Srušeni limeni krovovi - (Roman iz serijala o Daveu Robicheauxu)

Dave Robicheaux, a detective from Iberia Parish, finds himself in such circumstances of cruel reality when he is transferred to New Orleans. At the very beginning of James Lee Burke's novel Tin Roofs, Hurricane Katrina has ravaged the city and the commercial district, leaving the residential areas teeming with shady types and lurkers of all kinds. There is no electricity in the city, the power lines have been completely cut, and New Orleans has been reduced to the level of medieval society. There is no law, no order, no help for the injured, no comfort for the victims, no salvation for the innocent victims. Corpses are floating in the flooded streets, dead bodies are entangled in the branches of trees destroyed by the flood. In the midst of such an apocalyptic nightmare, Robicheaux will have to find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest and a sadistic psychopath who may be more dangerous than all the criminals that roam the defiled city. The harrowing environment left behind by Katrina would prove ideal for Burke's almost biblical visions of good and evil—it seems almost as if he was waiting for a disaster of such magnitude to ignite the most poignant, raw, and powerful prose he ever wrote. Anger and pain seep between the lines of this most personal of Burke's novels. And possibly, as critics widely speculate, his best. Collapsed Tin Roofs is not only a brilliant crime novel, but the most powerful fictional chronicle of a disaster whose consequences America will struggle with for a long time to come. Complex characters and portraits of people in their best moments of solidarity, but also in their worst moral decay, all written in a unique writing style that far exceeds the boundaries of genre literature, are some of the best features of this cruel and truly human novel whose movie character is embodied by Tommy Lee Jones