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    Dixie City Jam
    Dixie City Jam
    Dixie City Jam
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Dixie City Jam

    Written by James Lee Burke

    Narrated by Will Patton

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    From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.

    It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff’s office has known of its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving—but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.

    But decades later, a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, and Robicheaux’s knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first—and he’ll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.

    With colorful characters, flawless plotting, and devilishly clever dialogue, Dixie City Jam is a spine-tingling suspense novel you won’t want to miss!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 1, 1994
    ISBN9780743561440
    Author

    James Lee Burke

    James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

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    • 3/5
      As he approached the seventh entry in his more or less annual Dave Robicheaux series of Louisiana thrillers, James Lee Burke seems to have felt he had a problem to solve. After the digression into the magic realism of In the Electric Mist, a return to a more standard hard-boiled mystery would seem to be in order. But who would make an interesting villain? You can't just have an ordinary sociopath. It's always a sociopath.Wait! Let's make him a Nazi sociopath.Mmm, not enough. Let's make him a gay Nazi sociopath.No, wait--how about a gay Nazi sociopath who's a sadist and an expert torturer!But what would such a character want from Dave? Hmm, Dave dives--let's say there's a sunken Nazi U-boat drifting around the Gulf coast for the last fifty years, and only Dave knows where it is. And the gay sadist Nazi sociopath wants it because--well, he's a Nazi! And, of course, the U-boat is full of Nazi treasure, which U-boats are known to carry.The subtleties that make Burke's work interesting are mostly abandoned. Once again, there's an Italian mob family also involved. In every book, New Orleans has a new mob family that has always run things. Robicheaux always knows the leaders personally, and not infrequently, beats them up with something like impunity, which is usually explained as the result of pragmatism on the part of the criminals, although the same criminals are described as able to hold grudges for years and settle them in frightening and disgusting ways, regardless of surface appearance.Preposterousness, of course, is not a dealbreaker when it comes to thrillers like this. But it should be more artfully disguised. Burke has always been great at making things emotionally realistic, however over-the-top the situation. Yet in one scene, Robicheaux returns home after a particularly brutal session with the villain, and the effect on his wife and 12-year-old daughter of seeing him badly injured is never acknowledged. That's the kind of easy out I wouldn't have thought Burke would allow himself. I think Burke erred, a few books back, in giving his hero a wife, a small daughter, and a well-known home address, given the danger he's frequently in, and the meanness of the characters he contends with. Their characterization suffers, as it does here, as they repeatedly become targets to be protected.Has Burke put his real gifts aside and fallen into mere formula?
    • 4/5
      A much better entry in the Robicheaux series than the previous one. Excellent plot, realistic action, and some decent stakes. And the villain was likely one of the best seen in the series so far.
    • 4/5
      My first James Lee Burke and my first Dave Robicheaux. I was impressed by the quality of the prose, by its occasionally gentle insights into the human condition, by the evocative lyricism of the New Orleans setting and its language. Great characters, great pacing. I was utterly capitivated by the opening chapter, which describes Robicheaux's first encounter with the Nazi U-Boat, but this plot device eventually became as a silly as an Indiana Jones movie. Ultimately there are lots of silly things about this book, but it grabs you. Will probably read at least one more in the series, and more by Burke.
    • 4/5
      Clete Purcell goes off the beam in this one (and no! he doesn't do it everfy book), as Dave and he investigate what is so important nationally and inmternationally about a Nazi sub burfied off the coast of Louisiana, a leftoverf from the brfigade blockers the Nazi's sent here to destroy our war production.
    • 4/5
      Dave Robicheaux takes on some Nazis in what is not his best but still is another page turner by Burke. Reading this one there were some obvious gaps in logic by some of the characters. A beautiful nun? Where was Batiste the whole time and other. But, still a good Robicheaux novel with action and well written descriptive paragraphs.
    • 3/5
      This is the 7th in the Robicheaux series and once again Burke delivers a good story. I love his descriptions of New Orleans and Louisiana - you can almost feel the heat and sweat.Back Cover Blurb:It's out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast - a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office has known of its existence since childhood, when he was terrified by nightmares of the evil Nazi sailors just offshore. Then, as a teenager, he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving - but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave.But decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter, who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first - and he'll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.
    • 4/5
      I highly enjoyed this book. Between its setting in the jazz city of New Orleans and the washing up of a submarine the action is intense at times while reflective at others. It is a quirky kind of book, but I would definitely read it again.
    • 4/5
      Dave Robicheaux is a detective working in the New Orleans area of America. A sunken Nazi submarine has been discovered just off the Louisiana coast. Various factions are interested in raising it,including crime-bosses and Neo-Nazis. Robicheaux knows the approximate position of the sub and this knowledge brings him and his family to the attention of some very nasty people.This is my first reading of a book by James Lee Burke and I report with mixed feelings. The writing is without doubt superb with great descriptions of the area. My reservations are with the characters however. They are (with a couple of exceptions) whether hero or villain,completely and utterly vile ! The so-called good and law-abiding characters are just as likely to kill and maim,as are the bad guys.I am therefore in a quandery with this one - On one hand,here we have a obviously good writer who has produced a very readable and exciting book. On the other side of the coin we have one of those stories that leave a nasty taste in the mouth and characters with which one has little or no sympathy.Although the rating as given is not perfect , my 3½ is the nearest to my overall feeling with this one.
    • 5/5
      Under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast lies a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New Iberia Sheriff's office has known of its existence since childhood. Then, as a teenager, he stumbled upon the sunken sub while scuba diving - but for years he kept the secret of its watery grave. Decades later, when a powerful Jewish activist wants the sub raised, Robicheaux's knowledge puts him at the center of a terrifying struggle of conflicting desires. A neo-Nazi psychopath named Will Buchalter , who insists that the Holocaust was a hoax, wants to find the submarine first - and he'll stop at nothing to get Robicheaux to talk.
    • 3/5
      The story was tight but the narrator wasn't that good.