Robert Crais Livres

Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including L.A. Requiem and Voodoo River), he produced Demolition Angel, his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one.Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley's back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there's something in Walter Smith's house that a ruthless Mob boss wants, and he'll sacrifice anyone to get it--which puts Talley's own family in danger.

Quand Karen Garcia, fille du richissime Franck Garda, est retrouvée morte, une balle dans la tête, près de la retenue de Lake Hollywood, son père fait appel au détective Joe Pike, ancien petit ami de la victime, et à son associé Elvis Cole. Mais Pike est la bête noire de tous les flics de Los Angeles : personne n'a oublié son renvoi fracassant de la police, des années plus tôt, après la mort mystérieuse de son équipier lors de l'arrestation d'un pédophile. En première ligne face à des officiers étrangement peu coopérants, Cole va faire ses propres recherches... Des recherches qui l'entraînent jusque dans le passé trouble de son associé et meilleur ami. Pike est-il réellement impliqué dans l'affaire en cours ? Ou la proie d'une terrible vengeance ?

À Los Angeles, Frank Meyer, un homme d'affaires, est tué avec sa famille par des braqueurs. L'enquêteur Terrio, sans pistes, découvre un lien entre la victime et Joe Pike, un ancien mercenaire. Pike est déterminé à venger la mort de Meyer.

Il existe une règle d'or chez les braqueurs de banque : ne jamais rester plus de deux minutes sur le lieu du crime, sinon c'est la prison. Max Holman en a fait les frais... Dix ans plus tard, lors de sa libération, il s'apprête à renouer avec son fils Richie dont il ne sait plus rien, sauf qu'il est devenu policier. Mais au lieu des retrouvailles, il découvre que Richie a été abattu en service. Déterminé à le venger, Max se met en chasse des meurtriers et fait appel à la dernière personne en qui il a encore confiance : Katherine Pollard, ancien agent du FBI, celle-là même qui l'avait arrêté. A eux deux, ils vont mettre le doigt dans un engrenage infernal où sont impliquées des huiles de la police de Los Angeles...

Carol Starkey is a bomb squad veteran now doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the detonation that killed Carol's partner and lover, but she is still severely scarred both mentally and physically. She can't bear to look in the mirror, and she hasn't been with another man since David Boudreaux left her bed that last morning he went to work. She gets through the day with the help of Tagamet and alcohol. When a bomb call takes the life of another colleague, Carol begins to investigate a series of explosions that seem to be designed to exterminate bomb technicians. She soon realizes that she's "the one that got away." With the help of an FBI agent whom she loathes professionally for interfering with her job but finds attractive anyway, Carol must track down one of the most frighteningly brilliant killers of the modern age.

Six months after nearly losing everything to the men who kidnapped his girlfriend's ten-year-old son, Elvis Cole is slowly coming back to life - when he receives an ominous phone call from the LAPD. An unidentified body has been found in a seedy Los Angeles alley. The only clue the cops have is a packet of newspaper articles about the past exploits of Elvis Cole - and the fact that before the man died, he said he was Elvis's father . . . Joe Pike is the only person who can help Elvis navigate his past. As they investigate, Elvis is haunted by the fact that, at last, he might have found his father. But with each clue they uncover, a troubling picture emerges about the dead man. And as Elvis and Joe approach his true identity, they unwittingly walk straight into a hornet's nest.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed... Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. 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. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.