El Manuscrito Samurai / Stalking the Angel

from col2910

Blurb....Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he did...

from johnbsheridan

The second book in the Elvis Cole series is definitely a step forward from the first one maybe a few too many wisecracks from Elvis while his partner, Joe Pike, comes across as too one-dimensional perhaps cliched. The novel picks up pace in the last third as the chase unfolds but doesn't become p...

from lindasbooks

This is the 2nd book in the Elvis Cole detective series. Cole is hired by a wealthy businessman to retrieve a very valuable original Japanese document that was stolen while on loan. Japanese mafia, sex scandal, family secrets, kidnapped girl, Cole is on the trail. That Elvis Cole is something els...

from AliceAnna

I really like Crais. Elvis and Pike are such wonderfully written characters. They are real to me, even though Pike could easily be written as a very one-dimensional character. The juxtaposition of humor and the dark side of humanity somehow works. Some of these characters were so evil, not by des...

from Bettesbooks

Elvis Cole or Hound Dog as Lou Poitras calls him, is the PI you call when you want something found. But, if you are in trouble he is there for you as long and as much as it takes. Many twists and turns here, and I frequently didn't know what was true and what wasn't. The suspense is low-key but a...