Heaven’s Prisoners is the second book in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series.
The release date of this novel was April 1, 1988 and was subsequently made into a movie starring Alec Baldwin, Teri Hatcher, Eric Roberts, Kelly Lynch and Mary Stuart Masterson.
Heaven’s Prisoners book description
Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous.
But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life — and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime.
Suddenly Robicheaux is confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since childhood; Rocque’s hungry Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense.
In a backwater world where a swagger and a gun go further than the law, Robicheaux and those he loves are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than them all…
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