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    A Dangerous Man
    A Dangerous Man
    A Dangerous Man
    Audiobook7 hours

    A Dangerous Man

    Written by Robert Crais

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A brilliant new crime novel from the beloved, bestselling, and award-winning master of the genre--and Joe Pike's most perilous case to date.

    Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to rest, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy.

    After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered and Izzy disappears. Pike calls on his friend, Elvis Cole, to help learn the truth. What Elvis uncovers is a twisted family story that involves corporate whistleblowing, huge amounts of cash, the Witness Relocation Program, and a long line of lies. But what of all that did Izzy know? Is she a perpetrator or a victim? And how far will Joe go to find out?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 6, 2019
    ISBN9781531878337
    A Dangerous Man
    Author

    Robert Crais

    Robert Crais is the author of the bestselling Cole & Pike novels. A native of Louisiana, Crais moved to Hollywood in the late 70s where he began a successful career in television, writing scripts for such major series as Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. In the mid 80s, Crais created a series of crime novels based around the characters Cole & Pike. In addition, Crais has also written several bestselling standalone thrillers. Robert Crais lives in LA with his wife and family.

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    • 5/5
      Too short, good book. Still good book but too short.
    • 4/5
      Quick easy adventure book, two well written main characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. The damsels in distress aren’t the brightest but is is a fun entertaining book.
    • 3/5
      Not being a big fan of mysteries and/or detective stories, I’m not the best audience for this book. I found it mildly engaging with a clever, rather simple plot. Not many surprises in it. The characters were realistic and likable enough. I wouldn’t consider this a “page turner” as some have, but it’s worth a weekend diversion.
    • 5/5
      This book that I learned of at THE BOOK NOOK grabs you and never lets go . The narrator has real skills and just adds to the enjoyment . I can't wait to look for and listen to more books by this author .
    • 5/5
      Wonderful characters Joe and Pike always a twist in the tail
    • 5/5
      Robert Crais always has been a good craftsman, but as he goes on his books have more and more heart. One of my favorite writers. I enjoyed this novel very much.
    • 5/5
      Great Listen! Luke Daniels is a genius! His voicing's are amazing!
    • 5/5
      I have never stayed up to read an entire book before. I'm not one for these types of stories, but I found myself loving it very much. I couldn't stop reading. And with a narrator like Luke Daniels, whom I know from his work on The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne, I knew the book would be well narrated. I was right.
    • 4/5
      Interesting but not terribly original, I like Pike as main character. Could have been a bit longer.
    • 4/5
      The narration brings an OK Cole:Pike installment to life. Felt more like a short story. Waited a long time for a rather thin plot.
    • 3/5
      Not being a big fan of mysteries and/or detective stories, I’m not the best audience for this book. I found it mildly engaging with a clever, rather simple plot. Not many surprises in it. The characters were realistic and likable enough. I wouldn’t consider this a “page turner” as some have, but it’s worth a weekend diversion.
    • 4/5
      I'm a big Robert Crais fan...or actually I'm a big Elvis and Joe fan...but something happened to my two guys...they've undergone a personality change. Izzy was "dizzy". She giggled, she Tweeted constantly and, she was a squealer...basically she was not a good match for Joe unless he's into 13 year olds. Elvis was nearly absent from the story. Can't say it was anywhere near the best that I have read in this series but I was glad to see another book come along. Maybe Joe can drop Izzy off at the senior prom and get back to doing what he and Elvis do best...solve cases. Why the 3.5 rating?...for old times sake and I do have hope. If Joe had just waited I believe the kidnappers would have gladly brought her back:)
    • 5/5
      I've real all of Crais's Elvis Cole & Joe Pike books and they all are page turners. In this novel Isabel Roland is kidnapped in broad daylight. Her captors tell her they know her secret. Izzy has no clue what this secret is. The two men and Izzy are stopped at a red light when Pike rescues her. After action and detective work, the secret is revealed. But who orchestrated the kidnapping in the first place? Filled with action and detective work, A Dangerous Man was a hard book to put down.
    • 4/5
      Robert Crais is just a good writer. He never seems to snare the big headlines of a Sandford, or a Johnson, or even a Connelly. All he does is annually churn out fresh high quality modern day crime noir novels. The latest - A Dangerous Man - is no exception. This time out the story employs the very dangerous enforcer Joe Pike as its primary protagonist. While on a routine trip to the bank, Pike witnesses the inexplicable attempted kidnapping of a young teller. Doing what he does best, Pike rescues her from her would be captors and just like that the game is afoot. When the kidnappers redouble their efforts, Pike brings in his partner Elvis Cole and things proceed to an almost foregone conclusion that takes the reader on a wild and thrilling ride.Sure there are holes in the story leading up to its conclusion, but you don't read books like this one for painstaking reality - you read them for the adrenaline rush, which Crais supplies in spades. In a series that has spanned decades, Robert Crais manages to keep each entry in the Elvis Cole series fresh and unpredictable. For that he deserves both kudos, and even more readers.
    • 4/5
      Robert Crais has a knack for grabbing readers' interest from the first paragraph and “A Dangerous Man” is no exception. Nothing much happened in the three-page introduction, but the description of routine bedtime activities piqued my interest. I expected any second that a gang would burst in and shoot everyone or some other dramatic event. Instead, the young mother awakens her husband on the couch and sends him to bed, checks the doors, her daughter Isabel, and the black 9mm Sig Sauer pistol in the nightstand, and vow to keep her daughter safe before falling asleep. Crais created a ton of mystery in three pages and I couldn’t wait to find out the nature of the unspoken threat.This book follows Crais’ tried and true formula. One of the partners (Joe Pike in this instance) becomes involved in a situation that quickly escalates into a debt of honor commitment. The other partner (Elvis Cole here) joins in the effort to deal with the situation. The police are suspicious or hostile to their efforts and somewhere along the line, John Chen is called upon for his forensic expertise. The number of bad guys escalates (from two to approximately 13 in this instance) and the threat is resolved with the obligatory shoot-out in which all the bad guys are killed, and the victim(s) is/are rescued unharmed. If you are looking for an original plot Crais is not your man. However, just as I continue to take delight in the stunningly beautiful sunsets, I regularly observe from my house overlooking Puget Sound, I still find each Crais novel to be thoroughly enjoyable. His crisp, sardonic wit, inventive use of metaphor, and snappy pacing never fail to please. I’ve read every Crais novel ever published and my only regret is that I will probably have to wait another year for another one to appear.
    • 4/5
      Always great revisiting favorite characters. Elvis and Pike always entertain.
    • 5/5
      This novel starts with Joe going to his bank to deposit a few cheques. As he is pulling out of his parking spot, he thinks he saw the teller that he had just dealt with being abducted from the street in front of the bank. He follows the perpetrators car and rescues the Isobel Roland, young woman.When the two men are released on bail, they are immediately murdered. At first law enforcement suspects Joe but it soon comes out that the Isobel's parents were in the witness protection program and someone is seeking revenge. The problem for Isobel is that she did not know her parent's past. The problem for Joe Pike and Elvis Cole is find out who is after her before they get her.
    • 3/5
      Crime can be just as much 'literary' fiction as anything else. Granted that much is little different from watching the telly but people get high falutin about TV series these days and I'd simply rather read than watch, mainly. And its rarely up its own arse or boring... and even stuff that’s not brilliant can be enjoyable, like 'A Dangerous Man', which is more than can be said for much of the 'over-wrought' stuff that gets so lauded as literature...And at least if you read rather than watch you don’t have to worry about the ending being changed - yes, I’m talking about you "Ordeal by Innocence". Oh the conceit of an adaptor who thinks they know better than the author. Dismissed as 'genre', crime fiction more than a generation ago surpassed literary fiction as a threat to the forests. Today it is so amorphous that there really is little if anything --not even crime-- to link the 'hardboiled' novel with the fat old lady with cats 'cosies'. It is amusing to read the one-star Amazon reviews of recent crime fiction, where books are damned for including 'violence' and 'language'. Crime fiction has had huge influence on literary fiction from Camus to Murakami. As a form it’s incredibly flexible and the perfect vehicle to investigate the working of society be it race, class or sexuality. Ross McDonald, Elroy, chandler, Hammett, James M Cain, Highsmith, Dorothy Hughes, Chester Himes, Walter Moseley - the list is impressive and endless. And that is leaving out Christie and her acolytes and Scandinavian Noir. It’s no surprise that he has powered past so much pretentious and irrelevant literary work. Read 'The Postman Always rings twice' and then read The Outsider. This is not something I'm making up this is something that the article above alludes to and Camus said himself. He was influenced strongly By Cain. Sartre was also strongly influenced by crime fiction in the writing of Nausea. The book 'Looking for the Stranger' by Alice Kaplan, a well-regarded authority on Camus, also mentions the influence of 'The Postman Always rings twice'. Congrats to those who chose "A Dangerous Man" as a crime novel; a lead pipe in the library and a raspberry to those who chose a work of literary fiction which could in no way be defined as a crime novel. After having read more serious stuff lately (6 books on Quantum Physics and the like) I felt the need to lighten up. Should I go down the Mundane or the Crime Fiction Path I asked myself. I gave up with "literary fiction" chiefly because most "literary novelists" write tedious drivel that gets extravagantly overpraised in the press, being reviewed by their backscratching mates inside the tiny cosy literary scenes. After some deep thought, I decided on the latest Crais: “A Dangerous Man”. What’s better than tackling a Crime Fiction novel by none other than one of the so-called Masters of the form? What have I got to report after having finished it? Not much, but I liked the Mystery. A Crime Fiction novel with a good mystery at its centre can still work if the writing is bad as long as the mystery works. Obviously good writing is better but in this kind of book it’s optional. On the other hand, if the mystery is nonsense then no manner of finely tuned phrases are going to cover it up. In the case of the “A Dangerous Man” the murder mystery is quite passable and there isn’t much gruesomeness.
    • 4/5
      Pikecentric Rescue MissionReview of the Audible Audio edition (2019) narrated by Luke Daniels.This was a solid Joe Pike on a protection/rescue mission thriller with investigating partner Elvis Cole playing more of a cameo role, but still managing to get in some of this trademark self-congratulatory witty banter. The narration by now regular Robert Crais reader Luke Daniels was excellent throughout.
    • 5/5
      Two strangers thrust Joe Pike into a convoluted case when they attempt to abduct Isabel Roland as she leaves the bank for her lunch break. Joe rescues her and police arrest the two would-be kidnappers, but those arrests set in motion a chain of events that pull Joe into a case filled with mystery. Joe calls Elvis Cole for help and the two set out to find the truth. But corporate whistle-blowing, huge amounts of cash, and a plethora of lies all combine to leave Joe and Elvis wondering just what the young woman knows and whether she is a victim or a perpetrator. How far will Joe and Elvis go to find the answers?In this, the eighteenth outing for Elvis Cole and the seventh for Joe Pike, readers will discover a new adventure with the two well-established characters. The non-stop action ramps up the suspense and keeps the pages turning. Plot twists and turns move the story in unexpected directions and keep the tension palpable. This compulsive tale will delight fans of the series as well as serving as a great introduction for readers new to the series.Highly recommended.