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A long time ago, Joe Pike asked for help. In return, he would, one day, be called upon to return the favour, no questions asked. That day has come. Joe Pike is asked to protect the life of Larkin Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a major case. But someone is leaking information about their whereabouts, and the killers are getting all too close. So Pike he hatches a plan: disappear into the anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, turn the tables, and hunt down the hunters. Enlisting the help of Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals; even the cops aren''t who they seem. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Pike''s biggest threat may be the girl herself - an edgy, yet intensely vulnerable soul determined to destroy herself, unless Joe can fill the void in her bruised heart.

Una llamada de la policía interrumpe el sueño del detective Cole: alertados por un disparo, han encontrado a un hombre herido en un callejón. Poco antes de morir, el desconocido afirma buscar a su hijo: Elvis Cole. Obsesionado desde la infancia por no haber conocido a su padre, Cole decide investigar con la ayuda de su compañero Joe Pike. Pero la indagacion esta despertando la atencion de otro monstruo: un sanguinario asesino que guarda relacion con el pasado del desconocido. Pronto, el psicopata se lanzara al ataque.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by SUSPECT heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the No.1 bestselling author. Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice - these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case - until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown. Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected. The fugitive is dead, the building is filled with explosives, and Scott and Maggie are assaulted by a hidden man who escapes in the chaos, all as a bloodied Joe Pike watches from the shadows. Soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted by that man and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe's, join forces to follow the trail of the missing woman as well. From inner-city drug traffickers to a shadowy group of Afghan war veterans with ties to a terrorist cell, the people they encounter on that trail add up to ever-increasing odds, and soon the four of them are fighting to find the woman not only before she is killed ...but before the same fate happens to one of them.

In the new suspense masterpiece from the #1 New York Times–bestselling series, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike team up with new heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed. 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.

Gastado en una casa en Los Ángeles se encontró un cadáver, al parecer un suicidio. Sin embargo, cuando los muertos se encuentra un álbum de fotos con horribles fotografías de siete mujeres jóvenes, todos inmediatamente después de su asesinato a tiros. Un thriller de ampollas éxito de la autora, que establece el estándar para los poderosos delito escrito. Elvis Cole está de vuelta - en una desesperada lucha para limpiar su nombre ...…

Readers met Joe Pike in Robert Crais's THE WATCHMAN, and now the LA private detective is back in this rousing thriller. Upstanding citizen, Frank Meyer had no known connections to organized crime, but when his entire family is brutally slain in a mob-style killing, the police assume the worst about Meyer. Pike believes that something much more sinister and complex is afoot, so with the help of his partner Elvis Cole, he launches an investigation that shoots straight to the heart of the Russian mafia and some of Los Angeles's most ruthless individuals, revealing some brutal games of greed and revenge and a sludge of long-buried secrets and horrors

Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice - these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed. When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case - until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defence contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown. Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected. Soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe's, join forces to follow the trail of the missing woman as well. From inner-city drug traffickers to a shadowy group of Afghan war veterans with ties to a terrorist cell, the people they encounter on that trail add up to ever-increasing odds, and soon the four of them are fighting to find the woman not only before she is killed ...but before the same fate happens to one of them.

From the "New York Times"-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime-writing comes a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole.

During a fire evacuation of Laurel Canyon, the charred body of a man Detective Elvis Cole help to clear of murder charges is found, along with an album of photos of seven brutally murdered young wome

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 Coles long-lost fathera 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. Now a strangers terrifying secretsand a hunt for his killergive Cole a frightening glimpse into his own past. And he cant tell if its forgiveness or a bullet thats coming next. . . .

Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike face a cryptic case and a terrifyingly unpredictable killer in this twisty edge of your seat thriller from 1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais Traci Beller was only thirteen when her father disappeared in the sleepy town of Rancha not far from Los Angeles The evidence says Tommy Beller abandoned his family but Traci never believed it Now a super popular influencer with millions of followers she finally has the money to hire a new detective to uncover the truth And that detective is Elvis Cole Taking on a ten years cold missing person case is almost always a losing game though Elvis quickly picks up a lead in Rancha when he learns that an ex con named Sadie Givens and her daughter Anya might have a line on the missing man But when he finds himself shadowed by a deadly gang of vicious criminals the case flips on its head Victims become predators predators become prey and when everyone is a victim will it be possible to save them all Calling on the help of his ex Marine friend Joe Pike Elvis follows Tommy Beller s trail into the twisted nightmarish depths of a monstrous evil even as what he finds tests his loyalty to his clients and to himself But the truth must come ou