"Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this brilliant new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais"--

Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.

"When single mother Devon Connor hires private investigator Elvis Cole, it's because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she's afraid he's dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two other partners in crime, he's been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear. They stole the wrong thing from the wrong...

When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers...

Nita Morales no parece muy preocupada cuando contrata a Elvis Cole. Ha recibido una llamada pidiendo un rescate por su hija a la que supuestamente han secuestrado, pero ella esta segura de que se trata de un engano, de que su hija se ha marchado por voluntad propia con su novio y de que los jovenes solo quieren sacarle dinero: <>. Poco desues, sin embargo, Elvis...

Dru Rayne y su tío huyeron a Los Angeles tras el desastre causado por el huracán Katrina. Sin embargo, tras cinco años en la ciudad, se enfrentan a un nuevo peligro. Cuando Joe Pike es testigo de como le dan una paliza al tío de Dru, les ofrece su ayuda, pero ninguno de ellos la acepta y tampoco le dan ninguna explicación de por qué hay unos misteriosos agentes del FBI siguiendoles los pasos. Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who...

"Having cleared a man of a murder charge three years earlier, Elvis Cole and his sideick, Joe Pike, find themselves on trial when the former defendant is found dead holding photographs of the victim he had been accused of killing."