false <![CDATA[The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170484269m/57951.jpg 57951 16 <b>The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers.</b> 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. 814176 27 2 2007 The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1) total:889|5:251|4:403|3:190|2:39|1:6| 889 3521 1156 156 5 3 false false Tue Apr 03 10:46:35 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 06 07:34:48 -0700 2007
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The story revolves around Joe Pike protecting a federal witness, Larkin Barkley as a favour for Jon Stone who...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:42:26 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:42:26 -0800 2009 Robert Crais wrote for the hit television shows Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, and L.A. Law, among others, so it comes as no surprise that his novels (including 11 featuring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike) have a hard-boiled feel and seamlessly incorporate cutting dialogue (see the recently reviewed The Tw...

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Joe Pike, an ex-cop, must protect Larkin Conner Barkley, a rich and spoiled young woman. She is to be a witness in a federal case and everywhere she goes the killer hunts her down. Everything is not as it should be though and J...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 04 21:09:05 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 21:09:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 11:18:52 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 11:25:15 -0700 2009 Watchmen, the graphic novel, and Watchman, the spy novel that I think was by Ian Rankin, and now I have read The Watchman. Naturally, I will have to search for a book called Watchdog.

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I loved The Watchman. Every peak into Joe's history adds another layer of connectedness to this series.

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Entertaining point of view, like a Fantastic Four tale focused on Ben Grimm. ]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 11:51:09 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:06:14 -0700 2009
Joe Pike is an ex-; ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary and watches...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 16:43:12 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 20 00:35:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 15 08:39:50 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 05:17:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 13:19:31 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 13:29:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 04:12:43 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 13:52:46 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Mar 07 12:44:35 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 12:45:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=57951