Bøger af Robert Crais

';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

';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

The bestselling author of Demolition Angel and L.A. Requiem returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet. As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is a crime writer operating at the top of his game. His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. Hostage proves his earlier success was no fluke. Its an unstoppable read.An ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. When their late afternoon joyride turns into a random act of violence, they take a family hostage in the affluent bedroom community of Bristo Camino. Enter Chief of Police Jeff Talley, a stressed-out former LAPD SWAT negotiator who is hiding from his past. Plunged back into the high-pressure world that he desperately wants to forget, Talley soon learns that his nightmare has only begun. The hostages are not who they seem, and the home contains secrets that even L.A.s most lethal and volatile crime lord, Sonny Benza, fears. As Talley tries to hold himself together and save the people inside, the full weight of Benzas wrath descends on him, putting the police chief and his own family at risk. Soon, all involved are held hostage by the exigencies of fate and the only one capable of diffusing the standoff is the least stable of them all.Hostage is a blistering stand-alone thriller with superb characters in crisis, multistranded plotting, and pitch-perfect Southern California sensibility.

';Crais is at the top of his game, andDemolition Angeldelivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It'sSilence of the LambsmeetsSpeed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.'San Francisco ChronicleCarol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that still haunts her: a detonation that killed her partner and lover, scarred her body and soul, and ended her career as a bomb tech. When a seemingly innocuous bomb call explodes into a charred murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal chilling intentions. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians. Now, as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most perilous fight of her life. . . .Praise for Demolition Angel';Terrific . . . explosive . . . [a] high powered thrill ride.'The Wall Street Journal ';Gripping . . . Crais piles on plot twists . . . gathering the separate threads at the end and igniting them like a string of fireworks.'People ';A powerful, self-contained novel of suspense that has the compactness, velocity, and effectiveness of a well-aimed bullet . . . This is a thriller that works on every level, a pivotal work from a crime novelist operating at the top of his game.'Los Angeles Times ';Fascinating and frighteningly believable . . . Starkey is one of the toughest characters to grace the crowded field of thriller books in a long time.'USA Today';A flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows.'The New York Times Book Review"e;Packs an explosive punch. Though the pace of the book moves like a quick-burning fuse, Crais still takes the time inDemolition Angelto sketch out some memorable characters: Starkey, haunted and hollow-eyed, covering up her pain with a Bogart-tough demeanor; and John Michael Fowles (aka Mr. Red), a sociopath who gets all sorts of information from the Internet without breaking a sweat. . . . Crais keeps things wound so tight that readers will be getting paper cuts in their rush to finish this one.'The Denver Post

';[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

The New York Times bestselling novel by beloved author Robert Crais. No one knows their child better than a mother. But every kid has secrets... secrets even a mother shouldn't know.

Joe Pike must take on his toughest challenge yet. He must hunt down and rescue . . . Elvis Cole. 'A wild ride that allows few pauses for breath...Robert Crais - and Joe Pike - will have you by the throat' INDEPENDENT

Two minutes can be a lifetime . . . 'A nerve-racking switchbacking tale of guilt and redemption. It's so good it gives you goose bumps' EVENING STANDARD

Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?'If you're new to Crais HOSTAGE is a brilliant intro. Read this, then read all his others' DAILY MIRROR

The clock is ticking for Carol Starkey, tenacious detective - and bomb survivor . . . 'Harsh, gruelling and utterly compelling. As good as they come' LITERARY REVIEW

Cole and Pike are trying to help a girl find her father - but run into far more trouble than they bargained for... 'Robert Crais is a classic American crime writer, tough and funny. His books just get better and better' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Corruption, conspiracy and a cop in trouble - only Cole and Pike can help. 'Brilliant ... Read this, then read all his others' DAILY MIRROR

When you're in mortal danger who can you trust to watch over you? Joe Pike is THE SENTRY in this explosive novel. 'Be warned: once started, you'll have to cancel all engagements until you finish it' Independent on Sunday

In a search for a young woman's past PI Elvis Cole discovers far more than he expected . . . 'Excellent ... the plot is full of surprise' THE TIMES

The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE WANTED'A major US crime series that can no longer be overlooked' Time Out

Elvis Cole has got a problem to solve - and this time it's personal. 'Literally a thrill-a-minute ... as good as it gets. Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

The first in the fantastic Cole & Pike series from the bestselling author of THE WANTED and THE PROMISE. 'Robert Crais is an author of incredible talent' Dan Brown

A superb Joe Pike and Elvis Cole novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author. 'The narrative is taut, the menace palpable, the suspense unbearable' DAILY TELEGRAPH

Joe Pike is out for revenge and no cop, no bad guy, no one alive, is going to stop him. 'A nerve-racking, switchbacking tale of guilt and redemption...so good it gives you goosebumps' EVENING STANDARD

Three years ago Elvis Cole's actions may have freed a killer. Now three more young women are dead... 'Crais is on top form ... a first-rate puzzle, with many twists and nothing quite as it seems' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH