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Title: Top of the world, Ma
Review: Robert Crais is there. This is his best Elvis Cole novel to date and it's just about perfect. I like a little more retribution when it's called for and I would have added another dab or two of the old ultra-violence, but that's a small cavil. The plotting is exquisite, the characterization touching, and the themes resonant and pulsating. I don't want to spoil anything, but the rearrangement of part of Elvis' life with a look ahead to future plots is wonderfully clever.I am one who thought (as he himself feared) that Crais revealed too much about Joe in the previous novel but the revelations about Elvis here are apt. They work very well, as do further revelations about Joe.Reader warning: this is not the joking, wisecracking Elvis of yore. Things are far more serious this time and the unrelenting plot and dark, driving tone are sustained throughout.Powerful stuff. Bravo, Mr. C.
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