title: Three Great Novels: Dixie City Jam; Burning Angel; Purple Cane Road
author:  James Lee Burke 
description: DIXIE CITY JAM When a Nazi submarine is discovered lying in sixty feet of water off the Louisiana coast, some troubled ghosts are ready to be released. A local businessman is offering Detective Dave Robicheaux big money to bring the wreck to the surface, but he is not the only one after the submarine and its cargo. A new spirit of hatred is abroad, and its embodiment is stalking Robicheaux's wife...BURNING ANGEL When Sonny Marsallas entrusts a mysterious notebook to Dave Robicheaux, a series of violent events is set in train. What did Sonny's girlfriend know that resulted in her murder? What are Sonny's connections with the Mob that finally lead them to send a hitman after Dave? BURNING ANGEL outstrips its crime thriller label to produce a rich, sardonic and terrifying portrayal of contemporary America. PURPLE CANE ROAD Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey to a murky past, when he his told that his mother, Mae, was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a puddle by two cops working for the Mob. Dave learns to confront and accept his mistakes as he tries to track down his mother's killers and bring them to justice.
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  An Orion paperback
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in Great Britain by
  
  
  Orion in 1994
  
  
  
  
  
  This paperback edition published in 1998
  
  
  by Orion Books Ltd, Orion House, 5 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H
  
  
  9EA
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 1994 James Lee Burke
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of James Lee Burke to be
  
  
  identified as the author of
  
  
  this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright,
  
  
  Designs and Patents Act 1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this
  
  
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  reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form
  
  
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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is
  
  
  available from the
  
  
  British Library.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 0 75281 651 9
  
  
  
  
  
  Typeset by Deltatype Ltd, Birkenhead,
  
  
  Merseyside
  
  
  
  
  
  Printed and bound in Great Britain by
  
  
  Clay