The Watchman
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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 manufacturing accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the additional 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 tree 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 terrible 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 take in 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 a name 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 quick, 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 largest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to ruin herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life…and like.
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I can’t judge I’d ever say there is a Crais novel out there I didn’t like… but this was just is not excellent. Primarily, for me, it was the plot. Too many characters that I establish extremely hard to follow. The switching points of view didn’t flow well either. Every character in this novel seemed to have a better understanding of what was going on with drug cartels and shaddy characters besides me and the girl which had nothing to do with understanding Joe.
Do I have a better understanding of Joe? Sure. But I could have read just a book of flashbacks and been fine with that.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
As a longtime fan of Robert Crais who enjoys Joe Pike and Elvis Cole tales, I establish this one disappointing in terms of writing, character development and plot. Any writer who can only come up with (as tiny as)”a postage stamp,” not once, but twice, is being bone idle (and needs an editor). Similarly, as far as characters, our heroine’s (would-be victim) development went about as far as a 15 second report on Entertainment Tonight. Gee, a sexy rich girl who’s legendary for being legendary and whose father owns (among additional things) hotels: Marvel who that could be? And, wow, the father has some disreputable business dealings himself!! Who’d have thought? Forget this one – dunno how it garnered a four-and-a- half star rating, and go for earlier books, which really are excellent.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
you don’t see. Familiarity breeds… You know that sometimes what we don’t know is more entertaining than when we get the back tale. Somehow following Pike around lessens his impact. Well done but. See if you don’t agree.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I have never read this leader before and felt the book was average
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Robert Crais should take a long trip, and rethink what he’s doing.
Joe Pike is a compelling character ( as is Elvis Cole) and the flashback background pieces on Pike work well in the book, showing Crais’ best writing side, but otherwise all the additional key characters are poorly sketched, and the writing to support the lame tale line is pathetic — like a imitation of terrible screenplays Crais may have written and discarded.
The picture on the back of the book show Crais projecting supercool, with Pike sunglasses. Maybe less self-regard, and better writing next time.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5