Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He�s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up. The blonde who walked into Cole�s office was the bestlooking woman he�d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect �10� was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable�something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he�d learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooks�and what he didn�t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did. Together their search begins in L.A.�s Little Tokyo and the nest of notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder, sexual obsession, and a stunning double-whammy ending. For Elvis Cole, it�s just another day�s work. Praise for Stalking the Angel �Stalking the Angel is a righteous California book: intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean.��James Ellroy �Out on the West Coast, where private eyes thrive like avocado trees, Robert Crais has created an interesting and amusing hero in Elvis Cole.��The Wall Street Journal �Devotees of the rock �em, sock �em school should find [Stalking the Angel] tasty.��The San Diego Union.… (more) |