Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel by Robert Crais
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Book Reviews of Indigo Slam: An Elvis Cole Novel
Book Review: Elvis Cole Fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Elvis Cole, World's Greatest Detective. Need I say more? Who could possibly be more entertaining than a wise cracking LA PI named Elvis?Book Review: Counterfeiter
Summary: 4 Stars
Three children and their father are moving. To each of them two boxes for belongings have been assigned. The destination is Salt Lake City. At the new location different names are to be taken. The move is to take place under the auspices of the U.S. Marshals.
Three years later the children are in Los Angeles consulting Elvis Cole because the father has disappeared. Since they are minors Elvis follows them to learn that they are living in a house in seemingly decent circumstances. The children used the family car to find his office. He agrees to take the case for a reduced fee and will not contact the child welfare authorities at the present time.
The investigation creates a need to travel to Seattle to visit a former associate of the father It is learned that the father was a printer and a counterfeiter. He may be on the run from a Ukranian, a Russian mob. Elvis runs into federal agents in Seattle who are pursuing the case.
Days later Elvis sees the three children and the father in California. Later a partner of the father is found to have been tortured to death. A part of the equation bearing upon current circumstances and mysteries is that the father has cancer.
The PI, Elvis Cole, is an outstanding character. The story is exciting.
Book Review: Gripping
Summary: 4 Stars
This Elvis Cole/Joe Pike story is more gripping than most others, and one recommended.The story has an interesting beginning when a teen-age girl,
taking care of her two younger siblings, comes into Cole's office and tries to hire him to find her missing father. This
improbable request is initially denied, but Cole's soft heart
leads him into a mystery that grows by the day.
The father turns out to be truly missing, and the trail leads
to a Seattle counterfeiting operation for the Russian mob,
and before Cole knows what is going on, he is arrested by the
feds and knocked around by a team of US Marshals.
And that is just the beginning.
The action leads from Seattle back to the large L.A. area, and
the search generates more threats and banging-around, and Cole,
and then his partner, Pike, end up taking shots from Orientals
as well as Russians, while dodging both the Secret Service and
the US Marshals, and the complex conflicts taxes even these
best of private detectives.
And the kids of the missing man keep getting in the way as
well, and there is considerable interesting reading here,
and this book is recommended.
Book Review: Elvis is in the building and we win again...
Summary: 4 Stars
Mr. Crais knows how to write. If you enjoy detective suspense as a genre, you'll like this book. It has all you could want, a likeable hero, a fascinating sidekick, several emotionally appealing protagonists, some characters that fall into a gray love/hate area, and two different sets of antagonists, each scary-bad in totally different ways.
What starts out as a simple missing person case that should have been a snap, turns into a nightmare of complications, including three children desperate to avoid Child Protection Services, counterfeiting, the Russian mob, and the Federal Witness Protection program. At the same time, our hero's love life, seeming so rosy in the beginning of the story, becomes instead a bad dream, with the ex-husband creating an epic and nasty power struggle for control of his child and former wife. The action is fast, intricate, and the pages keep turning while time slips away.
The lead character, Elvis Cole, and his sidekick, Joe Pike, are extremely appealing characters. They are variously clever, witty, charming, stoic, morally upright, and very good at what they do. This is one of their best outings so far. Thank you, Mr. Crais.
Book Review: Another Solid Performance
Summary: 4 Stars
Crais' Elvis Cole series does not have a weak link. This was another typically strong effort. Although you need not have read prior books in the series, it would not hurt to know the characters. The author does ot leave his characters stagnant but continues to make them grow so you feel you know them personally.In Elvis Cole, Crais somehow combines the hard-boiled LA private eye of the old-time genre with a character who possesses sympathy and a sense of humor. All his characters are believable. With the exception of his partner, Pike, there are never any superhuman efforts.
In Indigo Slam, Crais has woven a terrific plot with twists that just keep coming. Not only does the mystery plot twist and turn, but so do the characters. Until the very end, the reader never really knows about either the plot nor the characters.
If you are an ardent reader of this series (as I am), you will be pleased to know that this is one of the better ones. If you have never read the series, be ready for some very enjoyable mystery reading.