Stalking the Angel: 2 (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel) - Softcover

Crais, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553286447 ISBN 13: 9780553286441

Publisher: Crimeline, 1992

Synopsis

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

About this title

Product Description:

Hired by a hotel magnate to locate a priceless Japanese manuscript, L.A. private eye Elvis Cole encounters the notorious Yakuza, the Japanese Mob, and is drawn into a game of sexual obsession, amorality, and evil.

Review:

"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 . . . definitely new."--The Wall Street Journal

"Robert Crais is one of the rising young stars of the private eye genre . . . Devottees of the rock 'em, sock 'em school should find [Stalking the Angel] tasty."--The San Diego Union

About this edition

• Publisher: Crimeline
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0553286447
• ISBN 13: 9780553286441
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 288