Amazon.com In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel， Dave Robicheaux， a former New Orleans policeman， is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche， in the heart of Louisiana， to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon， Robicheaux finds himself smack dab in the middle of an illegal Mafia takeover of Indian lands. As he struggles to expose the truth， he must face some hard facts about himself， especially after the appearance of an old Cajun friend， Dixie Lee Pughe. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly Burke pits a land-hungry oil company against a Blackfeet Indian reservation in a stunning novel that takes detective fiction into new imaginative realms. His Cajun sleuth， Dave Robicheaux， an ex-New Orleans cop featured in two previous novels， attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings， has recurrent nightmares about his murdered wife， and cares for an adopted El Salvadoran refugee girl. When two American Indian activists disappear， Robicheaux's dogged investigation not only sets him on a collision course with Mafia thugs and oil interests， but also leads him into a romance with Darlene American Horse， his ex-partner's girlfriend. All the main characters in this darkly beautiful， lyric saga carry heavy emotional baggage， and Robicheaux's sleuthing is a simultaneous exorcism of demons of grief， loss， fear， rage， vengeance. Burke's fictional terrain--stretching from the Louisiana bayous to Montana's red cliffs and pine-dotted hills--is uniquely his own， yet also a microcosm of a multi-ethnic America. He writes from the heart and the gut. 35，000 first printing; major ad/promo. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information， Inc. See all Editorial Reviews