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by Luke Daniels,Robert Crais

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Luke Daniels,Robert Crais

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978-1423375715

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1423375718

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English

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Brilliance Audio; Abridged edition (December 31, 2012)

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Suspense

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Thrillers & Suspense

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Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennife. 7 primary works, 8 total works.

Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennife. ore. Scott James & Maggie. 2 primary works, 2 total works.

Elvis Cole/Joe Pike Series. Written by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who's disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until Elvis learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a defense department contractor. Narrated by Luke Daniels and MacLeod Andrews. In this New York Times bestselling suspense masterpiece, 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. 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.

Don’t get me wrong-Robert Crais is a terrific author, and a disappointing book in this series is still better than the overwhelming majority of books in this genre. But I think longtime readers/fans will be disappointed

ISBN-13: 978-1522649120. Don’t get me wrong-Robert Crais is a terrific author, and a disappointing book in this series is still better than the overwhelming majority of books in this genre. But I think longtime readers/fans will be disappointed. I’ll list a few reasons why: - Elvis’s trademark humor is flat and almost non-existent.

Most of Crais' books feature the characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, with The Watchman (2007), The First Rule (2010) and The Sentry (2011) .

Most of Crais' books feature the characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, with The Watchman (2007), The First Rule (2010) and The Sentry (2011) centering on Joe Pike. Taken is a 2012 detective novel by Robert Crais. Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels.

Elvis Cole/Joe Pike, Book 8. By: Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and former cop Frank Pike have been partners in a detective agency for 12 years. Narrated by: Luke Daniels, MacLeod Andrews. Narrated by: Ron McLarty. When the missing persons case turns into a hunt for a killer who has been stalking victims in Los Angeles, Cole and Pike find themselves battling both a hostile police department and a madman. Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins.

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and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media. Beden Dili - Joe Navarro.

private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. But when Cole gets to Louisiana and begin. and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media. 05 MB·84,385 Downloads·Turkish.

Investigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different

Taken (Book) : Crais, Robert : Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the allegedly kidnapped missing daughter . A kidnapping drops Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the maelstrom of human smugglers.

A kidnapping drops Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the maelstrom of human smugglers. college senior Krista Morales finds out the secret her boyfriend, USC dropout Jack Berman, has been.

As always, downloaded books are yours to keep. s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza.

Crais has never written a book with the power and intensity of Taken.

When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will call only “that boy,” and that they need money: “Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them.”

But she is wrong. The girl and her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores—bandits who prey on other bandits, border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims, but on one another. They steal drugs, guns, and people—buying and selling victims like commodities, and killing the ones they can’t get a price for.

Cole and Pike find the spot where the couple were taken. There are tire tracks, bullet casings, and bloodstains. They know things look as bad as possible.

But they are wrong, too. It is about to get much worse. Going undercover to find the couple and buy them back, Cole himself is taken, and disappears. Now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend.

But he may already be too late.

Thrilling, emotional, passionate, with some of the best characters and well-crafted writing in all of crime fiction, Taken is further proof that “Crais just keeps getting better” (Publishers Weekly).

Tygolar

Another excellent Joe Pike, Elvis Cole and Jon Stone book. This on is about abductions of "pollos" (alien immigrants brought across the border by "coyotes") from the people they paid to gain their self passage by "bajaderos," bad guys from cartels who hold the pollos for ransom. When their parents can't pay, or have paid all they can, the pollo is killed.

Being in the wrong place at the wrong tomes gets Krista Morales and her boyfriend abducted by the bajaderos. Jack happens to be the wealthy nephew of Nancie Stendahl, an assistant ATF deputy chief. Nita Morales calls Elvis Cole because of a feature article in the paper that hails him as, "The Greatest Detective." Nita is Krista's mother, and is understandably anxious and terrified when she realizes her daughter has been abducted. Elvis calls in his buddies, Joe Pike and Jon Stone, and after a lot of blood and gore, and shootings, Krista and Jack are rescued.

There are no spoilers because how could Elvis, Jon, and Joe lose? The shoot-em-up stuff is vintage Robert Crais--but in addition, the reader can learn a lot about illegal immigration. I gave this book 4 stars because there were so many "bad guys" it was very hard to keep them apart. More detail about how Koreans have entered into the melee might be helpful.

Shezokha

Robert Crais knows how to spin a good yarn, and he proves that once again with "Taken." He sucks you right in and never lets up, and there's nothing wrong with that approach. However, having read all his previous novels, I've come to expect more from this author than simple entertainment. All the characters seem rather one-dimensional. It's as though he decided that, having previously spent a great deal of time developing Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, there's no need for that here. And the rest of the bunch, particularly Jon Stone, come off as caricatures rather than fully realized characters.

I also found Crais's "time-shifting" method a bit gimmicky ("six days after they were taken ... eleven days after they were taken ... five days after they were taken"). Ditto for Elvis Cole speaking in first-person and the rest in third-person. And did we really need the whole Nancie Stendahl/ATF scenario?

Despite those complaints, I gobbled up this novel in two days.The action was relentless. So perhaps I'm being picky.

Regardless, while this novel certainly stands on its own, if you're new to Robert Crais I urge you to go back to the beginning of the Elvis Cole saga. Heck, I wish I were new to Crais, since it's been such an enjoyable ride with him over the years.

Delari

This is a violent book with a lot of bullets, but it would be a mistake to categorize it as simply an action book. Cole is always snarky and Pike is the ultimate tough guy, but above everything else the Cole/Pike books—and TAKEN especially—are about loyalty and friendship.

Longtime readers will know that Pike always keeps his Jeep pristine … but Cole with his Corvette? Not so much. There is a beautifully written scene in this book where Cole is missing and Pike is in limbo waiting for something to do—and he washes Cole’s Corvette. It illustrates perfectly the many layers and complexities of this novel. It’s not only about the bullets.

If you are an Elvis Cole/Joe Pike fan then all you really need to know about this book are two words: “Got you.” Pike is the one talking, and the first 300-plus pages are worth reading just to set-up this one statement.

If you are not already an Elvis Cole/Joe Pike fan … then you should buy this book, because you’re missing out on an incredible series.

Avarm

"Taken", by Robert Crais, is the latest mystery thriller featuring his popular characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. Below are my impressions of this novel. (Note that I don't give spoilers on works of fiction.)

This time out, Elvis is hired by a mother to find her missing daughter, who she suspects has run away with her boyfriend to elope. However, if this were the case (heh, a pun), it would be a rather boring book, so Elvis quickly determines that this not true, and as usual in his tougher cases, enlists the help of his partner, Joe Pike.

Mr Crais tries several new techniques in this novel, as compared to his other works. First, he has the point of view shift between multiple characters. I would estimate that maybe two-thirds of the time the point of view is with either Elvis or Pike; the rest of the time it's with other characters. The author also shifts the timelines back and forth. For example, one chapter might feature Elvis 2 days before a critical event, then the next chapter is with other characters 7 days before that event.

Although the plotting is clever and this is a clear attempt by Mr Crais to "shake things up" a bit, the multiple characters and shifting timelines didn't work for me. It gave me a disjointed feeling, plus I wanted to read more what Elvis and Pike were doing, not what the other characters were doing. I would have rather read a more straightforward story focusing more exclusively on Elvis and Pike.

There was not much of Mr Crais's trademark humor in this book, either, aside from a few quips by Elvis. The subject matter is grim, but that hasn't stopped the author in the past. On the other hand, Elvis isn't wallowing in self-pity in this book, and that's a definite plus. (Ok, "wallowing" is a bit strong, but if you've read Mr Crais's last few Elvis-Pike novels, Elvis has definitely been in the dumps lately, and it's nice to see him be more Elvis-like.)

Overall, I find this book a bit disappointing, although even disappointing Elvis and Pike is still better than most other mystery thrillers out there. Other fans will undoubtedly love the book, and that's certainly ok, as Mr Crais is still trying to grow as an author, which is a good thing. I own and have read every book the author has published, and while I was glad to see him write another Elvis-Pike novel so soon after his last book, I rate this one a bit below his better efforts. Three stars.

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