The lost get-back boogie

By James Lee Burke

Subjects: Murderers, Blues, Fiction, general, Large type books, Montana, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Ex-convicts, Muscians, Young men, Paret, iry (fictitious character), fiction

Description: 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.