James Lee Burke’s Half Of Paradise was the first book to be published by the New York Times bestselling novelist.
This standalone story was published on January 1, 1965. The character Avery Broussard also appears in his short story Big Midnight Special.
Half Of Paradise book description
Meet Avery Broussard, the last in a line of once-substantial land owners whose weakness for alcohol lands him in prison; J.P. Winfield, a dirt-poor singer who makes it to the top of hillbilly music only to be destroyed by a drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a black longshoreman who is set up for a crime he did not commit.
What brings them together, and how they must struggle to escape the bondage that links them makes for a tale of atmosphere and suspense that is vintage Burke.
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