Clete

A Dave Robicheaux Novel

De: James Lee Burke

Narrado por: Will Patton

In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave’s 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.

Clete Purcel—private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots—is Dave Robicheaux’s 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—his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold it.

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’s 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’ve imagined.

Gripping, violent, yet interlaced with Clete’s 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 “heavyweight champ” and “great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed” (Michael Connelly).

©2024 James Lee Burke (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Burke's is wealthiest hater of wealth I know

seemed like AI was used to generate a Dave Robicheaux novel. Clete wasn't the full Clete I, as a reader of the whole series, have loved.
Burke's is letting modern views of politics influence his writing.🙄

Will Patton IS Clete Purcell!!

Burke’s characters inhabit my dreams, and Will Patton’s personification of Robicheaux and Purcell have brought their world to life in my imagination. I simply cannot listen to anyone else: NO ONE is better than Patton!!!

"Cleat" was a favorite character of mine through nearly all of Burke's book.

It's good to get the quality of Burke's writing without all the conversations with dead civil war soldiers and the overbearing Catholicism. Clete is different, to me at least, than he was in the earlier books. He just seems like Dave in a pork-pie hat.

Clete & Dave are back!

James Lee Burke's stories are literary genius- his descriptions are an art form- please keep em coming

Clefs

The best of many stories by Mr Burke and Will Patton. They are top notch author and narrator!

Three Thumbs Up! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Love the characters in this world. The writing paints amazing scenes in your mind. Long live Clite!

interesting to focus a story on Clete

good story. lots of twists and turns. as usual the good guys came out on top.

Will Patton is Clete

Robicheaux stories are always great but if not for Pattons narration, Clete would have been a ho-hum listen. Let’s get back to Dave’s stories.

First JLB I've heard without the word "skillet!"

James Lee Burke is my favorite writer, hands-down, and I was so excited for this book. I have listened to every book in this series and almost everything else he has written. And while I don't think it's the best of the series, it's still excellent, colorful, and worth a listen.

Getting to spend so much time with Clete is a rare treat, but I have to agree with one reviewer who said that the voice sounded more like Dave than Clete himself. I only point this out becuase we've gotten to know Clete so well in all the other books, so it stood out a bit. Regardless, Dave and Clete are two sides of the same brilliant coin, and they complete each other. It was fun getting to hear Clete's take on how Dave needs protecting, Instead of the other way around, as we always hear in the other books.

I think this could have been a richer experience. Still though, we get a lot of insight and new perspective into the best character in a series that is packed with outstanding characters. And at the end, we even see a new side of him that we haven't seen before. It was also funny to hear Jl.B indirectly poke fun at himself as the writer of Flags On The Bayou (which is outstanding if you haven't read it/listened to it).

Will Patton, as always, hits it out of the park. I could listen to that man read the phonebook.

A stunning cultural and poetic book from an author who transcends the mystery/thriller genre into important literature.

Captures the extremes of human nature which we all struggle to understand. A unique work in this career long series.