Title: Don't judge Crais by this effort
Product review: Robert Crais has written several Elvis Cole novels, which I have read and immensely enjoyed. He has always mixed a good measure of humor with the serious elements of his plots and his characters and made it work. Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are the best detective duo since Spenser and Hawk were created. Maybe better. This book is something else altogether. It has a dark plot and even darker characters. The bombers, bombing victims and bomb squad detectives that people this novel are collectively a sad bunch of misfits, cretins, liars and losers. They are all basically unlikable and the distinction between the good guys and the bad guys is blurred. I managed to struggle through Demolition Angel, but if this were the first novel by Robert Crais I doubt that I would ever read another. Fortunately, I know for a fact that Crais is one of the very top fiction writers out there, and I will no-less-eagerly await his next effort.
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