About “Heaven's Prisoners”
Heaven's Prisoners is a crime novel by James Lee Burke, published by Simon & Schuster in 1988. The story centers on Dave Robicheaux, a retired police officer and army lieutenant, who takes on the responsibility of protecting his wife and a plane-crash survivor from a local drug kingpin. It is the second book in Burke's series featuring Robicheaux and was later adapted into a film in 1996. The novel highlights themes of justice, loyalty, and personal sacrifice. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)