bookhawk's review against another edition
4.0
Approximately a third of the way through the book I decided I would be reading the whole series. Great action and good dialogue. Elvis Cole get better as this series progresses.
lwalker77's review against another edition
4.0
I give it 3.5 stars. This book took a while to get of the ground but the last 1/3 of the book was really good. The Elvis Cole character really grew on me. I enjoyed the humor Crais used in his writing. I think this series has good potential and look forward to reading more in the series. I highly recommend this book!
myrdyr's review against another edition
4.0
3.9/5 stars. While I am not breaking up with you, Elvis and Joe, I think we would all benefit from a little break where we explore new relationships because you are just not fulfilling all of my needs. Let's keep in touch and reconnect in a couple of months, maybe at the beach.
rclz's review against another edition
4.0
I like everything about this series. Good characters the whole thing. My only small nit is that I listened to these first three books and while the narrators were good I like it a lot when it's the same narrator all through a series. Other than that no nits to pick.
gon8go's review against another edition
4.0
Seems like robert Crais was starting to mature as a writer by the time he got to this one. I won’t say it’s realistic but it’s missing the 80s macheesmo gold that the first book had. Still entertaining, the movie director is such a dick you’ll wish you could punch him yourself.
scott_a_miller's review against another edition
4.0
This was probably the best Cole and Pike book yet. Good all around story. Excellent series and characters.
joetee's review against another edition
5.0
There’s a reason why people recommend starting the Elvis cole series with this book. It’s really good. It’s textbook Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. New York Mafia, Hollywood starlets, and small town USA collide for a great story.
ncrabb's review against another edition
3.0
When she was 18, the woman was Karen Nelson, newly married to a guy who wanted to make it big in pictures and didn’t particularly want her or her as-yet-unborn son. He was Peter Alan Nelson—a name that ultimately came to mean something in the world of movie directing. But when they were young, he just wanted out of the relationship.
Accordingly, she moved east, taking the child with her and erasing all evidence of her connection to Nelsen. Flash forward 12 years: Nelson is now a hotshot Hollywood director whose petulance and immaturity is legendary. These days, he always gets what he wants, and what he wants right now is a relationship with his ex-wife and the son he never met. But first he must find them. That’s where Elvis Cole comes in. Cole, as many of you know, is Robert Crais’s Vietnam vet turned private detective. He’s a decent thoughtful guy, and his character is complex enough that I enjoy my occasional forays into his life. It’s been years since I read one of these Elvis Cole books, and it was good to read this one.
While she doesn’t want to be found, Karen is easily enough tracked down by Cole. Now he has to figure out why she so desperately wants her anonymity. What he discovers is sad indeed. Desperate for money when she first came to the small Connecticut town where Cole finds her, Karen began laundering money for a New York mob boss. But she desperately wants out, and she sees Elvis Cole as her ticket out—eventually.
This is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you reading. Elvis has to grapple with mob influence wherever he goes while solving this case, and as you might expect, his life is in danger more than once.
There are no sexual descriptions here, but the profanity flies almost without restraint. The final wind-up scene occurs in, of all places, an untended pumpkin field! Who says Crais doesn’t have a great imagination? Not me, and neither will you if you decide to read this.
Accordingly, she moved east, taking the child with her and erasing all evidence of her connection to Nelsen. Flash forward 12 years: Nelson is now a hotshot Hollywood director whose petulance and immaturity is legendary. These days, he always gets what he wants, and what he wants right now is a relationship with his ex-wife and the son he never met. But first he must find them. That’s where Elvis Cole comes in. Cole, as many of you know, is Robert Crais’s Vietnam vet turned private detective. He’s a decent thoughtful guy, and his character is complex enough that I enjoy my occasional forays into his life. It’s been years since I read one of these Elvis Cole books, and it was good to read this one.
While she doesn’t want to be found, Karen is easily enough tracked down by Cole. Now he has to figure out why she so desperately wants her anonymity. What he discovers is sad indeed. Desperate for money when she first came to the small Connecticut town where Cole finds her, Karen began laundering money for a New York mob boss. But she desperately wants out, and she sees Elvis Cole as her ticket out—eventually.
This is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you reading. Elvis has to grapple with mob influence wherever he goes while solving this case, and as you might expect, his life is in danger more than once.
There are no sexual descriptions here, but the profanity flies almost without restraint. The final wind-up scene occurs in, of all places, an untended pumpkin field! Who says Crais doesn’t have a great imagination? Not me, and neither will you if you decide to read this.
terraformer's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
lighthearted
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Classic Crais. Read in one day as per....