Home    New Authors    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors    Series    Awards    
book cover of 

Crusader's Cross 

 (Robicheaux, book 14)

by

James Lee Burke

Crusader's Cross

(Book 14 in the Robicheaux series)
(2005)
A novel by

James Lee Burke

 

In the summer of 1958, Dave Robicheaux and his half-brother Jimmie are just out of high school. Jimmie and Dave get work with an oil company, laying out rubber cables in the bays and mosquito-infested swamps all along the Louisiana-Texas coastline. They spend their off time at Galveston Island, fishing at night on the jetties, the future kept safely at bay, the past drifting off somewhere behind them. But on the Fourth of July, change approaches in the form of Ida Durbin, a sweet-faced young woman with a lovely voice and a mandolin. Jimmie falls instantly in love with her. But Ida's not free to love - she's a prostitute, in hock to a brutal man called Kale, who won't let her go. Jimmie agrees to meet Ida at the bus depot, ready for the road to Mexico. But Ida never shows. Dave and Jimmie want to believe she skipped town, but they know, deep down, that Ida Durbin never got to leave. That was many years ago - before Dave Robicheaux began his long odyssey through bars and drunk tanks and skin joints of every stripe. Before the Philippines and Vietnam. Now, an older, well-worn Dave walks into Baptist Hospital to visit a man called Troy Bordelon, who wants to free himself of a dark secret before he dies. A bully and a sadist, he has a lot to confess to - but he chooses to talk about a young girl, a prostitute who he glimpsed briefly as a kid, bloodied and beaten, tied to a chair in his uncle's house. Dave realises he can't let the past go. Ida's killers are still out there. So he begins his journey into the past - back to the summer of 1958 and a girl called Ida Durbin.
 
Used availability for James Lee Burke's Crusader's Cross


See all available used copies of this book at: Abebooks UK or Abebooks US
 

 

Hardback Editions

October 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1597220620Title: Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 1-59722-062-0 / 9781597220620 (USA edition)
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

September 2005 : Leather Bound
Cover of ISBN: 1873567723Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 1-873567-72-3 / 9781873567722 (UK edition)
Publisher: Scorpion Press
Availability: Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

August 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0752872141Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7528-7214-1 / 978-0-7528-7214-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Orion
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   
More details...

July 2005 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0743277198Title: Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7432-7719-8 / 978-0-7432-7719-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

Paperback Editions

August 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753820935Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7538-2093-5 / 978-0-7538-2093-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Phoenix
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   
More details...

July 2006 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0743277201Title: Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7432-7720-1 / 978-0-7432-7720-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Pocket
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

July 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1594131155Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 1-59413-115-5 / 9781594131158 (USA edition)
Publisher: THOMSON GALE GROUP
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

April 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753820706Title: Crusader's Cross (OME): A Dave Robicheaux Novel
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7538-2070-6 / 978-0-7538-2070-4 (UK edition)
Publisher: Phoenix
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

January 2006 : Perfect Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1416517286Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 1-4165-1728-6 / 978-1-4165-1728-3 (USA edition)
Publisher: Pocket Books
Availability: Amazon   
More details...

January 2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B002DP9VOQTitle: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
Publisher: Pocket
Availability: Amazon UK   
More details...

2006 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1405620307Title: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 1-4056-2030-7 / 978-1-4056-2030-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Paragon
Availability: Amazon UK   
More details...

August 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 075287215XTitle: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7528-7215-X / 978-0-7528-7215-5 (UK edition)
Publisher: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

Audio Editions

July 2008 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0743572068Title: Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Author(s): James Lee Burke
ISBN: 0-7435-7206-8 / 978-0-7435-7206-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: Amazon   Amazon UK   Amazon CA   
More details...

Other Editions

July 2005 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000FCKA6CTitle: Crusader's Cross
Author(s): James Lee Burke
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Availability: Amazon   
More details...

 


Search for    

© 2009 FantasticFiction
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk