One can see, smell and taste the
America of which he writes'
Times Literary Supplement
The Convict and Other Stories will be enthusiastically welcomed by the fans of James Lee Burke and his Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. Twelve tales of the American Deep South and its people - lush and mysterious, dripping with atmosphere like rain in the hidden shadows of the Louisiana mangrove.
'Burke's most evident strengths are two: the luminosity of his writerly voice, and the rich, vivid, fascinating terrain of Southern Louisiana which that voice renders with both love and despair... James Lee Burke is something special'
Washington Post