The Lost Get-Back Boogie - by James Lee Burke (Paperback)

About the Book

This first novel by "New York Times" bestselling author Burke--a long-out-of-print Pulitzer Prize winner---tells the story of a Korean war veteran and ex-con who tries to put the past behind him, even as he becomes embroiled in a heated political fight. Now available in this Premium Edition.

Book Synopsis

Recently paroled from prison, Iry Paret becomes drawn into a tragic conflict involving an ex-convict and their neighbors in this page-turning thriller from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Iry Paret's done his time--two years for manslaughter in Louisiana's Angola State Penitentiary. Now the war vet and blues singer is headed to Montana, where he hopes to live clean working on a ranch owned by the father of his prison pal, Buddy Riordan.

In prison, Iry tinkered with a song--"The Lost Get-Back Boogie"--that never came out quite right. Now, the Riordan family's problems hand him a new kind of trouble, with some tragic consequences. And Iry must get the tune right at last, or pay a fateful price.

Review Quotes

A bravura novel. -- Orlando Sentinel

America's best novelist. -- The Denver Post

Burke is a master. -- The Kansas City Star

Powerfully written. -- The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, two-time winner of the Edgar Award, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction. He has authored forty novels and two short story collections. He lives in Missoula, Montana.