title: Robert Crais CD Collection: The Last Detective, The Forgotten Man, Hostage (Elvis Cole Novels)
author:  Robert Crais 
description: Robert Crais is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. He is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including The Two Minute Rule, The Forgotten Man, and L.A. Requiem.
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  ## The Forgotten Man
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Robert Crais
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Crais's latest L.A.-based crime novel featuring super-sleuth Elvis Cole blends
  high-powered action, a commanding cast and a touch of dark humor to excellent
  dramatic effect. One morning at four, Cole gets a call from the LAPD informing
  him that a murdered John Doe has claimed, with his dying breath, to be Cole's
  father, a man Cole has never met. Cole immediately gets to work gathering
  evidence on the dead man – Herbert Faustina, aka George Reinnike – while
  cramping the style of the assigned detective, Jeff Pardy. Though Cole finds
  Reinnike's motel room key at the crime scene, the puzzle pieces are tough to
  put together, even with the unfailing help of partner Joe Pike and feisty ex-
  Bomb Squad techie Carol Starkey, who's so smitten with Cole that she can't
  think of him without smiling. Days of smart sleuthing work take the self-
  proclaimed "World's Greatest Detective" from a 