So, many of the descriptions are heartbreaking."The entire city, within one night, had been reduced to the technological level of the Middle Ages. You see, this book is set in New Orleans immediately before and after Hurricane Katrina. As beautiful as many of these scenes are, there are equal numbers of disturbing scenes. As you might expect, there are descriptions of lovely tree-lined streets and sunsets over the water. I love to gain a sense of place while reading, especially when it's somewhere I've never been. Burke spends a great deal of time detailing the surroundings, which I adored. The setting itself is really another character in the story.
The book is part of his Dave Robicheaux series, which is set in New Orleans. I'm not sure how much this book is like Burke's other work. I'm not sure what I expected, but I figured I would read it and forget it. I was pleasantly surprised with this read. This is the first James Lee Burke book that I've read, and I read this one because it was chosen for my face to face book club. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work. In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees.
There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society.
As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.
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