Elvis Cole's girlfriend, Lucy, is out of town and she has left her young son, Ben, in Elvis' care. Elvis and Lucy have had a few problems lately - not least over his job as a private investigator. But at last things seem to be getting better. Then Ben disappears. One minute he's playing his computer game in Elvis' house; the next he has vanished. Elvis looks everywhere, but he just can't find Ben; and neither can Lucy when she arrives. Then Elvis receives a phone call about Ben - and realises that something from his own past has come back to haunt him... Read by James Daniels (p) 2003 Brilliance Audio

Cole & Pike

The Last Detective

Frank Meyer had got out of 'the life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. Ten years later, a group of armed men break into his Los Angeles home and brutally gun down him and his family. It's a vicious, cold and professional job. The crew leave no trace behind except the bodies. But they have made one catastrophic and almost certainly terminal, mistake - Joe Pike. Because Pike is now determined to hunt down and eliminate everyone involved in the attack, one by one. And it doesn't matter that, as he starts to investigate, he discovers that these criminals are bigger and better organised than he ever could have imagined, because they are about to learn the first rule... Don't make Joe Pike mad... Read by Robert Crais (p) 2009 Brilliance Audio

A Joe Pike Novel

The First Rule

Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didn't know, his sidekick Joe Pike did. Together, Cole and Pike begin their search in L.A.'s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza - and find themselves caught up in a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession. Just another day's work for Elvis Cole... Read by Patrick G Lawler (p) 2008 Brilliance Audio

Stalking The Angel

Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life - when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of newspaper articles about the past exploits of Elvis Cole - and the fact that before the man died, he said he was Elvis' father... Joe Pike is the only person who can help Elvis navigate his past. As they investigate, Elvis is haunted by the fact that, at last, he might have found his father. But with each clue they uncover, a troubling picture emerges about the dead man. And as Elvis and Joe approach his true identity, they unwittingly walk straight into a hornet's nest. Read by James Daniels (p) 2005 Brilliance Audio

The Forgotten Man

Fifteen-year-old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies since her dad disappeared without trace. She wants LA private eye Elvis Cole to find him and although he knows he should refuse and hand it over to social services, he finds himself taking on the case. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese gunmen. As the action heads towards a gunfight in Disneyland and Cole dodges his almost-girlfriend's ex-husband, he realises Teri is one whole lot of trouble he should have left to the professionals. Read by David Stuart (p) 1997 Brilliance Audio

Indigo Slam

Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies. Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer is sure he's in trouble - the kind of serious trouble that only Cole can get him out of. Five minutes after his new client leaves the office, Cole 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. And before long, every cop in the LAPD is gunning for a pair of armed and dangerous killers - Cole and Pike. Read by Mel Foster (p) 2008 Brilliance Audio

Free Fall

It is fire season and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police and Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants, they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed and could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years, their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the 'death album' there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but, with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole... Read by James Daniels (p) 2008 Brilliance Audio

Chasing Darkness

Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather. And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high. Read by Mel Foster (p) 2008 Brilliance Audio

Lullaby Town

On his own turf in L.A., PI Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife and his hot-shot defence lawyer hires Cole to find proof that the detective on the case, Angela Rossi, fooled around with the evidence. Yet as Elvis investigates Rossi for the defence team, he begins to be more suspicious of the media-loving lawyers than the cops. And as the investigation continues, Cole is drawn deeper and deeper into the intrigue and dangers surrounding the case of the missing woman. Read by David Stuart (p) 1996 Brilliance Audio

Sunset Express

After the nightmare of Hurricane Katrina, Dru Rayne and her uncle relocated to Los Angeles. Five years later, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighbourhood gang, he offers his own brand of protection, but neither Dru nor her uncle want his help. And neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store... But Pike is falling for Dru and won't back away whether she wants his help or not. As the violence escalates, Joe discovers Dru and her uncle are not who they seem - and now a vengeful, murderous force from their past is catching up with them... Read by Luke Daniels (p) 2010 Brilliance Audio

The Sentry

Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress in a hit TV show, Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodi's biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of Jodi's background, he is up against a whole host of eccentrics, including a crazed Raid-spraying housewife, a Cajun thug who looks like he's been made out of spare parts and a menacing hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actress' origins, he also discovers the real reason he's been sent to Louisiana... Read by Mel Foster (p) 2008 Brilliance Audio

Voodoo River

When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-deco office, she's lost something very valuable - her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex - and murder. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis. Read by Patrick G Lawler (p) 2007 Brilliance Audio

The Monkey's Raincoat

Quando Devon Connor, mamma single, si accorge che il suo tormentato figlio adolescente, Tyson, maneggia troppi soldi, teme che abbia a che fare con il mondo della droga e decide di assumere l'investigatore privato Elvis Cole per scoprire cosa sta succedendo. Ma la verità è tragicamente molto diversa. Con altri due ragazzi, Tyson è responsabile di una serie di furti di alto livello. Una scelta folle che ha un epilogo mortale quando i tre rubano la cosa sbagliata all'uomo sbagliato, il quale, deciso a recuperare ciò che è suo, assolda due killer spietati, i migliori sulla piazza. Uno dei tre ragazzi, Alec, viene ucciso e Tyson e Amber scompaiono. Cole coinvolge il suo amico Joe Pike nell'indagine, ma la situazione si rivela sempre più complicata e rischiosa. La polizia non vuole che si intromettano, i ragazzi non si trovano, e gli spietati killer stanno lasciando una scia di cadaveri sul loro cammino. Ben presto riusciranno a raggiungere i fuggitivi e a quel punto nulla di ciò che Elvis e Joe faranno cambierà le cose. E potrebbero essere uccisi, tutti quanti. In Caccia all'uomo, il nuovo capolavoro di suspense di Robert Crais, autore bestseller da sempre in cima alle classifiche, l'investigatore Elvis Cole e il suo partner Joe Pike affrontano uno dei casi più rischiosi di tutta la loro carriera.

Caccia all'uomo

Joe Pike non si aspettava di salvare una donna, quel giorno. Ma quando Isabel Roland, "Izzy", giovane e solitaria cassiera in banca, esce per la pausa pranzo dall'edificio in cui lavora, Joe si accorge che due uomini stanno tentando di rapirla. Riesce a fermarli e i malviventi vengono arrestati, ma si tratta solo dell'inizio dei guai per Joe e Izzy. Usciti su cauzione, i due uomini vengono uccisi e Isabel scompare all'improvviso. Pike capisce immediatamente che la ragazza è in grave pericolo e chiede al suo amico Elvis Cole di aiutarlo a far luce sulla vicenda. Elvis scopre un'intricata storia familiare che coinvolge un vecchio caso giudiziario, una grande quantità di denaro di provenienza misteriosa e una lunga serie di bugie. Cosa c'entra Izzy con tutto questo? Ed è vittima o colpevole? Nel frattempo, la polizia indaga sul coinvolgimento di Joe nella vicenda... Fino a che punto dovrà spingersi Pike per scoprire la verità?

Un uomo pericoloso

Dopo aver accettato un incarico strettamente riservato, Elvis Cole si mette sulle tracce di una madre sconvolta dal dolore e misteriosamente scomparsa. In una notte di pioggia incessante, la sua ricerca lo conduce nei pressi di una casa come tante a Echo Park, Los Angeles, dove le sue indagini incroceranno quelle dell'agente del Dipartimento di Polizia Scott James e del suo cane poliziotto, Maggie. A farli incontrare e metterli in scacco entrambi, loro malgrado, è Rollins, un feroce malvivente che ha lasciato dietro di sé un corpo senza vita ed esplosivi sufficienti a far saltare in aria tutto il vicinato. In fuga dalla polizia, l'uomo sembra essere collegato anche alla donna scomparsa che Cole sta cercando. L'agente Scott è l'unica persona in grado di identificare Rollins, che ha una regola ben precisa: non lasciare mai vivo un testimone. Costretto al silenzio dalla segretezza del suo incarico, Elvis Cole viene preso di mira dalla polizia stessa, mentre Scott e Maggie diventano bersagli di Rollins. I due casi ben presto si intrecciano e così Elvis e il fido Joe Pike decidono di unire le forze con Scott e Maggie e insieme si ritrovano a combattere contro l'ombra del terrorismo, trafficanti di armi, funzionari corrotti e bande criminali, in una storia dove nessuno è chi afferma di essere, forse neanche la donna che tutti hanno promesso di salvare. Con La promessa, il maestro del thriller Robert Crais ci regala un capolavoro di suspense che vede come protagonisti tutti i suoi personaggi più amati: Elvis Cole e Joe Pike stavolta faranno squadra con gli eroi de Il sospetto, Scott e Maggie, in una storia che terrà il lettore con il fiato sospeso dalla prima all'ultima pagina e che conferma, una volta di più, il talento di uno dei più grandi autori del genere.

La promessa

Adele Schumacher non è la tipica mamma preoccupata. Quando ingaggia Elvis Cole per ritrovare il figlio scomparso, Josh, ideatore di un controverso podcast su UFO e alieni, porta con sé una borsa piena di soldi, bizzarri racconti di cospirazioni governative e una squadra di guardie del corpo professioniste. Trovare Josh dovrebbe essere semplice, ma Elvis scopre ben presto di non essere solo nella caccia: una squadra micidiale di misteriosi sconosciuti è determinata ad arrivare prima di tutti a Josh e alla sua amica Skylar, star del cinema porno. Con pericolosi segreti in agguato dietro ogni pista, Elvis ha bisogno più che mai del suo amico Joe Pike per scoprire la verità su Josh, sui politici corrotti e sugli efferati cartelli d'affari che stanno distruggendo Los Angeles. Quando poi l'ex fidanzata di Elvis, Lucy Chenier, e suo figlio Ben vanno a stare per qualche giorno da lui, Elvis scopre quanto lui stesso rischia di perdere... sempre se riesce a sopravvivere. Scritto con il cuore, l'umorismo e l'implacabile suspense per cui Robert Crais è famoso, Luci su Los Angeles vede Elvis Cole alle prese con il caso più pericoloso di tutta la sua vita.

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