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  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    88,95 - 113,95 kr.

    Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up. The blonde who walked into Cole's office was the bestlooking woman he'd seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect ';10' was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuablesomething that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooksand what he didn't know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did. Together their search begins in L.A.'s Little Tokyo and the nest of notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder, sexual obsession, and a stunning double-whammy ending. For Elvis Cole, it's just another day's work. Praise for Stalking the Angel ';Stalking the Angel is a righteous California book: intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean.'James Ellroy ';Out on the West Coast, where private eyes thrive like avocado trees, Robert Crais has created an interesting and amusing hero in Elvis Cole.'The Wall Street Journal ';Devotees of the rock ';em, sock ';em school should find [Stalking the Angel] tasty.'The San Diego Union

  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined bySuspectheroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1New York Timesbestselling author Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed... Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who's disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosivesand a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

  • af Robert Crais
    113,95 - 183,95 kr.

  • af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInvestigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais.It seemed like a simple casebefore the bodies started piling up... When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two others, he's been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear.They stole the wrong thing from the wrong man, and, determined to get it back, he has hired two men who are smart and brutal and the best at what they do.To even the odds, Cole brings in his friend Joe Pike, but even the two of them together may be overmatched. The police don't want them anywhere near the investigation, the teenagers refuse to be found, and the hired killers are leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Pretty soon, they'll find out everything they need to know to track the kids downand then nothing that Elvis or Joe can do may make any difference.It might even get them killed.

  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    ';Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L.A. private eye to come along in years.'Joseph WambaughWINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL *;NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. Private Eye. . . . He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined to never grow up. When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuableher husband and her young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower, Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs, sexand murder. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis. For Ellen, it isn't Funtown anymore. For Elvis, it's just a living . . . He hopes.Praise for The Monkey's Raincoat';Outstanding characters, tight plot, and scintillating prose style. . . . This fast-paced story speeds Elvis Cole to a chilling, heart-stopping ending.'Mystery Scene';Is Bob Crais good? Put it this way: if they're taking you out to put you against the firing squad wall, and you want to enjoy your last moments on earth, pass on the last cigarette and ask for an Elvis Cole novel.'Harlan Ellison';Far and away the most satisfying private eye novel in years. Grab this oneit's a winner!'Lawrence Block';The best private eye novel of the year . . . lots of action; bright, crisp dialogue; and sharply drawn characters.'The Denver Post';Robert B. Parker has some competition on his hands. . . . Elvis Cole is an appealing character and Crais's style is fresh and funny.'Sue Grafton';In Crais, a new star has appeared on the private eye scenea dazzling first novel.'Tony Hillerman

  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    ';A thoughtful and powerful page turner.'PeopleElvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in troublethe kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him out of.Five minutes after his new client leaves his office, Elvis and his partner, the enigmatic Joe Pike, are hip-deep in a deadly situation as they plummet into a world of South Central gangs, corrupt cops, and conspiracies of silence. And before the case is through, every copy in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killersElvis Cole and Joe Pike. ';Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L.A. private eye to come along in years.'Joseph Wambaugh';Elvis lives, and he's on his way to being crowned the king of detectives.'Booklist

  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    ';Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear.'The New York Times Book Review 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 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 sleepuntil 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. She has some unwantedand very nastymob connections, which means Elvis could be opening an East Coast branch of his P.I. office...at the bottom of the Hudson River. ';Elvis [Cole] is the greatest . . . [ he is] perhaps the best detective to come along since Travis McGee.'San Diego Tribune ';[Crais is] far better at the private-eye-novel racket than most writers.'Newsweek

  • - An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
    af Robert Crais
    113,95 kr.

    ';[A] riveting novel with a vivid sense of place . . . Anyone who enjoys a well-written, fast-paced, noirish thriller with a great aha! moment shouldn't miss The Forgotten Man.'The Boston Globe In an alleyway in Los Angeles, an old man, clutching faded newspaper clippings and gasping his last words to a cop, lies dying of a gunshot wound. The victim claims to be P.I. Elvis Cole's long-lost fathera stranger who has always haunted his son. As a teenager, Cole searched desperately for his father. As a man, he faces the frightening possibility that this murder victim was himself a killer. Caught in limbo between a broken love affair and way too much publicity over his last case, Cole at first resists getting involved with this new case. Then it consumes him. Now a stranger's terrifying secretsand a hunt for his killergive Cole a frightening glimpse into his own past. And he can't tell if it's forgiveness or a bullet that's coming next. . . . ';Robert Crais is a crime writer of incredible talenthis novels are not only suspenseful and deeply atmospheric but very hard to put down.'Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code ';A brutal but exhilarating climax.'USA Today

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