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Authors: James Lee Burke

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Burke is the author of thirty-four novels, including twenty in the Dave Robicheaux series, and two collections of short stories. His work has twice been awarded an Edgar for Best Crime Novel of the Year; in 2009 the Mystery Writers of America named him a Grand Master. He has also been a recipient of Bread Loaf and Guggenheim fellowships and an NEA grant. Three of his novels (
Heaven’s Prisoners, Two for Texas,
and
In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead
) have been made into motion pictures. His short stories have been published in
The Atlantic Monthly, New Stories from the South, The Best American Short Stories, The Antioch Review, The Southern Review,
and
The Kenyon Review.
His novel
The Lost Get-Back Boogie
was rejected 111 times over a period of nine years and, upon its publication by Louisiana State University Press in 1986, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

He and Pearl live in Missoula, Montana.

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The Glass Rainbow

Swan Peak

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Last Car to Elysian Fields

Jolie Blon’s Bounce

Purple Cane Road

Sunset Limited

Cadillac Jukebox

Burning Angel

Dixie City Jam

In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead

A Stained White Radiance

A Morning for Flamingos

Black Cherry Blues

Heaven’s Prisoners

The Neon Rain

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OVELS

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Feast Day of Fools

Rain Gods

Lay Down My Sword and Shield

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ILLY
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OVELS

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Heartwood

Cimarron Rose

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ICTION

Jesus Out to Sea

White Doves at Morning

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To the Bright and Shining Sun

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Burke, James Lee.

House of the rising sun : a novel / James Lee Burke. —First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages ; cm

1. Texas Rangers—Fiction. 2. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 3. Voyages and travels—Fiction. 4. Grail—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.U723H68 2015

813'.54—dc23 2015012518

ISBN 978-1-5011-0710-8

ISBN 978-1-5011-0716-0 (ebook)

CONTENTS

Epigraph

Part 1: 1916

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Part 2: 1891

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Part 3: On the Marne, 1918

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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