'The smoothest writing andbest storytelling you'll ever read . . . Just keeps gettingbetter and better' DAVID BALDACCI 

'You can always rely on Elvis Cole and Joe Pike fortop-notch fun noir. . . This tale opens with aJack Reacher-esque set-up' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB (starred review)

THE NEW ELVIS COLE AND JOE PIKE THRILLER

Joe Pikedidn’t want to run into trouble that day – he was just going to the bank. But when Isabel, a young teller, is forced into a car by two men, he has no choice but to step in. After chasing them down, he retrieves the terrified woman and the men are arrested.

Not long after they are released on bail, the men are found dead, each with a single gunshot wound to the head, and Isabel is missing. After his handling of the men, Pike is a prime suspect, along with Izzy – was this an abduction gone wrong, or did it go exactly how she planned?

Pike, convinced that her life is in danger, involvesElvis Colein a search for the truth, and for Izzy. But they’re not the only ones desperate to find her – and desperate men are dangerous.

* * * Praise forA Dangerous Man and Robert Crais * * *'Bob is like a Porsche when it comes to writing. Indeed, it's quite fitting that he drives that model of car. Like the Porsche, his writing iselegant,stylish,funny, can fire on turbos when need be and dive deep when the plot demands it, butthis is far and away some of the smoothest writing and best storytelling you'll ever read. He's written a lot of books, but just keeps getting better and better' DAVID BALDACCI 

'Outstanding. . . Crais begins the story with deceptive simplicity butslowly ratchets up both the tension and the actionwith surgical precision . . . This one’s sure to hit the bestseller charts' Publishers Weekly (starred review)

'Crais is awhip-smartwriter. Cole and Pike are carefully drawn, multilayered characters who've grown more complex through the years. This isone of the very best entries in a long-running and still first-rate series' Bookliston A Dangerous Man (starred review)
'If you've always wished Lee Child's Jack Reacherhad a little more balance in his life - but the same formidable talents -you'll love Joe Pike and the latest book in this long, superb series. . . Crais never loses control of his clean, clear prose or his ability to sketch fully fleshed characters in a few scenes . . .A taut, exceptional thriller' KirkusonA Dangerous Man (starred review)

‘[Crais] expertly delivers hiscustomary modern-day riffon the 1940s hardboiled idiom’Guardian
 
‘Anotherrewarding page-turnerby one of the most reliable storytellers in modern crime fiction’Daily Mail
 
‘Cleverly plotted, stylishly written’Washington Post