James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross (USA 2018) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross. A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 9781501198137 (January, 2018), 325 p., $16.00.
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James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross (UK 2006) From the Publisher: That was many years ago. Now, an older, well-worn Dave walks into Baptist Hospital to visit a man called Troy Bordelon, who wants to free himself of a dark secret before he dies. A bully and a sadist, he has a lot to confess to - but he chooses to talk about a young girl, a prostitute who he glimpsed briefly as a kid, bloodied and beaten, tied to a chair in his uncle's house... James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross. Phoenix Books, ISBN: 0753820935 (August, 2006), 353 p., £6.99.
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James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross (USA 2006) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross. A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0743277201 (August, 2006), 483 p., $7.99.
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James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross (UK 2005) From the Publisher: A bully and a sadist, he has a lot to confess to - but he chooses to talk about a young girl, a prostitute who he glimpsed briefly as a kid, bloodied and beaten, tied to a chair in his uncle's house. Dave realises he can't let the past go. Ida's killers are still out there. So he begins his journey into the past - back to the summer of 1958 and a girl called Ida Durbin. James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross. Orion Books, ISBN: 075287215X (August, 2005), 325 p., £12.99.
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James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross (USA 2005) From the Publisher: For Dave Robicheaux, life in Louisiana is filled with haunting memories of the past -- images from Vietnam, the violent streets of New Orleans, and his own troubled youth. In Crusader's Cross, a deathbed confession from an old schoolmate resurrects a story of injustice, the murder of a young woman, and a time in Robicheaux's life he has tried to forget. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin. It was back in the innocent days of the 1950s when Robicheaux and his brother, Jimmie, met her on a Galveston beach. She was pretty and Jimmie fell for her hard -- not knowing she was a prostitute on infamous Post Office Street, with ties to the mob. Then Ida was abducted and never seen again. Now, decades later, Robicheaux is asking questions about Ida Durbin, and a couple of redneck deputy sheriffs make it clear that asking questions is a dangerous game. With a series of horrifying murders and the sudden appearance of Valentine Chalons and his sister, Honoria, a disturbed and deeply alluring woman, Robicheaux is soon involved not only with the Chalons family but with the murderous energies of the New Orleans underworld. Also, he meets and finds himself drawn into a scandalous relationship with a remarkable Catholic nun. Brilliant, brooding, and filled with the author's signature lyricism, Jim Burke's latest novel is a darkly suspenseful work of literature. James Lee Burke: Crusader's Cross. A Dave Robicheaux Novel. Simon & Schuster, ISBN: 0743277198 (July, 2005), 325 p., $25.95.
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