{"id":35918,"date":"2024-06-06T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35918"},"modified":"2024-06-05T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:49:21","slug":"clete-a-dave-robicheaux-novel-by-james-lee-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35918","title":{"rendered":"CLETE: A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL by James Lee Burke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yQM1a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z060624clete_jlburke.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"737\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We are less than a week away from the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yQM1a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLETE: A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL<\/a> by James Lee Burke!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the synopsis&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave\u2019s partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clete Purcel \u2013 private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots \u2013 is Dave Robicheaux\u2019s longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to return to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels to Louisiana, it feels personal \u2013 his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just as Clete starts to trail the culprits, Clara Bow, a woman with a dark past hires Clete as a detective to investigate her scheming, slippery ex-husband, and a string of brutal deaths all link back to a heavily tattooed man who seems to lurk around every corner. Clete is experiencing shockingly lifelike hallucinations and questioning Clara\u2019s ulterior motives when he and Dave start to hear rumors of a dangerous substance with potentially catastrophic effects. The thugs who destroyed his car might have been pawns in a scheme far darker than they could\u2019ve imagined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gripping, violent, yet interlaced with Clete\u2019s humor and consistent drive to protect those he loves, Clete brings a fresh perspective to a truly iconic series. James Lee Burke proves yet again that he is the \u201cheavyweight champ\u201d and \u201cgreat American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed\u201d (Michael Connelly).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yQM1a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hardcover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4c7RKq9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are less than a week away from the release of CLETE: A DAVE ROBICHEAUX NOVEL by James Lee Burke!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35919,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35918\/revisions\/35919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}