 | | |
| Sunset Express: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Crais
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
Buy New: $3.63
You Save: $4.36 (55%)
Buy New/Used from $2.48
Avg. Customer Rating:  (48 reviews)
Sales Rank: 24694
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0345454944
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780345454942
ASIN: 0345454944
Publication Date: January 25, 2005
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife?s brutal murder. But he?s not going down without spending a bundle of cash on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Rossi needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal investigation five years ago. But Cole needs to know if she?s desperate enough to falsify the case against Martin in order to secure her own position. As Cole and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media, they begin to suspect that it?s not the police who are behind the setup.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...
 Not unabridged October 8, 2008
This audio book was not listed as abridged. That's why I bought it. If I had known it was abridged I would not have purchased it.
4.5 stars September 4, 2008
I listen to these Robert Crais books as audible books and they are great that way. Strongly recommend.
 Elvis Cole is one of the great detectives August 20, 2008
The more I read Crais's Elvis Cole novels, the more I find myself enjoying them. Sunset Express was no exception. I actually hadn't read the cover copy before I started the book so I was disappointed when it didn't start off sounding like a Cole novel. Never fear, though, Elvis soon enters the story.
He gets used as a pawn in the beginning of the story, but once he starts to figure out what's going on, he's out to set things right and to get justice.
Having already read some of the later Cole books, it was nice to read this earlier one and watch the relationship between Elvis and Lucy Chenier developing.
IMHO, Elvis Cole is second only to Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar as being the most-enjoyable detective to read. I wouldn't miss a book with either one of them in it.
 This Elvis Cole Mystery is a bit on the Silly Side July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Robert Crais is considered one of the best crime fiction writers working today, and I can understand why. He writes in a crisp, entertaining style that keeps me turning the pages. Crais is best known for his "Elvis Cole" series about a private detective in LA, and I'm currently reading the series in order. SUNSET EXPRESS is the sixth book in the series, and it's just an okay read.
SUNSET EXPRESS is a thinly veiled critique of the OJ Simpson trial and verdict, and how a celebrity defendant can manipulate the justice system. In this novel, Cole is hired by a prominent defense attorney who is defending a wealthy restaurenteur accused of murder. Within days, Cole uncovers evidence that could break the case and exculpate the restauranteur. But is the evidence legitimate, or is Cole just a pawn in some larger scheme to hide the truth?
This novel is entertaining enough, but I found some of the twists to be unbeleivable and over-the-top. Crais's major weakness as an author is his tendency to rely on Hollywood-esque plotlines that have little basis in reality. Of course, a novel doesn't have to be realistic to be entertaining, but the cartoonish quality of this book's storyline robs it of any strong emotional punch in the end.
I enjoyed SUNSET EXPRESS well enough, but I think Crais has done better, with earlier Cole novels such as LULLABY TOWN, FREEFALL and VOODOO RIVER.
Sunset Express May 16, 2008
Robert Crais is an excellent writer. Everytime I purchase one of
his books, I can't put it down. RWH
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| | |