EPISODE · Jul 17, 2007 · 3 MIN
The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robichauex Novel by James Lee Burke
from News Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & Detective · host Salvatore Langosh
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robichauex Novel Series: #16 of Dave Robicheaux Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Mystery Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As The Tin Roof Blowdown begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed; New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/47035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Tin Roof Blowdown: A Dave Robichauex Novel Series: #16 of Dave Robicheaux Author: James Lee Burke Narrator: Will Patton Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 5 minutes Release date: July 17, 2007 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 48 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 7 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Mystery Dave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As The Tin Roof Blowdown begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed; New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city.
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