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The Watchman

A Joe Pike Novel

By Robert Crais

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| eBook | 9781416538578

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The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers. Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if runn Continue


The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers. Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation. For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can't protect her, Larkin's wealthy family turns to the one man money can't buy -- Joe Pike. Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He's an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike's LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike. Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike's biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life...and love.

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  • THE WATCHMAN

    Those who have pegged Robert Crais as “superb” and his characters, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, as “unique” have got it wrong. Both the author and his creations are much more than that. They are exceptional and, in The Watchman, Crais proves it. For Elvi ... (read full critics)

    shotsmag published on Wed, 29 Sep 2010

  • The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel-- book review

    The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel Robert Crais Simon & Schuster Hardcover 304 pages February 2007 The Watchman by Robert Crais is his greatest edge-of-your-seat thriller to date. P.I. Elvis Cole usually takes center stage in Crais’s books; this time, hi ... (read full critics)

    curledup published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

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  • Joe Pike has been a secondary character...

    Joe Pike has been a secondary character in the highly enjoyable Elvis Cole series of author Robert Crais. The series about ever wise-cracking Cole with support from the ever enigmatic Joe Pike has continued to get better and better. This book focuses on Pike and reveals much of his background. Pi ... (continue)

    Joe Pike has been a secondary character in the highly enjoyable Elvis Cole series of author Robert Crais. The series about ever wise-cracking Cole with support from the ever enigmatic Joe Pike has continued to get better and better. This book focuses on Pike and reveals much of his background. Pike is an old fashioned hero in a modern world. He wants to serve and protect those who are weaker and in need, going ever forward by his moral code, propelled by his own hellacious past.

    If I had never read of him in the Cole novels perhaps I would not have liked this quite as much, but I did and I do.

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