Publisher's Synopsis
WINNER OF THE CWA/THE MACALLAN GOLD DAGGER FOR FICTION 1998 Detective Dave Robicheaux embarks on a painful journey into the past when he discovers his mother Mae was a hooker and ended her life drowned in a mud puddle by two cops working for the Mob. It is a journey which ends tragically on the edge of the bayou on Purple Cane Road. Along the way Robicheaux and his partner Clete Purcell hook up with state governor Belmont Pugh, Johnny Remeta, a psychotic hit-man with an IQ of 160, and Jim Gable whose mansion stands at the head of Purple Cane Road, as inexorably Robicheaux tracks down his mother's killers...
