A Morning for Flamingos
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A Morning for Flamingos
by Authors:
James L. Burke
Released: 01 August, 1991
ISBN: 0380713608
Paperback
Sales Rank: 89684
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Customer Review #1:
 BURKE DOES IT AGAIN...
In this installment of the Dave Robicheaux series, James Lee Burke again paints a rich tapastry of the failings and triumphs of the human spirit set against the backdrop of southern Louisiana. As is true in his other novels, Burke uses his standard plot woven around career criminals, the disenfranchised,and the poor with a violent psychopath or two thrown in for good measure, to explore the complexity of human relationships and how and why past experiences can motivate us, even subconsicously, to behave in certain ways. All of Burkes characters are fully formed, three dimensional people that I felt like I knew by the end of the book. There wasnt a card board cutout among them. No body is ever really quite as good, or bad, as they initially seem( well, except for Jimmie Lee Boggs). I have read his books out of chronological order, and I do think there has been some drop off in recent years. Maybe this is due to building too many stories around the same basic plot of gangsters, low lifes, and crazed hitmen, or maybe now that Dave is married to Bootsie and has been in the same job for several novels, there hasnt been any room for any major new plot twists. Hopefully, Burke can explore Robicheauxs relationship with his daughter Alafair more as she becomes a young adult.
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Customer Review #2:
Louisianas Finest
Being a Southern California-based mystery author with my debut novel in its initial release, I realize that there is quite a bit of debate about which crime fiction author best captures the ambience of my native SoCal. There is no debate involving Louisiana. James Lee Burke is clearly the master, and I believe A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS is Burkes strongest work. Dave Robicheaux is left for dead during a prison escape, yet he doesnt die. He ends up back on the New Iberia police force going after a drug-kingpin named Tony Cardo. Clete Purcel tags along to guard Robicheauxs back, and they wouldnt mind catching up with the man who nearly killed Robicheaux. A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS has a marvelous plot and well-drawn characters. Reading this book is like visiting that fabulous state of mind known as Louisiana.
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Customer Review #3:
Theres not a finer crime/mystery author writing today.
Over the last 15 years, James Lee Burkes character of Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux has been established as one of the best and most intriguing in modern crime fiction. The intrigue continues in the fourth book of the Robicheaux series, A MORNING FOR FLAMINGOS. This time we find Dave critically wounded and his partner killed after a prisoner transport goes awry. After his recovery, Dave is sent undercover by the DEA to try to bring down a drug dealer from his old stomping ground, New Orleans.Daves old homicide partner Clete Purcel is a big part of this novel, as well as the rest of the series, and is the no-holds-barred sometimes law-bending character that Robicheaux fans are used to. We also find another appearance from DEA agent Minos Dautrieve, who had a big role in the earlier Burke novel (and subsequent film starring Alec Baldwin) HEAVENS PRISONERS. These two, along with all the others surrounding the story, provide a great story for the reader. The story is believable, the characters are believable, and at times the reader really starts to sympathize with people in the story that you are really not supposed to be cheering for! Nothing registers with a reader quite like a character with feelings, and these characters really come across that way. Ive read several of the Burke/Robicheaux novels and this is right up there at the top of the class.
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