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A Phoenix/Orion Books UK trade paperback in very good condition. Covers show light wear to the corners with a remainder mark to the bottom edge. Pages are bright and clean throughout, free of any marks, stamps, or annotations, with no fanning to the fore-edge. Spine is uncreased. A clean, very good copy. Published by Phoenix, an imprint of Orion Books Ltd, London, in 2005, this UK paperback edition presents The Neon Rain — the first novel in James Lee Burke's celebrated Dave Robicheaux series, originally published in 1987, and winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America in 1989. Set in the Louisiana bayou country and the bars and back streets of New Orleans, the novel introduces Dave Robicheaux — New Orleans detective, Vietnam veteran, and recovering alcoholic — whose discovery of a young woman's body in the bayou draws him into a vast and lethal conspiracy connecting the New Orleans underworld, the CIA, and the drug cartels of Central America. Saturated with the heat, beauty, and moral complexity of Louisiana, it is the novel that launched one of the most acclaimed series in American crime fiction. Burke is a three-time Edgar Award winner, CWA Gold Dagger winner for Sunset Limited, Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, Grand Prix de Littérature Policière winner, and recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction — one of the most decorated writers in the history of the genre. Ships within Canada. All descriptions on this site are original and copyright Kathrin's Books. Reproduction without permission is prohibited.