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Written by James Lee Burke - audio book performed by Will Patton - Abridged Fiction - 6 COMPACT DISCS - 7 hours

Publisher, Simon & Schuster (September 2003)

2004 Audie Award Winner for 'Best Solo Narration - Male' Audiobook, presented by the Audio Publishers Association for excellence in audio publishing.

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For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. To return there means visiting old ghosts and opening himself to new, yet familiar, dangers.

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.

Meanwhile, back in New Iberia, three local teenage girls are killed in a drunk driving accident. Robicheaux traces the source of the liquor to one of New Iberia's "daiquiri windows," places that sell mixed drinks through drive-by windows. When the owner of the drive-through operation is brutally murdered, Robicheaux immediately suspects the grief-crazed father of the dead teen driver. But his assumption is challenged when the murder weapon turns up belonging to someone else. 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.

A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature Last Car to Elysian Fields is James Lee Burke in top form.

About the Author: James Lee Burke has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his novel The Last Get-Back Boogie was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He won the Edgar Award in 1989 for Black Cherry Blues. His two most recent novels, Dixie City Jam and Burning Angel, have been New York Times bestsellers. He divides his time between Missoula, Montana and Louisiana.

About the Performer: Will Patton is a seasoned stage and screen actor. Off-Broadway, he played the leading role in Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind and his performances in What Did He See and Fool For Love each earned him the prestigious Obie Award for Best Actor. Mr. Patton's film credits include The Client, No Way Out, Desperately Seeking Susan, Silkwood, After Hours, Cold Heaven, In The Soup, and Copycat. He has read extensively for Simon & Schuster Audio.