Dixie City Jam (Dave Robicheaux Book 7)

James Lee Burke should be called our Prose Laureate. His body of work is the direct descendant of William Faulkner and extends south from The Grapes of Wrath and west of Tobacco Road. He has raised to a position of honor the Bayous and the rivers of Louisiana, plus all the state has stood for, good people and bad, politicians and pirates, the great and the defeated by weather and mismanaged government, no matter if the un-surmountable is Federal neglect, or Statewide corruption or downright local hooliganism. The women freshen up and sweat ten minutes later, the men forget to shave because they're out in the dusk of an afternoon, to commit crimes in order to preserve the best in their environment and they do the best they can to weed out the truly intolerable But underneath the punishments, the men and the women understand and even love their bad guys because they grew up with them and they remember them when.. before hope was burned out of their eyes.Add to that the Creole lilt, the undulating music inherent in the caterwauling of the people who inhabit his pages, and one wonders if he will continue to write and enhance his body of work. If this writer had a Russian last name, Putin or not, Jones would be given parades in his honor every other week; but we, the USA as a country are too busy watering down our language and homogenizing our attitudes to please everyone..... while James Lee Burke moseys down to his shack on the creek, gets a cold drink from the cooler, checks on the fish haul for the day, and returns to his porch to dip a pen into the darkened blood which informs his work and thrills the careful and respectful reader. Read it all in the order in which it is written and you will enhance your own life. His books will never be dated, will always instruct by showing without shame the hardscrap life on the rivers of Louisiana.

I'm a fan of Burke' s writing & of his Dave Robicheaux series. This book begins with Dave diving off the shore off the Louisiana coast and investigating an old sunken Nazi submarine. As the story progresses numerous people are interested in it & other Nazi sunken submarines from WW 2 in and around the gulf area. Some are including a man named Hippo Brimstine,on obese leader of the Democrats in New Orleans, Tommy Lonighan , an Irish local entrepreneur with casino's and dealings with the local mob characters, the Calucci brother's. The most desirous of these submarines is the bad guy in the book Will Buchalter and his sister Marie Gilbeaux. They weave through most of the book causing chaos and destruction.I enjoyed the read.2-26-17. Terri Davis. Oklahoma City Ok

The story was solid, but the editing was horrendous. Missing punctuation, words randomly capitalized or not, numerous misspelled words, all of which take you out of the story.I love reading on my Fire and Kindle, I love the convenience of getting books immediately, I just get disgusted sometimes when I pay good money for what should've been a great reading experience and end up disappointed by the poor quality of the e-book's end presentation.

5 star writing, 3 star plot, 1 star characters. Dave Robicheaux is pretty much a sanctimonious thug and his buddy Clete is simply a thug. They seem redeemed somewhat by the fact that everyone else in the book is even more low rent (other than the obligatory little wife and sweet kid). Having said that, of course Burke is a fantastic writer and tries his best to pull the mess off. Not his best by any means.

A great book, but I find all the errors and lack of editing extremely distracting. He is a fabulous author and his work should be treated with respect.

Misplaced punctuation, mispellings, transposition errors - even the creation of new words (eg "sel-fritious." As near as I can figure, the definition of which must be an adjective describing one who feels entitled to inflict terror on others with the use of weaponized salt).I love this author. He writes poetic prose with a richness of language and hypnotic cadence like no other and he really didn't deserve to have his work presented so poorly.

Dixie City Jam is another great book in this series, and those who have grown fond of Dave and Clete will certainly find some thing to enjoy in this one. JLB's writing was fantastic as always. The reason this edition gets only 3 stars is because of the haphazard, ham-handed, slapstick conversion to Kindle. It's almost as if the publisher only recently learned of Kindle this year, and has rushed through the file conversion to maximize return. The errors are numerous, glaring and distracting. While I thrilled to see so many JLB titles on the Kindle, how about we spend a day or two proofing the conversion files and doing justice to the work of this fine writer?

Not mine

Robcheaux novels never fail to hit the target for me. Well written and the stories hang together beautifully. So evocative of the steamy south, and the ever present dangers that surround our hero. Some feel that the series is a little samey, but I don't care, I look forward to the next in line, which I am reading in order.

Good story, well paced although it is hard to understand how Clet Purcell has managed to get to the age he is? Notwithstanding, it a very enjoyable read and up there with "....Confederate Dead"

good

item as described very happy

Excellent!

as expected

Amazing as per all of his books

Another gripping tale featuring Dave Robicheaux. The author paints wonderful imagery of place and character, bringing the past history of Louisiana to the present day.

Can't go wrong with James Lee Burke

Zuerst: Das Buch ist eine englischsprachige Ausgabe, eigenartigerweise wurde dieses zu den Zeiten nicht ins Deutsche übersetzt, als noch andere Romane der Robicheaux - Reihe zuvor und danach hier in Deutschland erschienen sind.Zur Story: Ein vor der Küste Louisianas entdecktes Wrack eines deutschen U-Bootes aus dem 2. Weltkrieg weckt die Begierde von einigen ganz unterschiedlichen dubiosen Gestalten. Da Robicheaux das Wrack zufällig entdeckt hat, will man ihn überreden, nötigen und auch mit aller Gewalt dazu erpressen, die Lage des Wracks zu verraten. Um das zu erreichen, wird ihm selbst und seiner Ehefrau von einem Psychopathen ziemlich übel mitgespielt. Sein alter Kumpel Purcel wirkt am Rande in einer Fehde gegen einige Mafiosi in New Orleans auch wieder kräftig mit. Insgesamt ein abwechslungsreiches, sehr unterhaltsames Buch dieser Reihe.Sehr lobenswert ist zumindest die Tatsache, dass die bereits übersetzten Bücher von diesem Autor seit kurzem komplett als E-Book wieder erhältlich sind und darüber hinaus natürlich auch viele der englischsprachigen Ausgaben in dieser Form zur Verfügung stehen. Und Überraschung: Soeben konnte ich hocherfreut feststellen, dass völlig unerwartet der Heyne Verlag im Herbst tatsächlich wieder ein neues Buch des Autors in deutscher Sprache auf den Markt bringen wird ("Regengötter", jedoch nicht aus der Robicheaux - Reihe).Nebenbei einige Anmerkungen zum Kindle:Die Anschaffung des Kindle hatte bei mir auch etwas damit zu tun, dass ich dank eines einfach zu verknüpfenden Wörterbuches die Möglichkeit haben wollte, einige englischsprachige Bücher lesen zu können, die einfach nicht mehr ins Deutsche übersetzt werden. Durch diese Verknüpfung hat das insgesamt besser funktioniert, als ich es erwartet hatte. Ohne Übersetzungsfunktion und des schnellen Nachschlagens im Wörterbuch hätte dies für mich sonst keinen rechten Sinn gemacht. Nur musste ich feststellen, dass hier zumindest mein Kindle Exemplar (?) doch einige Macken zeigte. Mit der Zeit wurde die Wörterbuchfunktion immer langsamer, ein Neustart des Readers behob dann das Problem mehr oder weniger für eine gewisse Zeit. Was ab und zu wirklich nervig war ist die Tatsache, dass dieses Hin- und Herschalten dem Reader offenbar doch einge Probleme bereitet hat (ungewolltes plötzliches zurück und vorwärts blättern über mehrere Seiten, Einblenden von Funktionen, die gar nicht aufgerufen worden sind, ab und zu Aussetzen der Touchscreen Funktion). Das trübte doch etwas das sich ansonsten einstellende Vergnügen, mal ein nicht übersetztes Buch der Reihe lesen (und ausreichend verstehen) zu können.

Good quality; author speaks for himself. Certainly no complaints regarding packaging or delivery

My favorite author, bar none! I have yet to read a book written by Mr. Burke that I did not like!

Another great Robicheaux tale. The characters are more out there than any other author.And nobody does evil like James Lee Burke.

Very good read.