Devon Connor knows her son, Tyson, is
up to something. She thinks that her son is involved with drug dealers in some
way as she has found money and more in his room including a Rolex. She wants
private detective Elvis Cole to find out what her son is doing.
It does not take the world’s greatest
detective long to figure out that Tyson, as well as his girlfriend, Amber, and another teen, Alec, are actually
involved in burglaries. They have been taking expensive stuff from various
houses. For the teens it is a rush and a game. For somebody they stole from it
was very personal and that party has the resources to have them found, the
property recovered, and the thieves dealt with in a very permanent way.
Until that happens, the two man hit
team hired to find the stolen item will stack bodies in their hunt. It isn’t
long before Elvis and the killers cross paths and the chaos begins to build.
Good thing Cole has Pike to balance the odds a little bit.
The Wanted by Robert Crais is a
fast paced thrill ride from start to finish. The read shifts nearly every
chapter to a different character or characters as the chase winds across the Los
Angeles area. What was taken and what it means is at the heart of a story where
almost all the bad guys are identified from the start. Instead, the point of
the read is building suspense as Elvis and Pike try to keep the clients alive
and figure out what they want back and more.
While The Wanted is the latest
in the Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, it can easily be read as a standalone. There
are hardly any backstory references in the book so reading this one first for
readers new to the series would not be a hindrance. Readers of the series to
this point should understand that while the tale is a good one, there is less
meat on the bones here in terms of other characters being developed. For the
most part, the secondary characters tend to be stock characters and at times a
bit clichéd. The Wanted is one of those books that you read that is written
in such a way that would be easy for Hollywood to make a movie.
Despite all of that, for what it is, The
Wanted by Robert Crais is a pretty good read. It keeps the action
moving forward at a strong pace and author Robert Crais does a good job of escalating
things as needed. While not nearly as good as earlier books in the series, it
is a good read and worth your time.
The Wanted: An Elvis
Cole and Joe Pike Novel
Robert Crais
G. P. Putnam’s Sons (Penguin
Random House LLC)
December 2017
ISBN# 978-0-399-16150-6
Hardback (also available in audio and
eBook formats)
332 Pages
$28.00
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