- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion (April 8 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786862610
- ISBN-13: 978-0786862610
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #714,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Readers who complain that there's too much wisecracking and cute icon worship in Robert Crais's books about Los Angeles private eye Elvis Cole will be glad to find these traits downplayed (but not totally disappeared) in this story about Cole's search for a missing printer whose specialty is funny money. The book is centered by the presence of the printer's three children--especially the motherly 15-year-old Teri and the obnoxious 12-year-old Charles--who hire Elvis from the phone book. Cole, hoping to become the stepfather of the son of his own lady love, gets sucked in by the children's combination of need and family unity, and soon finds himself in the middle of a shooting war between Russian gangsters, Vietnamese patriots, and ambiguous Federal agents. Previous Elvis outings in paperback: Sunset Express, Free Fall, Lullaby Town, The Monkey's Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Voodoo River.
From Library Journal
Having made it big with his last Elvis Cole mystery (Sunset Express, Hyperion, 1996), Crais here puts Cole on the track of a missing father who seems to have criminal connections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A real disappointment -- save your money,
By A Customer
This review is from: Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
I've enjoyed the Elvis Cole series but this was indeed a sub-subpar effort. Even for what is expected to be a "light read," there was nothing remotely credible about the plot or the characters. Improbable, unlikely -- the willing suspension of disbelief can only be stretched so thin.The bit about the mysterious klling machine partner (Pike) who always shows up at the right time is also getting tedious and makes Harvey the six-foot rabbit seemed grounded in reality. Let's face it -- characters like Pike and Hawk (in the Spenser series) are as pathetic fantasies as anything found in some bodice-ripping romance novel. Buy Michael Connelly's latest (or any book of his) rather than this book. For real writing, emotion and character development there is just no comparison.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Gripping,
By bill runyon (Indiana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel (Mass Market Paperback)
This Elvis Cole/Joe Pike story is more gripping than most others, and one recommended.The story has an interesting beginning when a teen-age girl, taking care of her two younger siblings, comes into Cole's office and tries to hire him to find her missing father. This improbable request is initially denied, but Cole's soft heart leads him into a mystery that grows by the day. The father turns out to be truly missing, and the trail leads to a Seattle counterfeiting operation for the Russian mob, and before Cole knows what is going on, he is arrested by the feds and knocked around by a team of US Marshals. And that is just the beginning. The action leads from Seattle back to the large L.A. area, and the search generates more threats and banging-around, and Cole, and then his partner, Pike, end up taking shots from Orientals as well as Russians, while dodging both the Secret Service and the US Marshals, and the complex conflicts taxes even these best of private detectives. And the kids of the missing man keep getting in the way as well, and there is considerable interesting reading here, and this book is recommended.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good BOT,
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This review is from: Indigo Slam (Audio Cassette)
I liked this BOT (book on tape.) The only negetive thing I have to say is that the format of using 2 tracks per side (1 on right side and 1 on the left side of stereo) has some draw backs. but the price savings of this feature are nice.
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