Heaven's Prisoners is a crime novel written by James Lee Burke and published by Simon & Schuster in 1988. The fictional work follows Dave Robicheaux, a retired police officer and army lieutenant, who finds himself in a situation where he must protect his wife and a plane-crash survivor from a local drug kingpin. Heaven's Prisoners is the second novel by James Lee Burke featuring Dave Robicheaux, and was adapted into a film in 1996.
Once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Armyinfantrylieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War,[1] Robicheaux is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug smuggler's plane crashes in a lake, right before their eyes. Robicheaux succeeds in rescuing a lone survivor, a Salvadoran girl, whom he and Annie quickly adopt and name Alafair. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Minos P. Dautrieve, however, tells Robicheaux that the plane was connected to Bubba Rocque, the leading drug kingpin in the area, and Robicheaux's childhood friend from New Iberia. Robicheaux must now defend Alafair and Annie from a world of murder and deception.[2]
Reception
Publishers Weekly said, "This is a mystery fans will savor for its ruminating intelligence and graceful prose as well as for its heart-stopping suspense."[3]Kirkus gave it a positive review but noted, "Despite careless plotting (constant but unresolved allusions to malfeasance by US Immigration), there is enough colorful action to keep readers turning the pages; but there is also altogether too much introspection by the self-hating, drowning-in-guilt Robicheaux."[4]
^James Lee Burke, Heaven's Prisoners, Simon & Schuster, 2018, pages 6-7: "I had seen drowning victims before, and their faces had the same expression as the faces of people I had seen killed by shell bursts in Vietnam".
^"Heaven's Prisoners". Publishers Weekly. April 1, 1988. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
^"Heaven's Prisoners". Kirkus. March 15, 1988. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
January 20, 2023
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