Heaven's Prisoners
By James Lee Burke
Simon & Schuster Audio
$17, 3 hours
ISBN 0671736086
Sukey's favorite of the month
Review by Sukey Howard
I've said it before, and I hope that I'll have occasion to say it again, writer James Lee Burke and reader Will Patton are an unbeatable audio combo. Heaven's Prisoners, an early Dave Robicheaux mystery, is one of the best I've heard or read. Living on the bayou, no longer a New Orleans police detective, successfully fighting his way out of an alcoholic hell, Dave witnesses a plane crash and inadvertently finds himself in another hell, caught in the maelstrom of a local drug dealer's brutal, conscienceless violence. But this crash also brings Alafer, a six-year-old Salvadorian orphan, into his life.
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