While the trappings indicate an ancient setting, the Enterprise’s computer, life support, and other vital systems are all still functional. Crusher in TNG’s “Remember Me,” where no one else recognized what was truly happening? Has the doctor found himself the victim of a situation similar to the one faced by Dr. Enterprise-D crew’s venture into Sherwood forest in TNG’s “Qpid,” the elaborate costumes come with altered personalities for the Enterprise’s entire complement, save for M’Benga.
#The elysian field the last star series
Anson Mount plays Rauth’s bureaucratic cowardice to perfection, sporting clothing whose flair would make Trelane from The Original Series episode, “The Squire of Gothos,” feel right at home. Perhaps there are even darker places for Dave to go?Still in all - I found this to be another page turner that I romped through.Only M’Benga recalls his true identity, as Pike and Ortegas believe themselves to be the Elysian Kingdom’s Sir Rauth and Sir Adya, respectively.
This appeals to a lot of readers, I think, whom like to see perpetrators of crime and violence, given their come uppance, when the "system" appears to be weighted in their favour, rather than the "ordinary" person. No doubt this allows the character to dally without attracting a further stigma of adultery and introduces a cast of very colourful female players into the various scripts.I see Dave as a modern day Robin Hood, who dispenses his brand of justice upon the miscreants of colourful, Louisiana society along with his trusty sidekick Clete. One very dispensable associate of his are the wives, whom regularly meet with death by disease of violence and appear to be an item of disposable collateral. With the religous undertones in the book(s) - I think this could be achieved, without dispensing the core elements of his persona, and give the character a breath of unpredictability and new found flair.Still there would no doubt be, a legion of Dave Robicheaux fans, who would decry this as sacrelige and continue to enjoy the character's tunnel vision and violent path to destruction.
I think it is time - even given the character's advancing years - to give Dave a slightly new direction and slant. He is among my most cherieshed crime genre authors (along with: Michael Connelly (my favourite), John Connolly and a host of Britisih authors) and is immensely popular. This book is yet another in the series featuring Detective Dave Robicheaux of New Iberia and New Orleans in Louisiana.Although I am addicted to this character and all of his inherent flaws, the series is beoming a little stylised and predictable. Tying together these disparate threads is a maniacal killer named Max Coll, a deeply haunted hit man sent to New Orleans to finish the job of father Dolan.Ī masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature Las Car to Elysian Fields is James Lee Burke in top form. But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon turns up belonging to someone else. When the owner of the drive-through operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver. Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New Iberia's "daiquiri windows," places that sell mixed drinks through drive-by windows. Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk driving accident. When Robicheaux, a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he returns to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially.
To return there means visiting old ghosts and opening himself to new, yet familiar, dangers. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home.
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