recovering alcoholic and is portrayed here by alec baldwin. >> i want to drink all the time. all those colored bottles. >> the subject now of two motion pictures and 20 novels, robicheaux tormented by alcoholism and depression, is a two-fisted st. augustine quoting lawman who patrols the demimonde, damaged but following the unerring compass. >> this character is based on the everyman character in the medieval morality and religious dramas. but also, primarily i see his antecedent as the good night in chaucer's canterbury's tales. there's a peace maker in the pilgrimage. >> that pilgrimage says burke is what defines good literature.