Robert Crais: Stalking the Angel, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Stalking the Angel
- An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group, 01/2020
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780593157169
- Item number:
- 9479653
- Weight:
- 159 g
- Format:
- 191 x 106 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 28.1.2020
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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
Biography
Robert Crais begann seine Karriere als Serienschreiber, bis er sich dem Verfassen von Kriminalromanen widmete. Diese wurden mit zahlreichen wichtigen Auszeichnungen der Kriminalliteratur vielfach nominiert und ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2014 wurde er mit dem Edgar Award für sein Lebenswerk geehrt. Heute lebt der Autor mit seiner Familie in Santa Monica, Kalifornien
