Pegasus Descending

2006 novel by James Lee Burke

Pegasus Descending

Author| James Lee Burke
Language| English
Series| Dave Robicheaux
Genre| Detective novel
Publisher| Simon & Schuster

Publication date

| 2006
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 368 pp
ISBN| 1501198580
Followed by| The Tin Roof Blowdown

Pegasus Descending is a crime novel by James Lee Burke.

## Plot summary

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Dave Robicheaux, once an officer for the New Orleans Police Department and before that a U.S. Army infantry lieutenant who fought in the Vietnam War,[1] works as sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, Louisiana. When Trish Klein, a beautiful young woman, arrives to Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, Robicheaux knows there's going to be trouble. Twenty-five years earlier, while drunk in Florida, Robicheaux witnessed her father, fellow Vietnam veteran Dallas Klein, executed by a group of cold-blooded robbers. Trish tries to bait Whitey Bruxal, the aging mobster responsible for Dallas's death. Meanwhile, Robicheaux investigates the apparent suicide of young co-ed Yvonne Darbonne. The two cases are linked. He and his longtime partner, former Marine and Vietnam vet, Clete Purcel try to prove it.

## Release details

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* 2006, USA, Simon & Schuster, New York, ISBN 1501198580

## References

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1. ^ James Lee Burke, Pegasus_Descending, Simon & Schuster, 2018, page 241: "The implications were not necessarily flattering. "I never shot anyone who didn't try to kill me first," I said, now defending a history of violence that went all the way back to Vietnam".