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Summary: Robert Crais is simply THE BEST!!
Review: As a huge Robert Crais fan, I of course have to say that INDIGO SLAM is a great novel! Elvis Cole has always been my favorite private eye, and this time he and Joe Pike take on the Russian Mafia along with Federal Marshalls to find the father of a young girl and her two younger siblings. Like the other novels in this great series, there's plenty of action and suspence that will keep your attention up to the very last page. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book today. I gaurantee you will not be disappointed!
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Summary: Elvis Cole Fan
Review: Elvis Cole, World's Greatest Detective. Need I say more? Who could possibly be more entertaining than a wise cracking LA PI named Elvis?
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Summary: Not the best, not the worst
Review: Finally got to this one in the Elvis Cole series; although I do not know why it was passed over both by starting with Voodoo River, then recent entries and finally jumping on the back trail, a familiar process when I discover an intersting writer. This leads to treasures but also disappointments. This novel is neither. It has a solid plot, although I think one of the final twists is really unnecessary for the conclusion and may be a gratuitous slap at Feds. Pike is simply too shadowy and it is clear that Lucy's ex-husband is being set up for a role in a sequel. As ususal Crais has a strong sense of place, smooth construction and an eventful plot. I rather like some of the wit and joking of Cole and enjoy his irreverent attitude, but I do think the writer pushes it just a bit. The novel does not get bogged down in the technicalities of detecting, lawyering, or policing - a problem in many "thrillers" today. All in all, a good read for a rainy Sunday.
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Summary: Average Crais
Review: In terms of Crais's Elvis Cole novels, this is about as middle of the road as it gets. While not a superb novel, there is really nothing wrong with it. Sometimes drags a bit, sometimes exciting, it's a good book nonetheless.
Basically, a young girl enters Elvis's office and asks him to find her father. What happens is a typical hairy situation with a lot of twists and turns. Though it is quite unrealistic at the end, I would recommend it to anyone who wants to continue reading about Elvis and his partner, Joe Pike.
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Summary: Nothing is What it Seems in this Super Thriller
Review: It was plant day in Los Angeles, at least that what Private Investigator Elvis Cole calls the day of the month that he waters his dying plants. Elvis isn't good with plants. Anyway he's busy caring for them when Teresa, Charles and Winona Haines walk into his office. They want Elvis to find their father. Elvis doesn't work for children, so he sends them away. However, after they leave he realizes that he's screwed up. The kids were obviously in trouble, had come to him for help and he'd failed them. He rushes downstairs in time to see fifteen-year-old Teresa pull away from the curb. He dashes to his car and follows, thinking that the girl, who is too young to drive, has a lot on her young shoulders.He decides to help the children and Teresa pulls a wad of hundred dollar bills from her purse, but he tells her he won't take money from her, she insists and he accepts two of the bills and leaves, thinking it'll be an easy job. But as usual in a Robert Crais detective thriller, things are not always as they seem. Elvis goes to the print shop where Charles Haines, the errant father, works and finds out he was fired because the boss caught him shooting up. The kid's father is a junky and that's the last thing Elvis wants to tell them. From the phone bill he learns Charles called Seattle several times, so he flies up there on his own nickle, asks questions and is kidnapped, beat up and almost killed by Russian mobsters who want to know why Elvis is asking question about Charles, who's last name by the way isn't Haines, but Hewitt. Fortunately he's saved at the last minute by U.S. Marshals who want to know the same thing. Elvis figures out that Charles had flown the coup from the federal witness program. That he was a big time counterfeiter and that some very bad guys want him dead and that they'll kill anybody who gets in their way. Fortunately, Elvis has his pal, the quiet and broody Pike to watch his back. And thus it begins, the twists and turns of a Robert Crais novel where, as I said above, nothing is as it seems. Just when you think you've got a handle on the story it takes a quick right turn and you're slapping yourself upside the head, murmuring, "Why didn't I see that?" INDIGO SLAM, like every book Robert Crais has written, is a five star read, one that won't let you sleep, eat or go to work until you finish, it's that good. Reviewed by Vesta Irene
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Summary: Excellent
Review: One of the better Elvis Cole mysteries. Endangered children, the only thing better than a damsel in distress for Cole and his faithful sidekick Joe Pike. Fast paced!! Highly recommended.
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Summary: I have read them all
Review: Robert Crais has never written a bad book.
HIS Crais') BEST is HOSTAGE but I have enjoyed Elvis Costello and his sometimes partner Joe Pike.
I am anxously awaiting The Forgotten due soon
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Summary: Just good
Review: The story of the counterfeiter is interesting but you can't say this is a real RC's thriller, the book will keep you reading but it has some voids and some parts that just couldn't be as easy as is written in the book (the way the mob accepted everything that Cole said), but this doesn't mean that is a boring story. Albeit is a good reading is not the best of this californian detective, may be is a good beach read, or in a long flight when you can read a while and rest a while.
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Summary: Elvis Cole returns, sort of...
Review: This is a reprint of a previously published Elvis Cole novel, originally out in the mid-90's. It's worth a second look though, especially if you like mysteries and didn't read it the first time around. Elvis Cole is a private eye in West L.A. He has an office decorated with Disney figures (and a Jiminy Cricket clock) and a gun, and when things get tough he has a strange, enigmatic partner named Joe Pike, whose solution to problems usually involves shooting them. Cole does the detecting, Pike the heavy lifting, and of course the obligatory humor. In this installment, Cole is approached by three children who wish to hire him to find their father. Initially put off by being hired by kids, he's persuaded when his girlfriend looks the situation over and decides that the kids are alright, they just need their dad. Soon, things take a nasty turn, as it develops that the Russian mob is also looking for the father. Throw in some right-wing Vietnamese revolutionaries, various Federal agents, and settings from the San Fernando Valley to Disneyland, and you get an interesting novel, complete with shootouts and much suspense. Oh, and Elvis's girlfriend turns out to have an ex-husband with a very long reach, and some powerful friends, and he makes things interesting too. I've enjoyed this series since it started. I would highly recommend this book, and the series. You don't have to (really) read any of the other books before this one, though Voodoo River might not be a bad idea, so that you understand the relationship between Elvis and Lucy (the girlfriend).
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Summary: A Cut Above the Rest!
Review: This was probably my least favorite Elvis Cole novel by Crais. That said, his average novel is better than most. Elvis is drawn into a mystery when three kids show up at his office asking for assistance in finding their missing Father. As Elvis investigates, he finds himself into a mystery involving Russian mobsters, Vietnamese revolutionaries and the Witness Protection Progam.
Elvis enlists Joe Pike of course and we delve deeper into Elvis' relationship with Lucy Chenier. Keep 'em coming Robert.
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