Stalking the Angel, Robert Crais
Stalking the Angel, Robert Crais
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Stalking the Angel

Author: Robert Crais

Narrator: David Stuart

Abridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/25/2006

Synopsis

Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wise-creacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the best looking 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

About Robert Crais

Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L.A. Requiem.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on December 03, 2020

This is my second time reading this novel and, to be honest, I didn't enjoy it as much as I remembered from the first time around. Part of the problem is the protagonist, Elvis Cole, who is a relentless, non-stop smartass. I almost always enjoy a good smartass private detective, but the problem is t......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 27, 2022

I’d read the first book in the long running Elvis Cole series some years ago. I can’t remember much about it but I haven’t been back for the second episode, so that tells me something. But I really enjoyed Suspect by the same author and I thought it was about time I gave Elvis a second chance. In cas......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on September 19, 2015

Damn it, Robert Crais. I really want to like you, but two books in and this still feels like awkward blind dating rather than true love. Elvis Cole is hired by wealthy Bradley Warren to recover a rare Japanese manuscript that has been stolen. Warren only cares about using the manuscript to impress hi......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 16, 2020

This second Elvis Cole and Joe Pike mystery is as good as the first; together they make a strong beginning to this detective series. Elvis is hired to locate a medieval Japanese manuscript stolen from the home-safe of a wealthy—and arrogant—Los Angeles entrepreneur. Early in his search, Elvis uncover......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on July 03, 2018

'Stalking the Angel' is the second book in the Cole mystery series, but I feel it is a standalone read. The first one in the series, The Monkey's Raincoat, goes into the backstories of Elvis Cole and his partner, Joe Pike, both of whom are Vietnam ex-military veterans, but I don't think it is necess......more

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