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rsdsharp

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17. I'm reading The Hadacol Boogie, the latest Dave Robicheaux novel by James Lee Burke.

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Sun Feb 15, 2026, 01:34 PM

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It’s set around the year 2000. I’m only about a third of the way through, but it strikes me as a typical Dave and Clete story.

His recent works have involved the occult and macabre themes to a great degree, but this one is more “normal;” as normal as a novel can be by a man who has written things like “In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead.”

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