Dave Robicheaux
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Dave Robicheaux is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by American crime writer James Lee Burke.
About Robicheaux
Once an officer for the New Orleans police department, Robicheaux constantly breaches the ethical code over the course of just about every case he works on - seemingly without consequence - and currently pursues cases in New Iberia, Louisiana. He is a recovering alcoholic whose demons stem from his service in the Vietnam War; he still experiences periods of savage depression and nightmares, which are only exacerbated by the murder of his wife Anne Ballard, a social worker. Recently, he has married the mobsters widow Bootsie, a lupus sufferer, and adopted the El Salvadorian orphan Alafair (the namesake of Burke's own daughter), after he saves her from the wreckage of an aeroplane.
Appearances in Movies
Robicheaux is played by Alec Baldwin in Heaven's Prisoners and by Tommy Lee Jones in In the Electric Mist.