The Tin Roof Blowdown

Resumen del libro

New Orleans is awash with corpses after Hurricane Katrina unleashes its awesome power. In a city patrolled only by looters, all law and order gone, the survivors wait in trees or on rooftops for help that never comes.
In a landscape transformed into a violent wasteland, Dave Robicheaux must investigate the shooting of two looters and find out why some very dangerous people are hunting a third. Is it because they unwittingly ransacked the house of a notorious mob boss? Or did a chance encounter with the father of a raped girl seal their fate? As Robicheaux starts to uncover a ruthless tale of greed, torture and murder, his own family comes under threat from a sinister psychopath, and the devastated city provides the perfect stage for a final confrontation between good and evil.

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.