Stalking the Angel

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Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. Hes a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.

The blonde who walked into Coles office was the bestlooking woman hed 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 valuablesomething that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.

Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture hed learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot about crooksand what he didnt 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, its just another days 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

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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

Author Bio

Robert Craisis the #1New York Timesbestselling author of more than twenty novels, many of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series asHill Street Blues,Cagney & Lacey,Miami Vice,Quincy,Baretta, andL.A. Law. He received an Emmy nomination for his work onHill Street Blues, and one of his standalone novels,Hostage, was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis. His novels have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Los Angeles.