The events changed forever the city that its inhabitants happily called The Big Easy, Sin City or The Great Whore of Babylon, the spiritual home of jazz and rock '*' roll, immortalised on scratchy old records by Fats Domino, Freddy Cannon, Gary "US" Bonds, Doctor John and literally hundreds more. The city was ravaged twice by the forces of nature, and the aftermath seemed like the end of days for so many people and their property. But not all the TV reports I saw, or the acres of newsprint I read about the disaster brought home the horror of what happened like this book does. Burke's last book, Pegasus Descending, ended as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita advanced on New Orleans, and I looked forward to him writing about what happened next.Īt the time of the disaster, sitting comfortably thousands of miles away, anyone like me who had ever visited New Orleans, or even those who hadn't, couldn't avoid being shocked as the story unfolded. It's been a long time since a crime novel made every hair on my body stand on end. It's been a long time since a crime novel made me cry.
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