ISBN: 0345454944

Sunset Express

Name: Robert Crais keep&#39;s you on the edge of your seat again.
Item: Sunset Express
Rating: 5
Author: JEK

By Robert Crais

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Book Overview

When a wealthy entrepreneur is accused of murder in Los Angeles, wisecracking private eye Elvis Cole is hired to prove that the evidence was corrupted and becomes suspicious about the defense attorney's motivations.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.As Cole and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media, they begin to suspect that it's not the police who are behind the setup.The sixth book in the Elvis Cole series, Sunset Express is marked by Robert Crais's dark humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense. This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Mass Market Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0345454944

Release Date:January 2005

Publisher:Ballantine Books

Length:352 Pages

Weight:0.42 lbs.

Dimensions:6.7" x 0.9" x 4.2"

Related Subjects

Betrayal And Loyalty Deception And Lies Family Secrets Friendship And Trust Love And Loss Murder Investigations Organized Crime Police Corruption Wealth And Power Thriller

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Rated 5 stars
Great action novel about today's anti-hero.

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 16, 2007

This was the first Elvis Cole "series" I have read and I am hooked. Now starting with Monkey's Raincoat, I look forward to reading all the Cole novels. There seem to be a number of anti-hero sidekicks to todays PI's. Spenser has Hawk, Patrick Kenzie has Bubby for example. The character Joe Pike most reminds me of is a spitting image of Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Brutal, quiet loners. But for some reason, Pike seems a bit...

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Rated 5 stars
It's up to ex-cop Joe Pike to protect her.

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 9, 2007

Robert Crais' THE WATCHMAN receives Chicago actor James Daniels' smooth and vivid narrative style as it tells of one Larkin Barkley, who is young, rich, and the sole witness to a secret federal investigation in the aftermath of a terrible accident. Her life is changed and it's up to ex-cop Joe Pike to protect her.

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Rated 5 stars
Grows on you as it builds up

By Thriftbooks.com User, March 1, 2007

Around page 100, I would have rated this just 3-4 stars. It ends up as a firm 5 by the end. There seem to me to be two distinct strands in thriller writing -- character builders and plot artists. Crais is more of a plotter than a character guy; I never quite get inside his two heroes, Pike and Cole -- they seem just a little artificial. But he is superb in plotting. What begins as a routine story line weaves, turns, double...

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Rated 5 stars
Man of Action

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 28, 2007

Joe Pike is the epitome of crime tough guys. Nobody does it better. He was a special forces soldier before he became an LAPD cop. He took the fall on charges that shouldn't have been dropped on him and was busted out of the LAPD. He became a mercenary and a some-time private eye that paired up with the World's Greatest Detective, Elvis Cole. He has red arrows pointing forward tattooed on his deltoids because Joe Pike...

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