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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 father - a 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.
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Crais's reliable craft
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When gangbangers shake down the modest owner of a Los Angeles eatery, Joe Pike intervenes. For all intents and purposes, Pike saved Wilson Smith's life. But for reasons of their own, Smith and his lovely niece, Dru, are curiously resentful. It's only when Pike's feelings for the woman deepen that he and his partner, Elvis Cole, discover that Dru and her uncle are not at all who they seem, and everything Pike has learned about them is a lie. But it's much more than a deception. It's a trap. And with every new twist it's proving to be a killer.
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Vintage Crais
- By S. Harvey on 01-21-11
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Taken
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When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter, she's sure it's a ruse orchestrated by the girl and her boyfriend. She's wrong. They've been taken by bajadores - border bandits who prey on the innocent by buying, selling, and disposing of victims like commodities. Cole and Joe Pike start an undercover investigation to find the couple, but their plan derails when Cole disappears, leaving Pike to burn through the murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend as well as the missing young people. But he may already be too late...
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Another Enjoyable Cole and Pike novel
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When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it’s because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she’s afraid he’s dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two others, he’s been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear. They stole the wrong thing from the wrong man, and, determined to get it back, he has hired two men who are smart and brutal and the best at what they do.
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Not what I expected after waiting for so long
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Voodoo River
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L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back. It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he finds that there's something much darker going on. Other people are also looking for Taylor's parents, and some are ending up dead.
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Wonderful story...great narrator
- By David on 07-28-11
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Indigo Slam
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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...
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Worst listen of my life
- By Mari on 05-14-13
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L.A. Requiem
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Edgar Award nominee Robert Crais’ L.A. Requiem is a gritty, harrowing look into the minds of a serial killer and the men determined to stop him. Elvis Cole and former cop Joe Pike have been partners in a detective agency for 12 years. After an ex-girlfriend of Pike’s disappears, the girl’s father asks them to help the police with the search. When the missing persons case turns into a hunt for a killer who has been stalking victims in Los Angeles, Cole and Pike find themselves battling both a hostile police department and a madman.
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Equal to Bosch and Davenport
- By David on 11-19-12
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Free Fall
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Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiancé, 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.
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Ugh! The Narrator!
- By Julie on 02-05-10
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Sunset Express
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- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: David Stuart
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife's brutal murder. But he's not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Detective Rossi needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal investigation five years ago. But Cole needs to know if she's desperate enough to falsify the case against Martin in order to secure her own position.
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Entertaining but poor quality, garbled at spots
- By Barbara on 05-12-14
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The Promise
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- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels, MacLeod Andrews
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Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives - and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.
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The Promise
- By Diana Hart 33 on 11-12-15
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A Dangerous Man
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- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to rest, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.
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Better than his last two books, but disappointing
- By Kerensa Carlee on 08-08-19
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Lullaby Town
- An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel, Book 3
- By: Robert Crais
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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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 sleep - until 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.
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A great Elvis and Joe Pike read
- By K. Shaw on 11-24-12
Publisher's Summary
Two minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up.
But not everyone plays by the rules. When an ageing ex-con finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn't taste too sweet. His son is gunned down in a drive-by shooting. It seems like a random crime, but when the victim is a cop - especially a cop with a con for a father - the motives are never simple.
When the hit is exposed as a revenge killing and the question of police corruption is raised, it becomes a father's last duty to clear his son's name and catch the killer.
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- Lia
- Sutton, Australia
- 01-01-18
Excellent 4 Star Listen
My bookmark almost fell out of Robert Crais' THE TWO MINUTE RULE about ten pages in. Just seemed too street-wise and hip-hoppy for my taste, but because my stack had dwindled I read on. And I'm glad I did. Okay, this story is improbable: convicted heroic (Huh?) bank robber turning to the former Feeb who arrested him to clear the name of the bank robber's dead cop son. Yeah, right...
But this story works. Seems the dead cop and three of his cohorts were searching for $16 million in missing bank loot, all off the record, of course. Somebody gunned them down. Was it the East L.A. gangs, as the cops are claiming? Then who shot the shooter? And who else is looking for the money? Are the cops the bad guys here? Convicted bank robber Max Holman, released from jail a day after his son was murdered, resolves to get to the bottom of this mystery. But everywhere he turns, he runs into cops, and nasty ones at that: cops trying to make him disappear; cops willing to set up and take down his only friend, a bank robbing buddy who maybe is going straight. Shut off from official help, Holman turns to Katherine Pollard, ex-Feeb, the agent who arrested him. Seems Pollard left the Feds to raise a young son. She's bored and under the thumb of a dominating mother. She craves the excitement she gave up and still has contacts in the agency, contacts who can access records the LAPD is hiding. But she's skeptical of Holman's claims, until some of them are proven true. Gradually, Pollard comes to believe Holman's son and the other cops were murdered by one of their own. But who? LAPD or FBI? As Pollard probes further, she joins Holman in the cross-hairs of a ruthless killer who'll do anything for $16 million.
As improbable as this plot may seem, Crais does a masterful job of making it stick. The pace is furious, the suspense palpable. Max Holman was nailed once by violating the two-minute rule. As the clock ticks down in this mystery thriller, he'll get another shot at it. THE TWO MINUTE RULE is enjoyable and a satisfying listen.
Christopher Graybill was outstanding with the delivery of the story
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- ms
- 07-29-15
Excellent as always
Classic Robert Crais, you think you have worked it out but then it's always something or some one you haven't thought of. Loved it