Metis-sur-mer
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Can anyone tell me if books in this series can be read as stand-alone books? We have a few donations for our public library, like Taken (#15) but I don't have the rest... Thanks!
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Dick Aichinger
The overall series is a combination of Cole and Pike. The series really starts with Elvis Cole with Joe Pike providing backup to Cole in many situations. There are fewer books from Joe Pike's primary perspective. You could read any individually but you would get more from the reading by understanding the perspective of the series. Different books along the way have given insight into the two characters that would certainly help in understanding how and why they react as they do.
Faith
I've been reading the Joe Pike series by Robert Crais and I can say that while all of the books play off each other and would make more sense reading the series as a whole if you needed to, you could read Taken individually. Throughout the book, events would, in certain situations and conflicts, make more sense if you were to read the series from the beginning. While I haven't read the Elvis Cole series before reading the Joe Pike series; those two series are completely individual and kind of independent of each other, even though both characters are together.
John Matsui
I haven't read any other Robert Crais books but I found it easy to get into Taken. I confess the read didn't make me interested in reading more of Crais' works but I don't regret reading Taken either.
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