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James Lee Burke

    5 de diciembre de 1936

    James Lee Burke es un autor estadounidense aclamado por sus personajes profundamente psicológicos y sus escenarios atmosféricos. Sus novelas de misterio profundizan en temas de culpa, redención y ambigüedad moral, mientras sus protagonistas luchan con demonios personales y las duras realidades de su mundo. El estilo distintivo de Burke se caracteriza por su prosa lírica y agudas observaciones sobre la naturaleza humana, ofreciendo a los lectores una experiencia rica y cautivadora. Su obra, profundamente influenciada por grandes literarios como Faulkner, explora las complejidades de la vida en tiempos turbulentos.

    James Lee Burke
    House of the Rising Sun
    Swan Peak
    The Glass Rainbow
    Book of Bravery
    Wayfaring Stranger. Fremdes Land, englische Ausgabe
    Three Great Novels
    • A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their execution goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the DEA to go undercover into the torrid depths of New Orleans. He becomes irrevocably caught up in the nightmarish web surrounding Mafia don Tony Cardo and must pit himself against his own worst fears in order to survive. A STAINED WHITE RADIANCE A bullet shot through the window of Weldon Sonnier's house propels Dave Robicheaux back into the lives of a family he's not sure he wants to be reacquainted with. Weldon Sonnier's CIA-influenced past has led to dangerous connections. As Weldon puts himself in the line of fire, Lyle Sonnier, television evangelist and faith healer, reveals to Dave a violent family history that intersects menacingly with Dave's own. IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD When a movie crew arrives in New Iberia to shoot a Civil War epic, Dave Robicheaux finds that it's not just the bayou's living inhabitants that are being disturbed. As he hunts a sadistic killer targeting young prostitutes, evidence of an earlier murder is brought to light. The skeletal remains are the last echo of a crime Robicheaux himself witnessed almost forty years ago.

      Three Great Novels
    • In his most ambitious work yet, "New York Times" bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life. In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A confrontation with the outlaws ends with Weldon firing a gun, unsure whether it hit its mark. Ten years later, Second Lieutenant Weldon Holland barely survives the Battle of the Bulge, in the process saving the lives of his sergeant, Hershel Pine, and a young Spanish prisoner of war, Rosita Lowenstein--a woman who holds the same romantic power over him as the strawberry blonde Bonnie Parker, and is equally mysterious. The three return to Texas where Weldon and Hershel get in on the ground floor of the nascent oil business

      Wayfaring Stranger. Fremdes Land, englische Ausgabe
    • Book of Bravery

      A Novel 2,000 Plus Years in The Making

      • 314 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      The narrator, an outsider to the reader's world, offers a unique perspective on a hidden drama that almost led to catastrophe. Eager to share this untold story, they promise insights into events that could have changed everything. The narrative hints at intrigue and suspense, suggesting that the tale is both personal and significant, revealing layers of complexity in a situation that remains largely unknown to the reader.

      Book of Bravery
    • Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the eighteenth novel in James Lee Burke's classic series.

      The Glass Rainbow
    • After the devastating events recounted in THE TIN ROOF BLOWDOWN, Dave Robicheaux and his ex-partner in Homicide, Clete Purcel, head for the mountains and trout streams of Montana for some much-needed healing. However, while Montana might seem an unspoilt paradise peopled by men and women from an earlier, more innocent time in American history, Dave and Clete soon find that there are plenty of serpents in the garden too. The deaths of a couple of hikers suggest a perverted serial killer may be at work, while an escaped jailbird and his former tormentor are locked in a savage dance of revenge that is ultimately connected to the fortunes of a wealthy oil family hiding a terrible secret . . .

      Swan Peak
    • House of the Rising Sun

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      New York Times bestseller and 'one of the finest crime writer's America has ever produced' James Lee Burke returns with his latest masterpiece, the story of a father and son separated by war.

      House of the Rising Sun
    • In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

      • 344 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Back in print at last, James Lee Burke's suspense-packed sixth novel in his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series delivers a heart-pounding bayou manhunt--and features "one of the colest, earthiest heroes in thrilerdom" ("Entertainment Weekly "). When Hollywood invades New Iberia Parish to film a Civil War epic, restless specters waiting in the shadows for Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux are reawakened--ghosts of a history best left undisturbed. Hunting a serial killer preying on the lawless young, Robicheaux comes face-to-face with the elusive guardians of his darkest torments-- who hold the key to his ultimate salvation . . . or a final, fatal downfall.

      In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
    • Krimi. Robicheaux is recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he is visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After she's gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, "Creole Belle" on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of her. He finds instead the frozen corpse of her sister floating at sea. As he grapples with that mystery, an oil rig explodes on the Gulf threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Robicheaux then swings into action, leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect

      Creole Belle
    • Wayfaring Stranger

      A Novel

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast.

      Wayfaring Stranger