The fourth book featuring Dave Robicheaux.
A routine assignment transporting two death-row prisoners to their executions goes fatally wrong, leaving Dave Robicheaux brutally wounded and his partner dead. Obsessed with revenge, Dave is persuaded by the Drug Enforcement Authority to go undercover into the torrid sleepy depths of New Orleans, a volatile world of mafia drug-running and Cajun voodoo magic.
Here, he becomes irrevocably ensnarled in the nightmare that is mafia don Tony Cardo's life, pitting himself against his own worst fears in a desperate attempt to recover his own sense of self.
