A BRUTAL LEGACY OF CRUELTY AND HATE IS AWAKENED IN THE BAYOU <br>When Sonny Boy Marsallus returns to New Iberia after fleeing <br>for Central America to avoid the wrath of the powerful Giacana <br>family, his old troubles soon follow. Meanwhile Dave <br>Robicheaux becomes entangled in the affairs of the Fontenot <br>family, descendants of sharecroppers whose matriarch helped <br>raise Dave as a child. They are in danger of losing the land <br>they've lived on for more than a century. <br>As Dave tries to discover who wants the land so badly, he finds <br>himself in increasing peril from a lethal, rag tag alliance of <br>local mobsters and a hired assassin with a shady past. And <br>when a seemingly innocent woman is brutally murdered, all <br>roads intersect, and Sonny Boy is in the middle. <br>With the usual James Lee Burke combination of brilliant <br>action and unforgettable characters, "Burning Angel" is <br>the author at his best -- showing that old hatreds and new <br>ones are not that far apart. <br>