Books
September, 1994
After A Dozen well-written earlier mysteries, James Lee Burke nails down a breakthrough sizzler with Dixie City Jam (Hyperion). This book is based on the little known historical fact that during World War Two, Nazi submarines would wait at the mouth of the Mississippi River for oil tankers coming from Baton Rouge. In the Nineties, Dave Robicheaux, formerly with the New Orleans Police Department, is offered $10,000 to locate one of the sunken subs for a local Jewish businessman. This assignment p...
