James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (USA 2011) From the Publisher: While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. PURPLE CANE ROAD has the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surpises from start to finish. James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. Dell eBook, ISBN: 9780307807465 (September, 2011), 3666 KB (ca. 402 p.), $7.99.
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James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (UK 2010) From the Publisher: Robicheaux has been told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob. As Robichaeux and his partner hunt for the killers, they hook up with a door-to-door salesman turned state governor, a psychotic hit-man, and the owner of the mansion at Purple Cane Road - who knows rather too much about Robichaeux's wife... James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. Orion eBook, ISBN: 9781409132868 (November, 2010), 910 KB (ca. 402 p.), £4.99.
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James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (UK 2001) From the Publisher: Robicheaux has been told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob. As Robicheux and his partner hunt for the killers, they hook up with a door-to-door salesman turned state governor, a psychotic hit-man, and the owner of the mansion at Purple Cane Road- who knows rather too much about Robicheux's wife... James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. Orion Books, ISBN: 0752843346 (June, 2001), 360 p., £5.99.
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James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (USA 2001) From the Publisher: Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops. Dave Robicheaux was just a boy when his mother ran out on him and his whiskey-driven father. Now Robicheaux is a man, still haunted by her desertion and her death. More than thirty-five years after Mae Guillory died, her son will go to any length to bring her killers to justice. And as he moves closer to what happened that long-ago night, the Louisiana cop crosses lines of color and class to find the place where secrets of his past lie buried ... and where all roads lead to revenge - but only one road leads to the truth... James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. Dell Publishing, ISBN: 0440224047 (May, 2001), 387 p., $7.50.
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James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (UK 2000) From the Publisher: James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. Orion, ISBN: 0752825577 (August, 2000), 341 p., £12.99.
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James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road (USA 2000) From the Publisher: While helping out an old friend, Dave is stunned when a pimp looks at him sideways and asks him if he is Mae Guillory's boy, the whore a bunch of cops murdered 30 years ago. The pimp goes on to insinuate that the cops who dumped her body in the bayou were on the take and continue to thrive in the New Orleans area. Dave's search for his mother's killers leads him to the darker places in his past and solving this case teaches him what it means to be his mother's son. Purple Cane Roadhas the dimensions of a classic-passion, murder, and nearly heartbreaking poignancy-wrapped in a wonderfully executed plot that surpises from start to finish. James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road. A Novel. Doubleday, ISBN: 0385488440 (August, 2000), 341 p., $24.95.
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