The Glass Rainbow

Resumen del libro

When Dave Robicheaux gets the call saying his ex-partner Clete Purcel is in jail for felony assault and resisting arrest, bailing him out is instinctive. After all, Clete is the man who saved Dave's life by carrying him down a fire escape with two bullets in his back. But Clete's latest escapade isn't just worrying because it shows his demons are gaining the upper hand; it also brings some of those demons into Dave's life, in the most personal way possible. The man Clete assaulted, a big-time pimp and meth dealer called Herman Stanga, is a suspect in the murder of a series of young women - but his criminal activities are hidden behind his involvement in the St Jude Project, a charity aimed at getting young women off the streets. As Dave probes the charity further, he finds that its main sponsor is a man called Calice Abelard, the smooth-talking scion of a wealthy family, and a man whose motives Dave instinctively mistrusts. He also happens to be Dave's daughter Alafair's boyfriend.

Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer, while trying to protect his daughter from a boyfriend with a dark side, in the latest in James Lee Burke's classic series.

Biografía del autor

(Houston, 1936) es un conocido escritor norteamericano de novela negra. Graduado en Lengua Inglesa por la Universidad de Missouri. Ha sido premiado en dos ocasiones con el Edgar Award, recibió el Grand Master Award de la Asociación de Escritores de Misterio de América en 2009, y ha sido nominado al Premio Pulitzer. RBA ha publicado una de sus obras más aclamadas, El huracán (SN, 26), ambientada en el desastre del Katrina. Dos obras suyas han sido llevadas a la gran pantalla: En el centro de la tormenta, protagonizada por Tommy Lee Jones, y Prisioneros del cielo, con Alec Baldwin a la cabeza del reparto.