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Detective Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike go up against the New York mob while looking for the ex-wife and son of a Hollywood movie mogul. Non stop action and suspense.
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Crais is growing as a storyteller, best of the three in the series. The players are interesting as is the detecting dilemma, and it's fun seeing Elvis and Joe on the East Coast.
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This is the first book I have read by this author and I thought the book started out slow, but after the first few chapters I couldn't put the book down. I will definitely read another book by this author.
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Who doesn't love Elvis Cole? These Crais books are especially fun if you're from the LA area.
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A very good read. One of the better Cole novels
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Third in the sarcastic witted Elvis Cole novels. Gotta love him.
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Man, this is good stuff. Quintessential private eye Elvis Cole takes on Hollywood on one coast and the mafia on another, and even Spenser couldn't do it better. Can't miss!
Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the airhead wife and infant child the film-school flunkout dumped en route to becoming the third biggest filmmaker in America. It's the kind of case Cole can handle in his sleep--until it turns out to be a nightmare. For when Cole finds Nelsen's ex-wife in a small Connecticut town, she's nothing like he expects. The lady has some unwanted--and very nasty--mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening an East Coast branch of his P.I. office...at the bottom of the Hudson River.
Hollywood, and an erratic director, his millions and a missing wife makes this detective's job very dangerous
Another exciting outing for Elvis Cole.
Another action packed Elvis Cole by Robert Crais
The THIRD book in the series featuring Elvis Cole & Joe Pike, a pair of Hollywood private eyes in Los Angeles, California.
If you like Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, you'll love Elvis Cole.
My first experience with this author. I enjoyed the book more than I expected; the main character doesn't take himself too seriously and the supporting characters are well developed. It's more than fluff, but not so heavy (and depressing)as many mystery/action novels that are out there.
There is some violence, though except for one scene it is not over-described.
One small grumble: I don't quite understand the author's choosing to have the main female character hiss - not just once, but multiple times, usually when she was frustrated or irritated. Is the author a cat person? I'm female. I don't recall having hissed at all in at least the last 6 months. This female is like a leaky air mattress.
This review was written originally for the audio book version.
There is some violence, though except for one scene it is not over-described.
One small grumble: I don't quite understand the author's choosing to have the main female character hiss - not just once, but multiple times, usually when she was frustrated or irritated. Is the author a cat person? I'm female. I don't recall having hissed at all in at least the last 6 months. This female is like a leaky air mattress.
This review was written originally for the audio book version.
A good story, keeps you interested. Story gets bogged down with far too much detail at times. Three inches worth of typed descriptions about the character entering a room and describing what sees when there can get boring.
Another great Elvis Cole novel. These books get better and better with each installment. Silently intimidating Joe Pike makes another appearance too. In this story, Elvis travels to New York to fight the mob to first find a director's former wife and child and then to extract her from a situation with the mob. Pretty interesting story with good characters and fast plot.
Highly enjoyable. Has Hollywood hotshots and Mafia dons and other colorful characters. Though I do like Crais' descriptions of Los Angeles, I really enjoyed the New England setting of most of the action and reading about how Elvis tailed the bad guys through New York City.
good characters, good read
as usual the writer holds your attention all the way thru the book. Once started you don't want to set it down.
I liked this book. Again the author's sense of humor is just a little bit off, but not distracting. Character development is great and the workings of the mob mind is interesting. Quite a bit of violence.
