Last Car to Elysian Fields/ Dave Robicheaux, Book 13 – Audiobook Online
Last Car to Elysian Fields is a literary fiction book by author in the Dave Robicheaux series by author James Lee Burke.
For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy way home. New Orleans, the memory of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him.
When Robicheaux, a police officer based in the quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan has been the victim of a particularly brutal attack, he turns back. New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially.
Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk driving accident. Robicheaux traces the alcohol’s origins to one of New Iberia’s “daiquiri windows,” which sell mixed drinks through a drive-through window. The owner of the brutally murdered drive-through operation, Robicheaux immediately suspects the dead teenage driver’s grieving father. He is challenged when the murder weapon turns out to belong to someone else. Linking these disparate threads together is a crazed killer named Max Coll, a deeply haunted assassin sent to New Orleans to complete Dolan’s father’s job.
Dave Robecheaux’s life has moved on considerably since the ‘Jolie Blon’s Bounce’ episode. He is now a much more contemporary figure in ‘Last Car to Elysian Fields’ by James Lee Burke. It is always easy for a character to have no firm time boundaries but this time Burke is keen that we readers will have no doubt about the time of events in his latest novel. Burke has performed something that must be difficult, he has created a void, a space left by Burke’s deceased partner Bootsie. This void has a gravity all of its own and its target is poor Dave.
This time its not the despair of an alcoholic but rather the mourning and loss a partner must travel through, and hopefully come out the other side. The story has a pace that keeps one hooked as Dave and Clete explore the backround to a rich Louisiana business man. Dave’s search is centred in the past where he discovers the reasons behind a prisoners disappearnce. As usual Clete is in the present trying to counsel Dave through his bereavement, as well as acting as a sort of human exocet device without any stealth technology. In an earlier novel Dave met a character called Legion who managed to both outsmart Robecheaux at one point and leave a kiss firmly planted on Dave’s lips. Whatever one makes of that incident remains to be seen, however in the present novel Dave is humiliated in a far more personal attack.
These strange and disturbing encounters seem part of a greater plot that Burke is planning that fails to fill one with anticipation. There is relatively little of Burke’s rich and descriptive prose describing the Louisiana environment this time around. It is this talent that has, I believe, made the novels so addictive. So there may be a sea change taking place, a turbulence that is in itself unpredictable in its effects on the characters. In spite of these observations, a great read.
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