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Title: Indigo Slam by Robert Crais ISBN: 0-345-43564-8 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.15 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nothing is What it Seems in this Super Thriller
Comment: It was plant day in Los Angeles, at least that what Private Investigator Elvis Cole calls the day of the month that he waters his dying plants. Elvis isn't good with plants. Anyway he's busy caring for them when Teresa, Charles and Winona Haines walk into his office. They want Elvis to find their father. Elvis doesn't work for children, so he sends them away. However, after they leave he realizes that he's screwed up. The kids were obviously in trouble, had come to him for help and he'd failed them. He rushes downstairs in time to see fifteen-year-old Teresa pull away from the curb. He dashes to his car and follows, thinking that the girl, who is too young to drive, has a lot on her young shoulders.
He decides to help the children and Teresa pulls a wad of hundred dollar bills from her purse, but he tells her he won't take money from her, she insists and he accepts two of the bills and leaves, thinking it'll be an easy job. But as usual in a Robert Crais detective thriller, things are not always as they seem.
Elvis goes to the print shop where Charles Haines, the errant father, works and finds out he was fired because the boss caught him shooting up. The kid's father is a junky and that's the last thing Elvis wants to tell them. From the phone bill he learns Charles called Seattle several times, so he flies up there on his own nickle, asks questions and is kidnapped, beat up and almost killed by Russian mobsters who want to know why Elvis is asking question about Charles, who's last name by the way isn't Haines, but Hewitt. Fortunately he's saved at the last minute by U.S. Marshals who want to know the same thing.
Elvis figures out that Charles had flown the coup from the federal witness program. That he was a big time counterfeiter and that some very bad guys want him dead and that they'll kill anybody who gets in their way. Fortunately, Elvis has his pal, the quiet and broody Pike to watch his back.
And thus it begins, the twists and turns of a Robert Crais novel where, as I said above, nothing is as it seems. Just when you think you've got a handle on the story it takes a quick right turn and you're slapping yourself upside the head, murmuring, "Why didn't I see that?" INDIGO SLAM, like every book Robert Crais has written, is a five star read, one that won't let you sleep, eat or go to work until you finish, it's that good.
Reviewed by Vesta Irene
Rating: 5
Summary: Elvis Cole Fan
Comment: Elvis Cole, World's Greatest Detective. Need I say more? Who could possibly be more entertaining than a wise cracking LA PI named Elvis?
Rating: 3
Summary: Chinese Dinner
Comment: Two of my favorite Elvis adventures are "The Monkey's Raincoat" and "L.A. Requiem." "The Last Detective" is likewise very well written. This isn't. Elvis takes another case for nothing. He must not only be the World's Greatest Detective, but the The World's Greatest Detective Who Doesn't Need Any Money, too. Like a blue collar boxer from the east coast who tires in anonimity, taking the wrong fights for the right reason, you keep hoping he'll have a million dollar payday sometime.
Here, Elvis helps three children find their lost father on the run from the Russian Mob. It's a nice twist and Robert Crais, as always, pulls it off well.
But the children are tedious. One acts out and curses constantly. You're hoping that the mob gets him. The father is tedious. He complains from page five and we have him figured out by page fifteen. Joe is tedious. He lacks that hard, scary edge that never fails to interest us. Here he has one liners that are a cross between Clint Eastwood and Jack Benny. Heavily armed.
Not a page turner and a book that would be a poor place to start what is a very well written series. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike maybe the best series around. "Indigo Slam" isn't.
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Title: Voodoo River by Robert Crais ISBN: 0786889055 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Free Fall by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553565095 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553286447 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Lullaby Town by Robert Crais ISBN: 0553299514 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 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): $7.99 |
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