Tin Roof Blowdown Summary

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Tin roof blowdown summary.

A looting and shooting at the height of hurricane katrina s destruction sucks dave robicheaux pegasus descending 2006 etc into new orleans s purgatorial ordeal. In the tin roof blowdown new iberia police detective dave robicheaux finds himself in the heart of the hurricane katrina disaster when his department is temporarily assigned to rescue and response. The story begins with the shooting of two would be looters in new orleans during hurricane katrina and then follows a motley group of characters from street thugs to a big time mob boss from a junkie priest to a sadistic psychopath as their stories converge on a cache. As james lee burke s new novel the tin roof blowdown begins hurricane katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe.

This is the gruesome reality iberia parish sheriff s detective dave robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to new orleans. 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 now works as sheriff s deputy in new iberia louisiana. This is james lee burke s latest mystery featuring dave robicheaux.

After hijacking a boat from a junkie priest who was fighting to rescue a crowd trapped in a church attic by katrina s rising waters bail jumper andre rochon together with his teenaged cousin kevin and armed robbery specialists eddy and bertrand melancon runs into both good fortune and bad.