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Original Title:	The Tin Roof Blowdown
ISBN:	1416548483 (ISBN13: 9781416548485)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dave Robicheaux #16
Characters:	Dave Robicheaux
Setting:	New Orleans, Louisiana(United States)
Literary Awards:	Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2008)

The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux #16)

James Lee Burke

Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 13141 Users | 850 Reviews

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This is James Lee Burke's latest mystery featuring Dave Robicheaux. It is also much more than that. The story begins with the shooting of two would-be looters in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and then follows a motley group of characters - from street thugs to a big-time mob boss, from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath - as their stories converge on a cache of stolen diamonds, while the storm turns the Big Easy into a lawless wasteland of apocalyptic proportions. The nightmarish landscape created by Katrina seems the perfect setting for Burke's almost Biblical visions of good and evil - it is as if he had to wait for this disaster to find the occasion to match his emotionally supercharged prose. You can feel the undercurrents of rage and pain beneath the narrative, making this not only his most personal and deeply felt book for some time, but quite possibly his best novel to date. This is not just a superb crime novel, it is potentially THE fictional chronicle of a disaster whose human dimensions America is still struggling to process.

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Title	:	The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux #16)
Author	:	James Lee Burke
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 373 pages
Published	:	September 17th 2007 by Simon & Schuster (first published July 17th 2007)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Audiobook. Detective

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Ratings: 4.17 From 13141 Users | 850 Reviews

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It's always the poor that pay.My favourite JLB and my best book of the first decade of this century.

James Lee Burke's "Dave Robicheaux" books follow a fairly similar formula. I've read most of them, so I know.Here's what you can expect:1) There will be multiple grisly deaths.2) Dave will reflect on his time in Vietnam and his time as an alcoholic.3) Dave's old partner, Clete Purcel, will stumble through the case like a wet elephant, trying to do good and silence his inner torment.4) There will be at least one mobster...some are colorful...some are dangerous...most are both.5) All the murders

What a disappointment. I had not read Burke's work before, but he is a highly regarded noir writer, and I had it on good authority that this was one of his best novels. Set in New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina, it seemed to have a lot of dramatic potential. What a colossal waste of time this book was. I wanted to give it up, but I kept thinking that something would improve, and then I reached the point at which I just wanted to find out the mystery.I won't say Burke is a bad writer.

I have been reading all of the books in the Dave Robicheaux series since the beginning of the year. I have enjoyed them all. James Lee Burke's prose is rich and lyrical. His characters are vivid and come alive and you become immersed in the story. Even if you have never been to New Orleans or Southern Louisiana you will come to know it, to taste the foods, hear the music, see the sunrise on the bayou, or listen to the the rain on a tin roof. I knew that this story dealt with Hurricane Katrina

Oh lordy yes! Detective Dave Robicheaux and Hurricane Katrina...what better combination of natural forces could be better calculated to lay waste the Big Easy?James Lee Burke continues his stellar writing in yet another Robicheaux novel. If you've ever read any of Burke's writings, I'm preaching to the choir. If you haven't, you pitiful wretch, rectify the situation immediately and get thee to a bookery! This man writes with more power and pain than anyone I know of. He is simply our best writer

So much more than a police procedural! This is James Lee Burke's elegiac for America in the aftermath of Katrina. So much rage and pain, but also a great story and characters who are trying to carry on despite the disaster, despite finding they didn't live in the country they had thought. The writing is so much better, the ideas so far surpass what you would find in an average detective mystery, that James Lee Burke should be up for literary prizes at the same time he writes a great page-turning