Pelikan: love, redemption & felony theft : a novel of the French Quarter

The Story

'Pelikan is one of the rarities of modern fiction: rousing and well written, a book with humor that never insults intelligence even as it outrages propriety. The journey begins when thirty-three-year-old Charlie Curtis travels to New Orleans on a deathbed assignment from his father to find the father's half-brother - James Joseph Pelikan, who rules the French Quarter from midnight until dawn in places where tourists seldom venture.