Flags on the Bayou

Lee, Burke, James

£22.00

In the fall of 1863, the Union Army is in control of the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The retreating Confederate army is being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed – and did – as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle’s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah.

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Publish Date: 20/07/2023

Description

In the fall of 1863, the Union Army controls the Mississippi River and much of Louisiana, as the Civil War rolls on.

Wade Lufkin is a man without a country or a cause – an idle spectator since New Orleans surrendered, he now paints at his uncle’s plantation. That is until he finds an intriguing new subject…

Hannah Laveau is an enslaved woman who stands accused of everything from adultery to insurrection, from magic to murder. But all she wants is to find her missing son – and she will risk her life for it.

When Hannah goes on the run, she must dodge the calculating and merciless local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayou as she flees through Louisiana, from the cottonmouth snakes and tree-lined swamps to the dingy saloons of New Orleans.

From ‘the king of Southern noir’ (Daily Mirror) comes a powerful and deeply moving Civil War thriller – a story of tragic acts of war, lost and desperate people, and love enduring through it all.

PRAISE FOR JAMES LEE BURKE, THE AWARD-WINNING KING OF SOUTHERN NOIR:

‘James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed’ Michael Connelly

‘A gorgeous prose stylist’ Stephen King

‘No argument: James Lee Burke is among the finest of all contemporary American novelists’ Daily Mail

Additional information

Weight 536 g
Dimensions 236 × 162 × 32 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

310

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

813.54 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K