A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOU

When Sonny Youngster Marsallus earnings to New Iberia after fleeing

for Central America in order to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana

family, his old problems soon follow. In the mean time Dave

Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot

family members, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped

raise Dave as a child. They are at risk of losing the land

they’ve lived on for more than a century.

As Dave attempts to discover who would like the land thus badly, he finds

himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of

regional mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past. And

whenever a seemingly innocent woman is brutally murdered, most

roads intersect, and Sonny Young man is in the centre.

With the usual James Lee Burke mix of brilliant

actions and unforgettable character types, Burning Angel is

the author at his best — showing that old hatreds and new

ones are not that much apart.