General Information
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 Title:                  Purple Cane Road
 Author:                 James Lee Burke
 Read By:                Peter Bradbury
 Copyright:              2000
 Audiobook Copyright:    2001
 Genre:                  Speech
 Publisher:              Recorded Books
 Series Name:            Dave Robicheaux
 Position in Series:     11
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 Media:                  Tape
 Number:                 7
 Source:                 Library
 Condition:              Good

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         14
 Total Duration:         10:20:29
 Total MP3 Size:         213.18
 Parity Archive:         No
 Ripped With:            EAC
 Encoded With:           LAME 3.93
 Encoded At:             CBR 48 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
 Normalize:              None
 Noise Reduction:        None
 ID3 Tags:               Set, v1.1, v2.3

Book Description
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From Publishers Weekly

After the relatively lightweight Sunset Limited (1998), Cajun cop Dave-----
Robicheaux returns in a powerhouse of a thriller that shows Burke
writing near the peak of his form. Robicheaux faces his most personal-----
case yet, when a pimp puts him on the trail of the truth behind his
mother's long-ago disappearance. Meanwhile, he uncovers new evidence
in the case of death-row inmate Letty Labiche, who took a mattock to
the man who molested her as a child, state executioner Vachel
Carmouche. Burke parades the usual cast of grotesques: feckless
Louisiana governor Belmont Pugh; cold-blooded attorney general Connie-----
Deshotel; sleazy police liaison officer Jim Gable, who "keeps the
head of a Vietnamese soldier in a jar of chemicals"; and psychopathic-----
hit man Johnny Remata, who acts as all-around avenging angel. Wife
Bootsie's having had a fling with Gable drives Robicheaux into a
jealous fury more than once, while daughter Alafair's flirtation with-----
Johnny raises the temperature even higher. Old buddy Clete Purcell
doesn't have a lot to do, other than to contribute to the general
mayhem. Once Robicheaux learns that his mother fell afoul of a couple-----
of New Orleans cops in the pay of the Giacano crime family, it's a
simple matter of identifying the guilty pair and bringing them to
justice, or is it? Burke winds up an often convoluted and gratuitously-----
violent plot with a dynamite ending that will leave readers feeling
truly satisfied, if a bit shell-shocked.

