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Elvis Cole et Joe PikeSéries

Cette série suit un détective privé vif et cynique et son partenaire imposant et énigmatique alors qu'ils naviguent dans le paysage traître de Los Angeles. Opérant dans l'ombre d'Hollywood, ils s'attaquent à des affaires complexes qui exposent le côté sombre de la ville. Chaque épisode offre un suspense palpitant, des intrigues complexes et une exploration captivante de la loyauté et de la justice. Les amateurs de fiction policière dure seront attirés par leur univers.

Taken
The Monkey's Raincoat
Sunset Express
Indigo Slam
L. A. Requiem
Die gefährlichen Wege des Elvis Cole. Elivs Cole und Joe Pike Band 1

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  1. 1

    The Monkey's Raincoat

    • 256pages
    • 9 heures de lecture
    4,0(16169)Évaluer

    When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-deco office, she's lost something very valuable - her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of Hollywood's studio lots and sculptured lawns soon leads them deep into a nasty netherworld of drugs and sex - and murder. Now the case is getting interesting, but it's also turned ugly. Because everybody, from cops to starlets to crooks, has declared war on Ellen and Elvis.

    The Monkey's Raincoat
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  3. 2

    Stalking the Angel

    An Elvis Cole Novel

    4,0(10828)Évaluer

    The second blistering Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE FIRST RULE. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he'd learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didn't know, his sidekick Joe Pike did. Together, Cole and Pike begin their search in L.A.'s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza - and find themselves caught up in a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession. Just another day's work for Elvis Cole...

    Stalking the Angel
  4. 3

    Lullaby Town

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,1(9792)Évaluer

    Reissue of the third Elvis Cole novel from the bestselling author of THE WATCHMAN. Peter Alan Nelsen is a super-successful movie director who is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants now is to find the wife and infant child he dumped on the road to fame. It's the kind of case that Cole could handle in his sleep, except that when Cole actually finds Nelsen's ex-wife, everything takes on nightmarish proportions - a nightmare which involves Cole with a nasty New York mob family and a psycho killer who is the son of the godfather. And when the unpredictable Nelsen charges in, an explosive situation blows sky-high.

    Lullaby Town
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    Free Fall

    4,1(10423)Évaluer

    Elvis Cole investigates a case that erupts in gang violence in South Central Los Angeles.

    Free Fall
  7. 5

    Voodoo river

    • 293pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,2(10604)Évaluer

    Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress in a hit TV show, Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodi's biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of the actress's background, he is up against a whole host of eccentrics, including a crazed Raid-spraying housewife, a Cajun thug who looks like he's been made out of spare parts, and a menacing hundred-year-old river turtle named Luther. As Elvis learns about the enigmatic actress's origins, he also discovers the real reason he's been sent to Louisiana . . .

    Voodoo river
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    Sunset Express

    • 325pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,2(13199)Évaluer

    It's a headline case: a famous restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife. His celebrity defence team is the best in the business, and they want PI Elvis Cole on the case - to find proof that LAPD Detective Angela Rossi manipulated the evidence. Rossi has been accused of planting evidence before, and it killed her career. Now it's rumoured she'll do anything to make a comeback - even framing an innocent man. But as Cole digs deeper, he learns that in the high-profile world of big-money law, the truth can be bought with blood.

    Sunset Express
  9. 7

    Indigo Slam

    • 304pages
    • 11 heures de lecture
    4,2(10390)Évaluer

    Fifteen-year-old Teri Hewitt has been left holding the babies since her dad, Clark, disappeared without trace. She wants LA private eye Elvis Cole to find him, and although he knows he should refuse and hand it over to social services, he finds himself taking on the case. The search reveals a chronically unemployed drug addict caught up in counterfeiting scams and mixed up with the Russian mafia and Vietnamese gunmen. As the action heads towards a gunfight in Disneyland and Cole dodges his almost-girlfriend's ex-husband, he realises Teri is one whole lot of trouble he should have left to the professionals.

    Indigo Slam
  10. 8

    L. A. Requiem

    • 539pages
    • 19 heures de lecture
    4,2(484)Évaluer

    Quand Karen Garcia, fille du richissime Franck Garda, est retrouvée morte, une balle dans la tête, près de la retenue de Lake Hollywood, son père fait appel au détective Joe Pike, ancien petit ami de la victime, et à son associé Elvis Cole. Mais Pike est la bête noire de tous les flics de Los Angeles : personne n'a oublié son renvoi fracassant de la police, des années plus tôt, après la mort mystérieuse de son équipier lors de l'arrestation d'un pédophile. En première ligne face à des officiers étrangement peu coopérants, Cole va faire ses propres recherches... Des recherches qui l'entraînent jusque dans le passé trouble de son associé et meilleur ami. Pike est-il réellement impliqué dans l'affaire en cours ? Ou la proie d'une terrible vengeance ?

    L. A. Requiem
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    The Last Detective

    4,1(272)Évaluer

    Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with his life as a PI on the streets of LA. He loves his girlfriend, Lucy Chenier, but his constant exposure to the Californian underclasses has stretched their relationship to the limit - especially when Cole's job brings danger too close to her beloved son. The young boy, Ben, is rapidly becoming the light in both their lives. Then one sunny afternoon, the demons from Elvis's past finally come to visit. Ben is snatched from Cole's secluded home. The kidnappers call. They don't want money. They only want retribution. But who from his past is capable of such a crime? The only clue is that the kidnappers mention the words 'five-two'. Five-two was his unit designation in Vietnam - a life he has avoided thinking about for over twenty years. But now he must embark on a journey into his own past to try to protect his future. For it seems that this kidnapper is not only someone who knows him, but someone who owes him.

    The Last Detective
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    The watchman

    4,1(291)Évaluer

    A long time ago, Joe Pike asked for help. In return, he would, one day, be called upon to return the favour, no questions asked. That day has come. Joe Pike is asked to protect the life of Larkin Conner Barkley, a spoiled rich girl who happens to be a federal witness in a major case. But someone is leaking information about their whereabouts, and the killers are getting all too close. So Pike he hatches a plan: disappear into the anonymous underbelly of Los Angeles, turn the tables, and hunt down the hunters. Enlisting the help of Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals; even the cops aren't who they seem. But as the body count rises, it becomes clear that Pike's biggest threat may be the girl herself - an edgy, yet intensely vulnerable soul determined to destroy herself, unless Joe can fill the void in her bruised heart.

    The watchman
  14. 12

    Chasing darkness

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,0(96)Évaluer

    It is fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the Police and Fire Departments evacuate the inhabitants, they find something no one expected: the days-old corpse of a middle-aged recluse who apparently committed suicide. Then comes an even more horrible discovery. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. Each photograph was taken only moments after the women were killed, and could only have been taken by the killer. One murder per year for seven years, their bodies found in different parts of the city. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders. But now with the discovery of the 'death album' there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases but, with evidence supplied by Elvis Cole, in the end he walked free. That suspect was the suicide now discovered in the fire...and now the police are out for Cole...

    Chasing darkness
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    The Sentry

    4,2(17445)Évaluer

    Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store

    The Sentry
  17. 15

    Taken

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,1(177)Évaluer

    Joe Pike must take on his toughest challenge yet. He must hunt down and rescue . . . Elvis Cole. A nail-biting Cole and Pike novel from the No. 1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author.

    Taken
  18. 16

    The Promise

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture
    4,2(636)Évaluer

    The gripping new novel from the master of the intelligent action thriller and author of SUSPECT, Robert Crais.

    The Promise
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    The Wanted

    3,8(85)Évaluer

    The New York Times bestselling novel by beloved author Robert Crais. No one knows their child better than a mother. But every kid has secrets... secrets even a mother shouldn't know.

    The Wanted
  20. 18

    A Dangerous Man

    • 339pages
    • 12 heures de lecture
    4,2(774)Évaluer

    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?

    A Dangerous Man