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...Boston area. But not all spirits in the Yard were high. Some were skeptical about the size of the crowds and the magnitude of the celebrations. “A true fan stands outside in the cold and suffers for his team,” said Beau C. Robicheaux ’08. “Whereas a bandwagon fan shows up in the ninth inning to pop the champagne.” Nevertheless, the pride of the fans in attendance was obvious. As the revelry of the night reached its apex, Red Sox fans hoisted Papelbon?...
...author manages, more or less, to stay off the metaphorical sauce for the rest of the book. But other problems bedevil the story, which is the seventh of Burke's mysteries about Dave Robicheaux, a cop who belongs to A.A. The series shows signs of wear. Other Burke plots have been fanciful, but this one is too big and operatic for anything but a James Bond thunderation...
...Robicheaux, a down-home sort of fellow who runs a bait shop when he's off duty, is absurdly overmatched by the villains, a brother-sister pair of supernaturally brilliant, grotesquely evil neo-Nazis. Among the bit players are several Mafia capos who appear onstage every couple of chapters like burlesque clowns, for no purpose except to be kicked in the pants by Robicheaux and his ex-cop friend Clete; and a pair of career criminals, one Jewish and one Irish, who have been feuding since high school but who will kiss and make up in time to explain...
James Lee Burke won an Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for Black Cherry Blues, a 1989 novel about Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux, a recovering alcoholic and avenging angel. There's a New Age-ish twist to most of Burke's work. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead (Hyperion; 344 pages; $19.95) is haunted by not one but two ghosts: a black man Robicheaux saw murdered as a teenager whose corpse resurfaces, and a Civil War officer sometimes accompanied by battered but unbowed troops. Throw in the Mafia, visiting Hollywood moviemakers, a serial killer and such fillips...
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