Dimensions
150 x 230 x 30mm
Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past when he is told that his mother Mae was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob.
It is a journey which begins when Mae boarded the Sunset Limited train to Hollywood and ends tragically one stormy night on the edge of the bayou on Purple Cane Road. Along the way Robicheaux and his partner Clete Purcell hook up with state governor Belmont Pugh, a six-foot preacher who has made it all the way from door-to-door salesman to the carnival world of state politics; Johnny Remata, a psychotic hit-man with an IQ of 160 and an unnerving ability to walk through doors; and Jim Gable whose mansion stands at the head of Purple Cane Road and whose intimate knowledge of Dave's wife Bootsie is yet another cross Robicheaux must bear as, slowly and inexorably, he tracks down his mother's killers and brings them to justice.
