false 8944 57951 0743281632 9780743281638 139 <![CDATA[The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170484269m/57951.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170484269s/57951.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57951.The_Watchman 3.97 858 The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.

Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation.

For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can't protect her, Larkin's wealthy family turns to the one man money can't buy -- Joe Pike.

Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He's an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike's LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike.

Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike's biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2007 297186 2266120921 9782266120920 63 <![CDATA[L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/297186.L_A_Requiem 4.15 701
Now Karen's powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter's killer--because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. For a dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole's twelve-year friendship--if not their lives. And L.A. just might be singing their dirge.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 1999 14404 0752816993 9780752816999 67 <![CDATA[The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14404.The_Monkey_s_Raincoat 3.93 696
Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex - and 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]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 1987 1689469 0743281640 9780743281645 155 <![CDATA[Chasing Darkness (Elvis Cole, #11)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1689469.Chasing_Darkness 3.87 675 8944 3.93 9759 955 2008 241936 0345451902 9780345451903 33 <![CDATA[The Last Detective (Elvis Cole, #9)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256077257m/241936.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256077257s/241936.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241936.The_Last_Detective 4.09 599 The Last Detective with much on your calendar. This tense, satisfying thriller will glue you to your chair, as private eye Elvis Cole--the star of eight previous Robert Crais novels, prior to the Cole-less Demolition Angel and Hostage--faces his toughest case: the abduction of his girlfriend's son, 10-year-old Ben Chenier, who was staying with Elvis when he was snatched.

Panic at Ben's disappearance turns to terror when the kidnapper phones to reveal his apparent motive, a dark secret from Elvis's past. But the plot thickens and twists, and then twists again, as Elvis and his longtime buddy, tough guy Joe Pike, race the clock against a group of villains as sinister as they are capable. The author mixes Elvis's first-person narration with third-person sections that describe other points of view--a risky technique, but Crais makes it work. He also does a fine job resurrecting the wisecracking Elvis of earlier books while imbuing him with a new depth and darkness.

This dazzlingly plotted, crisply told story is threaded with real detection (what a rarity!) and peopled by characters you can't help but care about--including Carol Starkey, the haunted bomb-squad cop from Demolition Angel, who's now a juvenile-abduction detective. Crais has long been getting better with each book, and The Last Detective continues the pattern. --Nicholas H. Allison

]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2003 180993 0345451910 9780345451910 52 <![CDATA[The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole, #10)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172496683m/180993.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172496683s/180993.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180993.The_Forgotten_Man 3.92 623 Elvis Cole is back...

With his acclaimed bestsellers, Hostage (a New York Times Notable Book) and Demolition Angel, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose. Now, in The Last Detective, Crais returns to his signature character, Los Angeles private investigator Elvis Cole, in a masterful page-turner that probes the meaning of family and the burdens of the past.

Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. When she moved from Louisiana to join Elvis in Los Angeles, she never dreamed that violence would so easily touch her life -- but then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son, Ben, is staying with Elvis, Ben disappears without a trace. Desperate to believe that the boy has run away, evidence soon mounts to suggest a much darker scenario.

Joining forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, Elvis frantically searches for Ben with the help of LAPD Detective Carol Starkey, as Lucy's wealthy, oil-industry ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation. Amid the maelstrom of personal conflicts, Elvis and Joe are forced to consider a more troubling lead -- one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past.

Venturing deep inside a complex psyche, Crais explores Elvis's need for family - the military that embraced him during a troubled adolescence, his rock-solid partnership with Pike, and his floundering relationship with Lucy - as they race the clock in their search for Ben. The Last Detective is Robert Crais' richest, most intense tale of suspense yet.

From the Hardcover edition.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2005 176070 1416514961 9781416514961 75 <![CDATA[The Two Minute Rule]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172440483m/176070.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172440483s/176070.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/176070.The_Two_Minute_Rule 3.81 604 8944 3.93 9759 955 2006 241933 0345435648 9780345435644 29 <![CDATA[Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #7)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173050150m/241933.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173050150s/241933.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241933.Indigo_Slam 3.94 529
Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night. What he finds is a sordid tale of high crimes and illicit drugs. As clues to a man’s secret life emerge from the shadows, Elvis knows he’s not just up against ruthless mobsters and some very angry Feds. He’s facing a storm of desperation and conspiracy—bearing down on three children whose only crime was their survival. . . .]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 1997 241937 034543448X 9780345434487 39 <![CDATA[Demolition Angel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173050152m/241937.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173050152s/241937.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241937.Demolition_Angel 3.79 573 Penzler Pick, May 2000: Like many authors with ongoing characters, Robert Crais has taken a break from his famous private eye. After eight novels featuring Elvis Cole and his loyal sidekick Joe Pike, Crais has created Carol Starkey, a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol.

When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she's "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.

This edgy thriller's protagonist is one that the reader at first may have difficulty liking, but she's got a background and history that make her truly three-dimensional. One hopes that Crais, one of the handful of young crime writers capable of writing consistently luminous prose, will continue to give us characters like Carol Starkey to star in his always powerful portraits of modern-day Los Angeles. --Otto Penzler

]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2000 280553 0752827545 9780752827544 36 <![CDATA[Voodoo River (Elvis Cole, #5)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280553.Voodoo_River 3.95 493 But before he can tackle the mystery of the actress's background, he is up against a whole host of eccentrics, including a crazed Raid-spraying housewife, a Cajun thug who looks like he's been made out of spare parts, and a menacing hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther.

As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actress's origins, he also discovers the real reason he's been sent to Louisiana ...

]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 1995 14400 0752817019 9780752817019 23 <![CDATA[Stalking The Angel (Elvis Cole, #2)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14400.Stalking_The_Angel 3.91 491
Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didn't know, his sociopathic sidekick Joe Pike did. Together their search begins in LA's Little Tokyo and the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession - just another day's work for Elvis Cole.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 1988 241934 0345454944 9780345454942 32 <![CDATA[Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #6)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255641710m/241934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255641710s/241934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/241934.Sunset_Express 3.98 526 8944 3.93 9759 955 1996 22209 0752817000 9780752817002 18 <![CDATA[Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167343787m/22209.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167343787s/22209.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22209.Lullaby_Town 3.96 461 8944 3.93 9759 955 1992 464124 0752847872 9780752847870 30 <![CDATA[Hostage]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464124.Hostage 3.81 461 L.A. Requiem and Voodoo River), he produced Demolition Angel, his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one.

Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley's back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.

Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there's something in Walter Smith's house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he'll sacrifice anyone to get it--which puts Talley's own family in danger. The action speeds to its climax with the velocity of a heat-seeking missile, which makes it almost criminal to slow down long enough to savor the great writing. Take this passage, from a scene when Talley's face-to-face with the man who's holding his own wife and daughter hostage:

Talley ... had stepped into the Zone. It was a place of white noise where emotions reigned and reason was meager. Anger and rage were nonstop tickets; panic was an express. He had been all day coming to this, and here he was: the SWAT guys used to talk about it. You went to the Zone, you lost your edge. You'd lose your career; you'd get yourself killed, or, worse, somebody else.

Crais belongs in that tier of writers whose novelistic gifts transcend the thriller category--writers like Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and James Lee Burke. Hostage is a breakout. --Jane Adams ]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2002 292210 0553565095 9780553565096 17 <![CDATA[Free Fall (Elvis Cole, #4)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676090m/292210.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223676090s/292210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/292210.Free_Fall 3.96 440 8944 3.93 9759 955 1993 216184 1565049624 9781565049628 1 <![CDATA[The Harlan Ellison Hornbook/Harlan Ellison's Movie (Edgeworks 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782425m/216184.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782425s/216184.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216184.The_Harlan_Ellison_Hornbook_Harlan_Ellison_s_Movie 4.12 65 The Harlan Ellison Hornbook and the unfilmed script of Harlan Ellison's Movie, the third omnibus of what was planned to be an approximately 20 part series, although only four were eventually published.]]> 7415 4.05 10086 673 8944 3.93 9759 955 1997 2041922 1898801967 9781898801962 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: The Monkey's Raincoat / Stalking The Angel (Elvis Cole, #1, #2)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2041922.Omnibus_The_Monkey_s_Raincoat_Stalking_The_Angel 4.04 25 8944 3.93 9759 955 1998 6574542 0399156135 9780399156137 13 <![CDATA[The First Rule]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6574542-the-first-rule 4.20 20 Frank Meyer had the American dream—until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Meyer was that—before the family and the business and the normal life—a younger Frank Meyer had worked as a professional mercenary, with a man named Joe Pike. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Pike does not. With the help of Cole, he sets out on a hunt of his own—an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it. Sometimes, the past is never dead. It’s not even past.
]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2010 464112 1597377260 9781597377263 2 <![CDATA[Omnibus: The Last Detective / The Forgotten Man / Hostage]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174972403m/464112.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174972403s/464112.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464112.Omnibus_The_Last_Detective_The_Forgotten_Man_Hostage 4.07 15
The Forgotten Man: - Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead. Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past - his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike. At the same time, Elvis has no way of knowing he has awakened a sleeping monster.

Hostage: - In a sleepy suburb north of Los Angeles, a convenience-store robbery turns violent. With the police on their tail, three criminals flee the scene and invade a home in an exclusive gated community, taking captive a panicked father and his two children. Police chief Jeff Talley, a former hostage negotiator with the LAPD's SWAT unit, is now thrown back into the high-pressure world that he has so desperately tried to leave behind. But Talley's nightmare has barely begun…]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2006 6759349 0752851985 9780752851983 0 <![CDATA[The Last Detective]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759349-the-last-detective 4.46 13 8944 3.93 9759 955 2003 1343246 0394573277 9780394573274 0 <![CDATA[Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182876623m/1343246.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182876623s/1343246.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1343246.Raymond_Chandler_s_Philip_Marlowe_A_Centennial_Celebration 3.75 8
The stories are written by some of the detective-mystery genre's leading lights, including Max Allan Collins, Sara Paretsky, Roger L. Simon, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Robert Crais, Edward Hoch, Ed Gorman, Eric Van Lustbader, Loren Estleman, Simon Brett, and Joyce Harrington. The final story in the volume is Raymond Chandler's last Marlowe adventure: "The Pencil."

The stories run chronologically through the career of Marlowe, from 1935 through 1960. These are classic Marlowe tales of betrayal, mistrust, and double-dealing on the seamy side of Los Angeles.

Contents:
Introduction by Frank McShane
Dealer's Choice by Sara Paretsky
The Man Who Knew Dick Bong by Robert Crais
Gun Music by Loren D. Estleman
Malibu Tag Team by Jonathan Valin
Mice by Robert Campbell
Asia by Eric Van Lustbader
Stardust Kill by Simon Brett
Red Rock by Julie Smith
In the Line of Duty by Jeremiah Healy
In the Jungle of Cities by Roger L. Simon
The Devil's Playground by James Grady
The Perfect Crime by Max Allan Collins
Sad-Eyed Blonde by Dick Lochte
The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin M. Schutz
Saving Grace by Joyce Harrington
The Empty Sleeve by W.R. Philbrick
The Deepest South by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Consultation in the Dark by Francis M. Nevins Jr.
Star Bright by John Lutz
Locker 246 by Robert J. Randisi
Bitter Lemons by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Essence D'Orient by Edward D. Hoch
The Alibi by Ed Gorman
The Pencil by Raymond Chandler]]> 41008 3.63 268 29 386449 3.53 15 3 28509 3.74 9956 939 8944 3.93 9759 955 13371 3.52 601 115 97168 3.55 117 7 130182 3.31 123 26 39467 3.50 4914 498 51504 3.48 895 113 99237 3.68 1162 72 512304 3.69 157 20 73327 3.43 75 11 132225 3.44 411 89 12014 3.66 3431 460 173484 3.53 106 32 242374 3.77 31 4 575449 3.83 83 8 48400 3.44 16 3 33646 3.98 472 63 115054 4.05 74 13 100512 3.56 864 166 5092 3.54 329 47 11258 3.82 1463 184 50319 3.75 442 61 4844 3.88 3448 404 1377 4.04 18048 1443 1988 255996 1590865383 9781590865385 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: The Monkey's Raincoat / Free Fall / Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole, #1, #4, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197974m/255996.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173197974s/255996.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255996.Omnibus_The_Monkey_s_Raincoat_Free_Fall_Lullaby_Town 4.20 10
When Ellen Lang's husband disappears with their son, she hires Elvis Cole to track him down. The search for Ellen's errant husband leads Elvis into the seamier side of Hollywood. He soon learns that Mort Lang is a down-on-his-luck talent agent who associates with a schlocky movie producer, and the last place he was spotted was at a party thrown by a famous and very well-connected ex-Matador. But no one has seen him since - including his B-movie girlfriend. At the same time the police find Mort in his parked car with four gunshots in his chest - and no kid in sight - Ellen disappears. Now nothing is what it seems, and the heat is on. It's up to Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike to find the connection between sleazy Hollywood players and an ex-Matador.

FREE FALL - Read by James Daniels (Sandra Burr, Jill Sovis)

Elvis 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 trouble - the 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 cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.

LULLABY TOWN - Read by James Daniels (Joyce Bean, Russell Byers)

Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelson, 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 Nelson 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 Nelson's wife in a small Conneticut town, she's nothing like what he expects. The lady has some unwanted - and very nasty - mob connections, which means Elvis could be opening the East Coast branch of his P.I. office . . .at the bottom of the Hudson River.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 34127 3.80 41 10 765182 3.94 50 12 2003 1041172 0752838660 9780752838663 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: The Monkey's Raincoat / Stalking The Angel / Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole, #1, #2, #3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180449301m/1041172.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180449301s/1041172.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1041172.Omnibus_The_Monkey_s_Raincoat_Stalking_The_Angel_Lullaby_Town 4.17 6 8944 3.93 9759 955 2001 464143 1587887541 9781587887543 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: Sunset Express / Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole, #6, #7)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464143.Omnibus_Sunset_Express_Indigo_Slam 3.67 6 Elvis Cole, wisecracking private eye, finds himself embroiled in a controversial LA murder case. A wealthy WASP entrepreneur appears to have murdered his wife. A hot-shot defense attorney takes the case and hires Elvis to find proof that the L.A. detective - rumored to be dirty - fooled around with the evidence. But as Elvis investigates, he becomes more suspicious of the media-loving lawyer than the cops. With sidekick Joe Pike and girlfriend Lucy Chenier in tow, Elvis carries the day.

Indigo Slam:
When a 15-year-old girl shows up to plead with Elvis to find her errant father, his first impulse is to hand the case over to Social Services. But he sees how hard the kid is working to keep her two siblings together and afloat. As Elvis and sidekick Joe Pike try their hand at babysitting, events are set in motion that will pit them against a scary group of counterfeiters - and the even scarier U.S. Marshals.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2002 6767484 1593356978 9781593356972 0 <![CDATA[The Two Minute Rule]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6767484-the-two-minute-rule 4.25 4 8944 3.93 9759 955 1296540 3.61 23 3 2006 2417020 1423351606 9781423351603 1 <![CDATA[Omnibus: The Last Detective / The Forgotten Man / The Watchman]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256097677m/2417020.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256097677s/2417020.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2417020.Omnibus_The_Last_Detective_The_Forgotten_Man_The_Watchman 4.25 4
The Forgotten Man: - Los Angeles, 3:58 a.m.: Elvis Cole receives the phone call he's been waiting for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead. Elvis turns to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past - his longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike.

The Watchman: - Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. She speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. When she finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. Larkin’s wealthy family turns to the one man money can’t buy - Joe Pike.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2008 6759352 1593350961 9781593350963 0 <![CDATA[Last Detective, The]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759352-last-detective-the 4.67 3
Joining forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, Elvis frantically searches for Ben with the help of LAPD Detective Carol Starkey, as Lucy's wealthy, oil-industry ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation. Amid the maelstrom of personal conflicts, Elvis and Joe are forced to consider a more troubling lead -- one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past.

Venturing deep inside a complex psyche, Crais explores Elvis' need for family - the military that embraced him during a troubled adolescence, his rock-solid partnership with Pike, and his floundering relationship with Lucy - as they race the clock in their search for Ben. The Last Detective is Robert Crais' richest, most intense tale of suspense yet.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 765182 3.94 50 12 2004 6997885 1416538577 9781416538578 0 <![CDATA[The Watchman (Joe Pike Series #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255779294m/6997885.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255779294s/6997885.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6997885-the-watchman 4.33 3 8944 3.93 9759 955 2007 6996642 0307567850 9780307567857 0 <![CDATA[L. A. Requiem (Elvis Cole Series #8)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6996642-l-a-requiem 4.00 2 8944 3.93 9759 955 2009 827997 0276426622 0 <![CDATA[Reader's Digest 4 in 1 Condensed Books Jackdaws, The Smoke Jumper, Hostage, On The Street Where You Live]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178734071m/827997.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178734071s/827997.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827997.Reader_s_Digest_4_in_1_Condensed_Books_Jackdaws_The_Smoke_Jumper_Hostage_On_The_Street_Where_You_Live 4.00 1 2312885 4.18 2147 374 6098 3.65 9854 959 8944 3.93 9759 955 99044 3.64 91798 4805 3447 3.96 68687 12714 2002 6759351 1423327667 9781423327660 0 <![CDATA[Last Detective, The]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759351-last-detective-the 4.00 1
Joining forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, Elvis frantically searches for Ben with the help of LAPD Detective Carol Starkey, as Lucy's wealthy, oil-industry ex-husband attempts to wrest control of the investigation. Amid the maelstrom of personal conflicts, Elvis and Joe are forced to consider a more troubling lead -- one indicating that Ben's disappearance is connected to a terrible, long-held secret from Elvis Cole's past.

Venturing deep inside a complex psyche, Crais explores Elvis' need for family - the military that embraced him during a troubled adolescence, his rock-solid partnership with Pike, and his floundering relationship with Lucy - as they race the clock in their search for Ben. The Last Detective is Robert Crais' richest, most intense tale of suspense yet.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 765182 3.94 50 12 2006 7364582 9789026123511 0 <![CDATA[De lijfwacht]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261320845m/7364582.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1261320845s/7364582.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7364582-de-lijfwacht 3.00 1 8944 3.93 9759 955 2008 6829240 1419321048 9781419321047 0 <![CDATA[L.A. Requiem]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6829240-l-a-requiem 0.0 0
12 Compact Discs.

This is item 8 in The Elvis Cole Series.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 45978 3.71 2522 598 2000 7182196 2266188577 9782266188579 0 <![CDATA[Mortelle protection]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7182196-mortelle-protection 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 260144 0.0 0 0 2009 7173984 1423356411 9781423356417 0 <![CDATA[Lullaby Town]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7173984-lullaby-town 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2078188 3.41 51 13 2008 7174947 1593356994 9781593356996 0 <![CDATA[The Watchman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7174947-the-watchman 0.0 0
For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can’t protect her, Larkin’s wealthy family turns to the one man money can’t buy - Joe Pike.

Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He’s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike’s LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction - and as deeply alone as Pike.

Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike’s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life…and love.
]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 765182 3.94 50 12 2007 6997886 1423306635 9781423306634 0 <![CDATA[The Watchman (Joe Pike Series #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255779309m/6997886.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255779309s/6997886.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6997886-the-watchman 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 765182 3.94 50 12 2007 6936958 1561009059 9781561009053 0 <![CDATA[Sunset Express]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6936958-sunset-express 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 34127 3.80 41 10 1996 7233301 1441841709 9781441841704 0 <![CDATA[Lullaby Town (Elvis Cole Series #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7233301-lullaby-town 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2010 7051048 0385504276 9780385504270 0 <![CDATA[Last Detective (Elvis Cole Series #9)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7051048-last-detective 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2003 6519336 8466634339 9788466634335 0 <![CDATA[El desconocido]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6519336-el-desconocido 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2008 578060 0752872303 9780752872308 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: L.A. Requiem / Demolition Angel / Hostage]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175964824m/578060.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175964824s/578060.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/578060.Omnibus_L_A_Requiem_Demolition_Angel_Hostage 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2005 6976525 9789722337090 0 <![CDATA[A REGRA DOS 2 MINUTOS]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6976525-a-regra-dos-2-minutos 0.0 0 Nº de Páginas: 316]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2096080 3.20 10 0 2007 7018915 1606407988 9781606407981 0 <![CDATA[The Watchman (Joe Pike Series #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256097682m/7018915.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256097682s/7018915.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7018915-the-watchman 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 765182 3.94 50 12 2008 7018916 1615538682 9781615538683 0 <![CDATA[The Watchmen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7018916-the-watchmen 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2009 3281821 0752853562 9780752853567 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: Free Fall / Voodoo River / Sunset Express (Elvis Cole, #4, #5, #6)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3281821.Omnibus_Free_Fall_Voodoo_River_Sunset_Express 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2002 6850889 3442454271 9783442454273 0 <![CDATA[Hostage - Entführt]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6850889-hostage-entf-hrt 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2005 7174227 1423356535 9781423356530 0 <![CDATA[Free Fall]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7174227-free-fall 0.0 0
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 cop in the LAPD will be gunning for a pair of escaped armed-and-dangerous killers - Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.]]> 8944 3.93 9759 955 2078188 3.41 51 13 2008 7233284 0752858270 9780752858272 0 <![CDATA[L A Requiem: Crime Essentials]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7233284-l-a-requiem 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2003 3739091 3899150791 0 <![CDATA[Geiselnahme / Das Eiskind / Scherben / Leuchtend wie die Sterne]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3739091.Geiselnahme_Das_Eiskind_Scherben_Leuchtend_wie_die_Sterne 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 5561 3.80 22973 1206 19306 3.42 110 16 2003 3286811 2266165143 9782266165143 0 <![CDATA[Omnibus: Le Dernier Détective / Otages De La Peur / L.A. Requiem]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3286811.Omnibus_Le_Dernier_D_tective_Otages_De_La_Peur_L_A_Requiem 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2006 7155475 1890885142 9781890885144 0 <![CDATA[The Last Detective (Elvis Cole Series #9)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7155475-the-last-detective 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 1903 7294728 1441823948 9781441823946 0 <![CDATA[Stalking the Angel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7294728-stalking-the-angel 0.0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 133431 3.76 289 120 2009 6276229 1606520962 9781606520963 0 <![CDATA[Dear John, The Two Minute Rule, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, A Whole New Life (Select Editions - Volume 291)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6276229.Dear_John_The_Two_Minute_Rule_Can_t_Wait_to_Get_to_Heaven_A_Whole_New_Life 0.0 0 One of Select Editions all-time favorite authors has written a romance guaranteed to land at the top of the best-seller lists. A young man finds himself when he becomes a soldier. He also finds the love of his life when he meets a young college girl. Their touching story of two souls destined for each other will definitely not leave a dry eye in the house.

THE TWO MINUTE RULE by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
Two minutes: thats the rule for a successful heist. If you cant get in and out in two minutes, theres going to be trouble. Former bank robber Max Holman knows that better than most people. When Max is finally released from jail, hes going to do his best to get his life back on track. Too bad the world wont let him. No one writes crime stories like Robert Crais, and this ticking-bomb L.A. thriller showcases Crais at his best.

CANT WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN by Fannie Flagg (Random House)
Fannie Flagg is one of Americas favorite storytellers, and her newest bestseller is filled with her trademark blend of humor and touching insight into small-town life. This time, though, her subject is small-town death. Plucky Mrs. Elner Shimfissle, beloved friend to nearly everyone in town, doesnt intend to let a little thing like death stop her. Her adventures in the afterlife and her life afterdeath make this story.

A WHOLE NEW LIFE by Betsy Thornton (St. Martins Press)
A husband is jailed for the murder of his wife, a murder he did not commit. Or did he? This baffling case brings together an attorney who needs to get organized, a private investigator trying to shake off a rough past, a neighbor who seems to be in everybodys business, and even a long-lost daughter who is quite surprised to find her father behind bars. Up-and-coming mystery writer Thornton creates characters you want to spend time with and a puzzle that will keep you guessing.]]> 2345 3.81 240281 20055 8944 3.93 9759 955 6125 3.90 21819 2400 59524 3.21 58 13 2007 6936482 389915035X 9783899150353 0 <![CDATA[Gefährliche Jagd / Nells geheimer Garten / Feuerengel / Die Westentaschenvenus]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6936482-gef-hrliche-jagd-nells-geheimer-garten-feuerengel-die-westentasch 0.0 0 2988163 3.40 10 1 689231 3.00 15 4 8944 3.93 9759 955 180776 4.67 3 0 2002 1799136 0752857835 9780752857831 0 <![CDATA[Crime Fiction Boxed Set]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1799136.Crime_Fiction_Boxed_Set 0.0 0 12470 3.83 44605 4215 8944 3.93 9759 955 2002 464139 270981594X 9782709815949 0 <![CDATA[Selection du Livre - Les Disparues de la Saint-Jean, Docteur Laura, Le Dernier Detective, Le Bizarre Incident du Chien Pendant la Nuit]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/464139.Selection_du_Livre_Les_Disparues_de_la_Saint_Jean_Docteur_Laura_Le_Dernier_Detective_Le_Bizarre_Incident_du_Chien_Pendant_la_Nuit 0.0 0 -2-Docteur Laura, Laurence Dal Cappelo
-3-Le Dernier Detective french translation of The Last Detective, Robert Crais
-4-Le Bizarre Incident du Chien pendant la Nuit french translation of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon]]> 260147 2.00 1 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 2004 7036167 0641906323 9780641906329 0 <![CDATA[Select Editions]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7036167-select-editions 0.0 0 3134545 0.0 0 0 8944 3.93 9759 955 16246 3.59 1461 201 721 3.56 321215 16353 1050 3.73 110644 12108 2008