Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, in the new masterpiece of suspense from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.
Loyalty, commitment, the fight against injustice―these are the things that have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. If they make a promise, they keep it. Even if it could get them killed.
When Elvis Cole is hired to locate a woman who may have disappeared with a stranger she met online, it seems like an ordinary case―until Elvis learns the missing woman worked for a defense contractor and was being blackmailed to supply explosives components for a person or persons unknown.
Meanwhile, in another part of the city, LAPD officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, enter an abandoned building to locate an armed and dangerous thief, only to discover far more than they expected: The fugitive is dead, the building is filled with explosives, and Scott and Maggie are assaulted by a hidden man who escapes in the chaos, all as a bloodied Joe Pike watches from the shadows.
Soon, Scott and Maggie find themselves targeted by that man, and, as their case intertwines with Elvis and Joe’s, joining forces to follow the trail of the missing woman as well. From inner-city drug traffickers to a shadowy group of Afghan war veterans with ties to a terrorist cell, the people they encounter on that trail add up to ever-increasing odds, and soon the four of them are fighting to find the woman not only before she is killed…but before the same fate happens to one of them.
Elvis, Joe And More–The Gang’s All Here! “The Promise” is Robert Crais’s latest Elvis Cole/Joe Pike thriller and Crais surprises the reader by bringing in their black ops mercenary friend, Jon Stone and LAPD K-9 officer, Scott James and his dog, Maggie (see “Suspect” by Crais). With all his signature characters in one novel–it better be a good one. And it is! It a little slow getting off the ground, due in part to introduce so many characters, and then it takes off on a wild white knuckle ride to an intense but…
Elvis, Joe, and Jon are joined by Scott and Maggie. Elvis Cole stepped in the middle of a huge problem when he took on Meryl Lawrence as a client. What she wanted was for Cole to find where her missing friend and co-worker had gone after she embezzled a whole lot of money from the company they work for. Meryl thinks Amy Breslyn took the money because she met a man and he talked her into doing it. She wants Cole to find the identity of the man which will lead to the whereabouts of Amy. Elvis has worked with some squirrely clients before, but…
A bit of a letdown from someone capable of much better. I’m a huge and long time Robert Crais fan and so hold him to an extremely high standard and this book, frankly, fell short of that which he is capable. There is a whole lot less personality to Elvis and Pike – Pike is almost an afterthought at times and Cole’s sense of humor has mostly vanished. The story line at times felt disjointed while at the same time having a very predictable conclusion.Â