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After Joe Pike saves a man's life, the man's family seems oddly resentful. Maybe because they're not who they seem to be-including the seductive Dru. But it's more than a charade-it's a trap. And Pik

Dru Rayne y su tío huyeron a Los Ángeles tras el desastre causado por el huracán Katrina. Sin embargo, tras cinco años en la ciudad, se enfrentan a un nuevo peligro. Cuando Joe Pike es testigo de cómo le dan una paliza al tio de Dru, les ofrece su ayuda, pero ninguno de ellos la acepta y tampoco le dan ninguna explicacion de por que hay unos misteriosos agentes del FBI siguiendoles los pasos.A medida que los niveles de violencia se hacen mayores, y el propio Pike se convierte en un objetivo, Elvis Cole y el averiguaran que Dru y su tio no son quienes parecen y que todo lo que creia saber de ella no es mas que una mentira.Una venganza, una amenaza que procede de su pasado les ha dado caza y solo Pike y Cole pueden protegerles.

Nita Morales no parece muy preocupada cuando contrata a Elvis Cole. Ha recibido una llamada pidiendo un rescate por su hija a la que supuestamente han secuestrado, pero ella está segura de que se trata de un engaño, de que su hija se ha marchado por voluntad propia con su novio y de que los jovenes solo quieren sacarle dinero: "Cuando creen que un chico las quiere, hasta las chicas mas listas hacen estupideces". Poco despues, sin embargo, Elvis Cole y Joe Pike demuestran que Nita no puede estar mas equivocada. La joven pareja ha caido en manos de los bajadores, profesionales que no tan solo actuan contra inocentes sino contra otros de su misma calaña. Roban drogas, y armas, y compran y venden personas como si se tratara de objetos. Aquellos que no les reportan beneficios son asesinados sin mas. Despues de dar con una serie de indicios que parece que les pueden conducir a las victimas y a sus captores, Cole y Pike se preparan para el peligroso encuentro pero es entonces cuando la trama dara una vuelta que dejara a los detectives a merced de unos asesinos sin conciencia ni piedad?

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 #1 New York Timesbestselling author.Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injusticethese 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 caseuntil Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense 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 Joes, joining 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.

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.

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. . . .

Robert Crais constata de Nuevo su habilidad para crear thrillers de gran fuerza partiendo de situaciones reales, al lograr transmitir a lo largo de toda esta novela la tensión y la ansiedad queimplica un secuestro. Robert Crais es uno de los escritores de novela negra mas en boga del momento y su obra ha sido publicada en numerosos paises de EE.UU.