Copyright 2015 by Robert Crais. Published by G.P. Putnam & Sons, New York.
Robert Crais spins some good yarns. His most popular books are those featuring Elvis Cole, the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest detective” and Joe Pike who defies a simple description. Maybe “mysterious mercenary?” He is an iconoclast, for sure, and has amazing skills at tracking people.
Cole and Pike team up in this one to track Amy Breslyn, a woman who has apparently stolen over $400,000 and is making explosives to sell to Al Qaeda. Or is she? As becomes apparent, she is not the only mysterious woman in this story as the woman who hired Cole to find Breslyn is more than a bit mysterious herself.
Without going into details, Cole and Pike find themselves getting involved in a DHS investigation and a K-9 officer who is also embroiled in the whole thing is nearly canned for helping Cole and Pike. And nearly killed too. But it all comes out well in the end.
It is an entertaining story and it has those short chapters that I like. The chapters are written from the perspective of one of the main characters – Cole, Pike, James (the K-9) officer and the main evildoer. But there are also a few chapters written from the perspective of the dog. Yes, folks, you can finally learn what a dog is thinking.
That was a bit much for me.
4 out of 10.