The Promise, Robert Crais
The Promise, Robert Crais
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The Promise

Author: Robert Crais

Narrator: Luke Daniels, MacLeod Andrews

Abridged: 5 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/10/2015


Synopsis

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed...Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives—and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

About Robert Crais

Robert Crais is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently Suspect and Taken. This is his twentieth novel. He lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by James on December 20, 2022

In this novel, Robert Crais's long-time series protagonist, Elvis Cole, teams up with Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie, who were first introduced in Suspect. A woman named Meryl Lawrence hires Elvis, swearing him to unusually tight secrecy. She says she's worried about a woman named Amy Bresl......more

Goodreads review by Tucker on November 13, 2015

This is a difficult book for me to review because Robert Crais is one of my favorite authors and Elvis and Pike are two of my favorite fictional characters. It’s been more than three years since the last Elvis/Pike novel—and maybe that’s why I feel so disappointed with The Promise. I expected a lot......more

Goodreads review by Lo9man88 on July 07, 2018

Man, my heart went out to Maggie and Amy... A great book as always , i enjoyed the investigation, the characters and the plot, once i started it i just couldn't put it down til the end : good one Mr Crais.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on April 11, 2018

As I continue my random meanderings through this series I was surprised to come across a title that included characters I knew from an earlier, stand alone, book from this author: police dog handler Scott James and his German Shepherd dog, Maggie. I’d really enjoyed Scott and Maggie’s previous adven......more

Goodreads review by D.B. on April 01, 2016

When Crais opens the novel with a Los Angeles private investigator, a police officer and his K-9 partner Maggie, a convicted fugitive, a missing woman, and a sadistic killer, The Promise unarguably holds some. But, ultimately, as with the laws of physics, what goes up must come down. While the novel......more