Stalking the Angel: An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike NovelMeet 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 |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 10 |
Section 3 | 19 |
Section 4 | 28 |
Section 5 | 36 |
Section 6 | 44 |
Section 7 | 52 |
Section 8 | 68 |
Section 20 | 156 |
Section 21 | 162 |
Section 22 | 167 |
Section 23 | 173 |
Section 24 | 179 |
Section 25 | 185 |
Section 26 | 192 |
Section 27 | 201 |
Section 9 | 75 |
Section 10 | 84 |
Section 11 | 91 |
Section 12 | 101 |
Section 13 | 106 |
Section 14 | 112 |
Section 15 | 119 |
Section 16 | 129 |
Section 17 | 134 |
Section 18 | 141 |
Section 19 | 147 |
Section 28 | 209 |
Section 29 | 215 |
Section 30 | 221 |
Section 31 | 228 |
Section 32 | 236 |
Section 33 | 243 |
Section 34 | 253 |
Section 35 | 261 |
Section 36 | 266 |
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