About the Author

Robert Crais is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, many of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Quincy, Baretta, and L.A. Law. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues, and one of his standalone novels, Hostage, was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis. His novels have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

“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 . . . definitely new.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Robert Crais is one of the rising young stars of the private eye genre . . . Devottees of the rock ‘em, sock ‘em school should find [Stalking the Angel] tasty.”—The San Diego Union

Hard-nosed private detective Elvis Cole returns ( The Monkey's Raincoat ) to do battle for a teenaged girl kidnapped as part of a scheme involving the theft of a priceless Japanese manuscript outlining samurai behavior. While Cole's wry sarcasm and attempts at ``cute'' often fall flat, his humanity and integrity carry him through an apparently convoluted but mostly transparent plot. Los Angeles settings, Japanese heavies, wild action, and businesslike prose, however, make this better than many.

"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 . . . definitely new."-The Wall Street Journal

"Robert Crais is one of the rising young stars of the private eye genre . . . Devottees of the rock 'em, sock 'em school should find [Stalking the Angel] tasty."-The San Diego Union