Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, c1990.

Clutching the shards of his shattered life, Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux has rejoined the New Iberia police force. His partner is dead -- slain during a condemned prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Robicheaux critically wounded -- and reawakened the ghost of his haunted, violent past. Now he's trailing a killer into the sordid heat of the Big Easy, caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double-cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemy -- himself.