Wayne Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel calls for the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou while he looks for a quieter lifestyle.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is being successful his fight against booze, and has left New Orleans along with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash for the Gulf brings a young gal into his life-and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception, and homegrown crime. Suddenly Robicheaux is normally confronting Bubba Rocque, a brutal hood he’s known since years as a child; Rocque’s starving Cajun wife; and a Federal agent with more guts than sense. In a backwater globe in which a swagger and a gun go beyond the law, Robicheaux and the ones he enjoys are caught on a tide of violence far bigger than all of them…