Pegasus Descending
Pegasus Descending is a crime novel by James Lee Burke.
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| Author | James Lee Burke |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dave Robicheaux |
| Genre | Detective novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 2006 |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 368 pp |
| ISBN | 1501198580 |
| Followed by | The Tin Roof Blowdown |
Plot summary
Dave Robicheaux, once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War,[1] works as sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Trish Klein, a beautiful young woman, arrives to Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Robicheaux knows there's going to be trouble. Twenty-five years earlier, while drunk in Florida, Robicheaux witnessed her father, fellow Vietnam veteran Dallas Klein, executed by a group of cold-blooded robbers. Trish tries to bait Whitey Bruxal, the aging mobster responsible for Dallas's death. Meanwhile, Robicheaux investigates the apparent suicide of young co-ed Yvonne Darbonne. The two cases are linked. He and his longtime partner, former Marine and Vietnam vet, Clete Purcel try to prove it.
Release details
- 2006, USA, Simon & Schuster, New York, ISBN 1501198580
References
- James Lee Burke, Pegasus_Descending, Simon & Schuster, 2018, page 241: "The implications were not necessarily flattering. "I never shot anyone who didn't try to kill me first," I said, now defending a history of violence that went all the way back to Vietnam".