Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam with killers and hustlers with police brass and with the bottle. Lost without his wife's love Robicheaux's haunted soul mirrors the intensity and dusky mystery of New Orleans' French Quarter -- the place he calls home and the place that nearly destroys him when he becomes involved in the case of a young prostitute whose body is found in a bayou. Thrust into the world of drug lords and arms smugglers Robicheaux must face down a subterranean criminal world and come to terms with his own bruised heart in order to survive.
