In the mid-eighties, feeling constrained by the collaborative working requirements of Hollywood, Crais resigned from a lucrative position as a contract writer and television producer in order to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a novelist. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues, but is most proud of his 4-hour NBC miniseries, Cross of Fire, which the New York Times declared: 'A searing and powerful documentation of the Ku Klux Klan’s rise to national prominence in the 20s.' Parker, and John Steinbeck.Īfter years of amateur film-making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976 where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice, as well as numerous series pilots and Movies-of-the-Week for the major networks. Other literary influences include Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. He purchased a secondhand paperback of Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister when he was fifteen, which inspired his lifelong love of writing, Los Angeles, and the literature of crime fiction.

A native of Louisiana, he grew up on the banks of the Mississippi River in a blue collar family of oil refinery workers and police officers.

Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. Rollins closes in for the kill, Elvis and Joe join forces with Scott and Maggie to follow a trail of lies where no one is who they claim - and the very woman they promised to save might get them all killed. Sworn to secrecy by his client, Elvis finds himself targeted by the police even as Mr. Rollins has a rule: Never leave a witness alive.įor all of them, the night is only beginning. Scott is now the only person who can identify him, but Mr. Rollins, a killer who leaves behind a brutally murdered body and enough explosives to destroy the neighborhood. Only the house isn’t ordinary, and the people hiding inside are a desperate fugitive and a murderous criminal with his own dangerous secrets.Īs helicopters swirl overhead, Scott and Maggie track the fugitive to this same house, coming face-to-face with Mr. When Elvis Cole is secretly hired to find a grief-stricken mother, he’s led to an ordinary house on a rainy night in Echo Park. Loyalty, commitment, and the fight for justice have always driven Elvis Cole and Joe Pike.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Robert Crais.

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