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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345434470
ISBN number: 0345434471
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: February 01, 2000
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Sale Popularity Level: 10106
Studio: Ballantine Books
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The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead, brutally murdered with a gun shot to the head.
Now Karen's powerful father calls on Pike (a former cop) and his partner, Elvis Cole, to keep an eye on the LAPD as they search for his daughter's killer--because in the luminous City of Angels, everyone has secrets, and even the mighty blue have something to hide. But what starts as a little procedural hand-holding turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. For a dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole's twelve-year friendship--if not their lives. And L.A. just might be singing their dirge.
Amazon.com Review:
More than 10 years ago, I was shocked to learn that some puerile piece of fluff had won the Edgar for Best Paperback Original, when it was so obvious to me and virtually everyone else in the Western Hemisphere that the award should have gone to The Monkey's Raincoat, the book that introduced Elvis Cole, private eye, and is to this day one of the funniest books I've ever read.
The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it's a cliché, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with L.A. Requiem. It's not as funny as the other books in the series, but it's a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that's what elevates this book to the level of literature.
This one is more about Joe Pike, Elvis's silent sidekick, than it is about Elvis. We learn, through Pike's own eyes, how his childhood made him the way he is today. It's also about a friendship so strong that it threatens Elvis's relationship with his beloved Lucy. It is a tender but dark book--a serial killer book--but it doesn't endeavor to outgross the other serial killer books on the shelf. It is funny at times and chilling at other times, making it one of the rare books that can't help but linger in the memory long after it's been read and put away. --Otto Penzler
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There are fewer and fewer really good thriller writers around, many thrillers are published, but dont live up to expectations!! this is a good one I must say. Crais books are always a decent read. If your into action thrillers look at the `Soft Target` trilogy by Conrad Jones, brilliant new author. Lee Childs latest was a let down but Connelly`s overlook was a good thriller too.
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This book is cheap, slow and boring...
Like a bad hollywood movie, it's filled with flat characters and has no real style at all.
Nothing creative, new, surprising or engaging...
For amazing popular literature, there's the one and only
ELMORE LEONARD...
the great LEE CHILD
and others like STEPHEN KING (not my favorite, but a great writer nonetheless)
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The Best of Robert Crais' Elvis Cole's novels. I enjoyed this novel most because of more participation of Joe Pike. I like Elvis alot, but I just love Joe!. I hope that Crais writes another novel with Joe Pike as his primary subject. And I also love the Elvis character when he's funny and sarcastic, and funny. This is a very, very wonderful read. One you almost do not want to finish reading it.
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Many readers consider LA REQUIEM to be the best in Robert Crais's "Elvis Cole" series about a private detective working in LA. Having read this book, and the seven Cole novels that preceded it, I'm inclined to agree.
Crais is an unusally good writer of prose, but he is rather formulaic in his storylines. If you read his very first seven Cole novels, they are all novels that follow a distinct pattern, and Crais rarely strays outside those lines. The result is usually an entertaining read, but a somewhat predictable one, with Elvis Cole serving as an invulnerable, wisecracking superhero.
With LA REQUIEM, Crais adopts a riskier approach, and jettisons much of the sophomoric humour that dominated the earlier Cole novels. The tone of this novel is darker and far more serious. Instead of Cole narrating the entire book, the reader is exposed to multiple perspectives. The supporting characterization is less cartoonish and more complex. Cole is also far more emotionally vulnerable in this novel, and his sidekick Pike becomes much more three dimensional as his backstory is fully revealed. The result is a crime novel that is richer and more satisfying than anything Crais has done before.
LA REQUIEM is an excellent read, although I wouldn't rank it along with the very best, like Thomas Harris's RED DRAGON, Dennis Lehane's MYSTIC RIVER, or Michael Connely's THE POET. Whatever his strengths, Crais just can't match the emotional depth of those great writers. Still, this is an excellent thriller, and it proves the point that Crais is one of the strongest writers in the genre.
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This is my very first Joe Pike/Elvis Cole novel and I got to say Mr. Crais please make room for one more on your bandwagon.
This was my very first novel from him and it won't be my last. Now I got to go back and read all the his books featuring Elvis Cole.
Highly recommended!
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