The
Wanted: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel – Robert Crais (G. P. Putnam)
Someone is robbing rich people. Unfortunately for them,
they robbed the wrong rich person and took the wrong thing. Now, the hunt is an
and it’s a race to see who can find the robbers first.
That really sums up the latest Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
novel, The Wanted from veteran
thriller writer Robert Crais. The Wanted is
chock full of disparate and desperate characters, each colorful in their own
unique way. Cole is hired by a desperate mom, just trying to get to the bottom
of the story behind some high end goods she finds in her troubled teen’s
bedroom.
Elvis does what he does best in trying to pull together
the pieces of the story and find her missing son and a pair of troublesome teen
partners in crime. The problem is every step of the way a pair of bad guys
hired by an aggrieved billionaire, “one big, the other one bigger” who seem to
be one step ahead of him while pulling on the threads of the story and trying
to track down the erstwhile criminals.
While it’s been a while since I’ve worked my way
through a Crais novel, I found this one just about right; a quick read perfect
for this time of year when you don’t want to get into something too heavy. For
me it ticked all the boxes; good story,
entertaining characters and just enough unexpected twists and turns to hold my
attention right through the final pages.
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