A native of Louisiana, he grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a blue collar family of oil refinery workers and police officers. Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. With the mob and the cops soon on the scene, it seems like there's no way out of the nightmarish three-way stand-off. The accountant works for the mafia and holds all the local family's financial records. But the gang have picked the wrong house. Hostage - When a convenience store robbery goes horribly wrong, the teenagers responsible make a run for it and crash into the nearby home of an accountant, taking the family hostage. When a special agent discovers the link behind the bombs that are killing his team, he knows he must set a trap-with human bait.

Along the way he will match himself against the best-an elite team of FBI bomb technicians.

It is a talent which he fully expects will take him onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. (Elvis Cole, #8 originally published 1999)ĭemolition Angel - John Michael Fowles has a natural gift: he understands explosives. But nailing the murderer will mean choosing between the two people he cares about most. Cole has his doubts, and it's down to him to reveal the killer. It seems that Karen may be the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin the blame on a witness. Requiem - Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops - so he turns to Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.

L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais