

The Watchman
Author: Robert Crais
Narrator: James Daniels
Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/27/2007
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Robert Crais
Narrator: James Daniels
Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/27/2007
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
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.
It’s probably a good thing that Robert Crais has a strict policy against selling the film rights to his Elvis Cole and Joe Pike characters because I can see how this could go horribly off the rails in the wrong hands. The bad Hollywood pitch for this movie: “There’s this rich girl, like a Paris Hilto......more
This is (sort of) the eleventh book by Robert Crais featuring L.A. detective Elvis Cole. When we first met Cole in The Monkey's Raincoat, we discovered that he have a (very) silent partner named Joe Pike. Pike has an office next to Cole's, but eleven books into the series, he has never used it. Pike......more
I enjoyed every second of this book. I love the entire Elvis Cole series and I thought it was great that he decided to swap the character focus in this one to Joe Pike. You can't help but wish that life was different for Joe but if it was he wouldn't be Joe Pike...and I'd miss Joe Pike. This is a goo......more
Ok, a few rambling thoughts on Robert Crais. Who is this guy, where'd he come from, how'd he get so popular? Well the first thing to know is that Crais is not from California at all. He is a native of Louisiana, grew up in a blue collar family, and read his first crime novel The Little Sister when h......more
3rd read - Even after multiple readings of this series (like Lucas Davenport and Charlie Parker stories) I still find myself entertained and engaged, hardly being able to hold off rushing to the finish. This is the first story centering on Joe Pike, and his current duties as a bodyguard to a 22 yr ol......more