Description
Pegasus Descending by James Lee Burke is the fifteenth novel in the Dave Robicheaux series, featuring the Louisiana detective in a deeply personal and dangerous investigation. When Trish Klein, a young woman spending hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, arrives in town, Robicheaux is reminded of a tragedy from 25 years earlier. He was too drunk to save his friend and fellow Vietnam veteran, Dallas Klein, who was murdered over gambling debts. Now Dallas’s daughter has appeared, and Robicheaux is determined to understand why.
His enquiries lead him to the apparent suicide of a young local woman whose life became entangled in a world of power, sexual exploitation and death. As old guilt and painful memories resurface, Robicheaux finds himself drawn into a case that threatens the peace he has worked so hard to build. A gripping crime novel of buried secrets, regret and dangerous consequences.
