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An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel

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  • “Quick,
  • cutting
  • wit
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • a
  • keen
  • ear.”—The
  • New
  • York
  • Times
  • Book
  • ReviewHollywood’s
  • newest
  • wunderkind
  • is
  • Peter
  • Alan
  • Nelsen,
  • the
  • brilliant,
  • erratic
  • director
  • known
  • as
  • the
  • King
  • of
  • Adventure.His
  • films
  • make
  • billions,
  • but
  • his
  • manners
  • make
  • enemies.
  • What
  • the
  • boy
  • king
  • wants,
  • he
  • gets,
  • and
  • what
  • Nelsen
  • wants
  • is
  • for
  • Elvis
  • to
  • comb
  • the
  • country
  • for
  • the
  • wife
  • and
  • infant
  • child
  • the
  • film-school
  • flunkout
  • dumped
  • en
  • route
  • to
  • becoming
  • the
  • third-biggest
  • filmmaker
  • in
  • America.
  • It’s
  • the
  • kind
  • of
  • case
  • Cole
  • can
  • handle
  • in
  • his
  • sleep—until
  • it
  • turns
  • out
  • to
  • be
  • a
  • nightmare.
  • For
  • when
  • Cole
  • finds
  • Nelsen’s
  • ex-wife
  • in
  • a
  • small
  • Connecticut
  • town,
  • she’s
  • nothing
  • like
  • he
  • expects.
  • She
  • has
  • some
  • unwanted—and
  • very
  • nasty—mob
  • connections,
  • which
  • means
  • Elvis
  • could
  • be
  • opening
  • an
  • East
  • Coast
  • branch
  • of
  • his
  • P.I.
  • office...at
  • the
  • bottom
  • of
  • the
  • Hudson
  • River.“Elvis
  • [Cole]
  • is
  • the
  • greatest
  • .
  • .
  • .
  • [
  • he
  • is]
  • perhaps
  • the
  • best
  • detective
  • to
  • come
  • along
  • since
  • Travis
  • McGee.”—San
  • Diego
  • Tribune“[Crais
  • is]
  • far
  • better
  • at
  • the
  • private-eye-novel
  • racket
  • than
  • most writers.”—Newsweek
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