Title: Joe Pike is a compelling character but overall writing is lame
Product review: Robert Crais should take a long vacation, and rethink what he's doing.Joe Pike is a compelling character ( as is Elvis Cole) and the flashback background pieces on Pike work well in the book, showing Crais' best writing side, but otherwise all the other key characters are poorly sketched, and the writing to support the lame story line is pathetic -- like a pastiche of bad screenplays Crais may have written and discarded.The picture on the back of the book show Crais projecting supercool, with Pike sunglasses. Maybe less self-regard, and better writing next time.
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