num_pages: 288
description: From New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes his definitive, must-read first title in his famous Dectective David Robicheaux series.New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with police brass, with killers and hustlers, and the bottle. Lost without his wife's love, Robicheaux haunts the intense and heady French Quarter—the place he calls home, and the place that nearly destroys him when he beomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the seedy world of drug lords and arms smugglers, Robicheaux must face down the criminal underworld and come to terms with his own bruised heart and demons to survive.
language: English
title: The Neon Rain
titlecomplete: The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)
characters: Dave Robicheaux
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Southern, Crime, Audiobook, Suspense
ratings_count: 25431
places: Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana
series: Dave Robicheaux
publisher: Simon  Schuster