Just keeps getting better and betterDAVID BALDACCI ';Slick and enjoyable'SUN Top-notch fun noirSUNDAY TIMESCRIME CLUB(starred review)DESPERATE MEN ARE DANGEROUS . . .Joe Pike wasnt looking to save someones life on the day he left the bank. But when he saw Isabel, a young teller, being forced into a car by two men, he had no choice but to chase them down. Not long after being released on bail, the men are found dead and Isabel is missing. After his handling of the men, Pike is a prime suspect, along with Izzy was this an abduction gone wrong? Or did it go exactly how she planned? Convinced that her life is in danger, Pike involves Elvis Cole in a search for the truth, and for Izzy. But they're not the only ones desperate to find her and desperate men are dangerous.As explosive as Michael Connelly and as addictive as Lee Child, A Dangerous Manhas the smoothest writing and best storytelling youll ever read (DAVID BALDACCI) *THE NEW COLE AND PIKE THRILLER*Why Crais is the King of Crime . . . Bob is like a Porsche when it comes to writing. Indeed, its quite fitting that he drives that model of car. Like the Porsche, his writing is elegant, stylish, funny, can fire on turbos when need be and dive deep when the plot demands it, but this is far and away some of the smoothest writing and best storytelling youll ever read.Hes written a lot of books, but just keeps getting better and betterDAVID BALDACCI ';[Crais] expertly delivers his customary modern-day riff on the 1940s hardboiled idiom' GuardianOutstandingPublishers Weekly(starred review) ';Another rewarding page-turner by one of the most reliable storytellers in modern crime fiction' Daily Mail Crais is a whip-smart writer. Cole and Pike are carefully drawn, multilayered characters whove grown more complex through the years. This is one of the very best entries in a long-running and still first-rate seriesBooklist onA Dangerous Man(starred review) ';Cleverly plotted, stylishly written' Washington Post If youve always wishedLee Childs Jack Reacher had a little more balance in his life - but the same formidable talents - youll love Joe Pike and the latest book in this long, superb series . . . Crais never loses control of his clean, clear prose or his ability to sketch fully fleshed characters in a few scenes . . . A taut, exceptional thrillerKirkus on A Dangerous Man(starred review)