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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInvestigator Elvis Cole and his partner Joe Pike take on the deadliest case of their lives in the new masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais.It seemed like a simple case—before the bodies started piling up... When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it’s because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she’s afraid he’s dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two others, he’s been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear.They stole the wrong thing from the wrong man, and, determined to get it back, he has hired two men who are smart and brutal and the best at what they do.To even the odds, Cole brings in his friend Joe Pike, but even the two of them together may be overmatched. The police don’t want them anywhere near the investigation, the teenagers refuse to be found, and the hired killers are leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Pretty soon, they’ll find out everything they need to know to track the kids down—and then nothing that Elvis or Joe can do may make any difference. It might even get them killed.
I have read all of Crais’s novels, beginning with THE MONKEY’S RAINCOAT. Elvis Cole (twice the king) has changed a bit over the course of the series. His avenging angel partner, Joe Pike, has come to the fore and Elvis is less of a wise-cracking jokester and more of a serious investigator. His new novel, THE WANTED, is interesting in its conception. On the one hand it is a very conventional novel. A private detective is engaged on a case and, as Robert Parker put it, goes around and talks to a lot of people before solving it. The case here, however, is quirky and fresh. A single mother has found an expensive Rolex in her teenage son’s possession and suspects that all is not right. She hires Elvis to sort things out.Actually, her son is a part-time burglar, hitting high-end homes in the platinum triangle and suddenly finding himself with tens of thousands of dollars in cash and goods--enough, perhaps, to make him less geeky and more popular, particularly with his two partners, one of whom (Amber) is particularly attractive.Unfortunately, the young man (‘Tyson’) has stolen something of immense but not immediately apparent value from an individual with a dark secret and the financial means to suppress it. He has hired two tough guys to find the juvenile burglars, secure the lost item and then dispatch them with extreme prejudice. Elvis is caught in the middle and the local cops are threatening to arrest him as an obstructor, an accessory, etc. etc. unless he plays ball with them. Elvis being Elvis he is able to keep a lot of people at bay and a lot of balls in the air. When it comes to the bad guys he is not alone. He has Joe Pike.The result is a novel that begins a bit slowly and strangely (given the situation) that then accelerates very nicely and ends in a very satisfying crescendo. In the process we see a lot of the City of the Angels, which Crais knows very, very well, meet some interesting people, perhaps even find a future romantic relationship for Elvis and watch a clever cat-and-mice game involving the cops, the Cole, the bad guys and an overweight geek/techie who calls himself ‘The Carl’.All of Crais’s novels are cleverly wrought. He is a mainstay in the world of crime fiction. This is one of his very best.Five stars; highly recommended.
