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A Private Cathedral

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
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After becoming embroiled in one of Louisiana's oldest and bloodiest gangland feuds, Detective Dave Robicheaux must battle the most terrifying adversary he has ever encountered....

The merciless Shondell and Balangie families are long-time enemies in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet their youngest heirs, Johnny and Isolde - star-crossed teenage lovers - have run away together. As he tried to uncover the reasons why, Robicheaux gets too close to both Isolde's mother and her father's mistress.

In retribution, Balangie - as jealous as he is cruel - hires an assassin to hunt Robicheaux and his long-time partner, Clete Purcel. This hitman is unlike any the two have ever faced - able to materialise without warning and to introduce horrifying hallucinations in his victims. In order to defeat him and rescue the young lovers, Robicheaux will have to overcome the demons that have tormented him his whole life....

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“America’s best novelist.” (The Denver Post)

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Well, we have read into the words for so long, that evil and wonder is around us. It came to be in this book. Not like any story before from James Lee Burke.
A grand finale

All his fears

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if you're a fan great, if you've never heard of James Lee Burke a good introduction. Fantastic narrative and storytelling. Strong characters good and bad...well worth the time

Stunning Listerning

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Another exceptional story, written in Burke’s lyrical and individual style. The narrator could not be more suited to reading drama of this calibre.

Always breathtakingly brilliant.

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I’ve read and listened to quite a lot of Burke’s books now, and this has got to be his worst. Tired cliches, idiotic metaphors, combined with a plot straight out of a 1970s Scary Story graphic novel.

Perhaps I’m just tired of his stuff now, it’s just regurgitated material.

Badly written, silly storyline

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Great story, as Clete and Dave confront existential questions about evil. Very topical and relevant to the current administration in USA. The language is as rich and lyrical as always and the narration is superb.

JLB never disappoints

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