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Title: Hostage by Robert Crais ISBN: 0-345-43449-8 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.1 (114 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Fast, exciting action.
Comment: This is the best thriller that I've ever read! Robert Crais has excelled himself with this story of hostage taking and negotiation. Jeff Talley is a former negotiator with LAPD's SWAT team who has retired to a small town as police chief after the mental strain got to him and destroyed his marriage.Three small time crooks robbed and murdered a store owner and fled to a small community to hide out in a private house. Unfortunately for them, they chose a house of a Mafia accountant who was about to hand over very incriminating records to the Mafia chiefs. Ths accountants house contains a safe room, an elaborate security system and also a huge amount of cash which the trio of crooks are determined to take for themselves.The accountant is bludgeoned into a coma before he can identify himself so that the trio have no idea that they have stumbled into a bigger situatiin than they can handle. Talley is once again forced into the role of negotiator, trying to protect the 2 children of the accountant. It's tightly written with the pace never letting up and it's easy to see it as an action movie.
Rating: 2
Summary: Last Crais book I am buying....
Comment: Demolition Angel and Hostage are basically the same books with name changes. I have been a avid follower of R.Crais books and have enjoyed his series of "Elvis & Joe" books enormously, but his last two books have been really dissapointing.
Hostage not only reads like a screenplay (which it is actually turning into to), but it is BORING as well! Chief of Police Talley is an emotional burnout from the LAPD, who moves to a small town with a police force of only a dozen people. Enter a trio of ridiculous crooks who bumble every crime and a "madman", who is described as a "psychopath", but is a complete dud. The story starts off dull and becomes even more so as it progresses.
The crooks happen to enter a house that has connections to the Mob and the 'Hostage' situation erupts. Talley is completely uncompelling and meanders through every chapter. The subplot with the Mob is totally lame and unlike former Crais books, the 'assassins' are over the top and boring.
If you expected a writing style and wit of the former Crais books, you will be sorely dissapointed. Just like Robert Parker, Crais should not mess with great writing style and humorous characters. His books are now on the more serious side, but do not have the effect of a Michael Connelly or Jeffrey Deaver. I would only buy his books in the future if the Elvis and Joe returned.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: I got this book at the Atlanta airport while my flight was delayed. I had never heard of Crais but I loved this book. It was exciting and had enough twists to keep you guessing until the end.
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Title: Demolition Angel by Robert Crais ISBN: 034543448X Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel by Robert Crais ISBN: 0345435648 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553286447 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Free Fall by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553565095 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais ISBN: 0345434471 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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