This was a first Robert Crais book I ever read. I ended up reading then ending first because of it's length and the fact I had never heard of this author. All I have to say is WOW he sucked me in and I have been a fan ever since!
The insight we got into Joe Pike's childhood was amazing and difficult for me to read. But I am and will always be a Pike fan now. It gave us what we needed to carry Joe into his own series of novels.
The writing is poetic and beautiful and at the same time excitingly masculine.
Crais is a master of his craft!!!!!