- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion Books
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1562828827
- ISBN-13: 978-1562828820
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 771 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #414,717 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The sky had gone black at sunset, and the storm had churned inland from the Gulf and drenched New Iberia and littered East Main with leaves and tree branches from the long canopy of oaks that covered the street from the old brick post office to the drawbridge over Bayou Teche at the edge of town. Read the first page
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The sky had gone black at sunset, and the storm had churned inland from the Gulf and drenched New Iberia and littered East Main with leaves and tree branches from the long canopy of oaks that covered the street from the old brick post office to the drawbridge over Bayou Teche at the edge of town. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
hot, steamy and dark,
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This review is from: In the Electric Mist With the Confederate Dead (Hardcover)
James Lee Burke always smacks right up against the crossover with "literature". His words carry you along until you are there feeling the oppressive Southern humidity oozing around you. I always feel like I am stationed back in Charleston South Carolina on a hot day. The man can write. James Lee Burke is one of the very few authors who can convey accurately exactly what it is like to be a drunk or a recovering drunk. Dave could fit in any meeting anywhere. Burke weaves it into the plots smoothly. Dave is Dave and he shares any recovering drunks worry of "What did I do to myself when I was drinking? And when will it show up?" In Electric Mists time gets suspended. Dave is working on cases tied to the past when he starts to think his drinking must have done some damage to his brain. He is understress and part of that is the threat to his family. He suspects he has "lost" it and the damage done by Alcohol is showing up under his stress. He feels he might be hallucinating. He is meeting with Confederate troops from the past. They seem real but they can't be for they have been dead for years. He chalks it up to his prior drinking bringing out these characters to discuss his case with him. After all they can't be real. Ghosts aren't real. If they are he is attune to something defying the reality in which he exists but if they aren't he has damage that will alter that reality anyway. A cop can't hallucinate and be a cop. As he searches for the answers the Confederates messages get more urgent to him. Past pulls on past and the far past until the final climax. Brain Damaged hallucinations? Dave is smart enough when he knows to keep the answer to himself for after all the past is past.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read!,
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This review is from: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
The first Robicheaux novel I've read, I plan to take on the others now. For anyone interested in this type of book, try McCrae's Bark of the Dogwood--equally disturbing, funny, and unusual. In the Electric Mist was fast moving and well-paced. Highly recommended.Also recommended: The Color Purple and Bark of the Dogwood
3.0 out of 5 stars
THANKS BUT NO THANKS!!!!,
By Mac Blair "Mac Blair" (Huntingdon, TN USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the sixth Dave Robicheaux book I have read. Trying to read them in order. This, to me, was not very good. Well, thats not really right. Some of it was so great and some of it was so bad. I guess thats the reason for the three rateing. I really liked the first five I read and will continue to read them as I don't think any more will be like this. This one had such catching names as Baby Feet Balboni and Twinky Herbert Lemoyne. This a fast moving book. I liked Dave's partner, Rosa Gomez, a stand up FBI agent. What I did not like was all the talk to the Confederate Dead. Come on. I know this is fiction and some is hard to believe, but this. Also, a friend who gets killed comes to Dave in a dream and tells him what to do. I really like Burke and Dave but this one is not to be believed.
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