The Bayou Trilogy - Grand Format

Collected for the first time in a single volume - three early works of crime fiction by a major American novelist. In the parish of St. Bruno, the women are fast, the men are faster, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of corruption - the stalwart presence that every crooked town sorely needs, especially this one. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, these three viscerally powerful novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father.
The Bayou Trilogy highlights the origins of a novelist of singular talent, a writer who across two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.