This is the first of the New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux series. Robicheaux has not had a stellar life. He has flashbacks of his traumatic time in Vietnam, he fights with his police superiors, his wife left him, and he is a recovering alcoholic. When an investigation of a dead prostitute leads him into the murky land of organized crime, drug and arms dealing things get gritty. He is assaulted, framed for murder, and force fed enough alcohol to knock him off the wagon. Yet in the midst of it all, he finds love with a woman who stays with him in spite of his troubles and threats to both their lives. I wasn't expecting the level of violence contained in this story but I kept reading and in spite of it all, I'm going to read more of the series. Even with the nastiness in the story, it made me long for another trip to New Orleans.
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