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| Sunset Express: An Elvis Cole Novel (Elvis Cole Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Crais
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (49 reviews)
Sales Rank: 30338
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
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| Customer Reviews:
Sunset Express May 16, 2008
br / Robert Crais is an excellent writer. Everytime I purchase one ofbr /his books, I can't put it down. RWH
RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "DON'T TRY TO PLANT EVIDENCE WITH ELVIS AND PIKE AROUND!" March 4, 2008
If you see a "MICKEY MOUSE PHONE" on the desk and little figures of "JIMINY CRICKET" on the cabinet and a "PINOCCHIO CLOCK" on the wall with eyes that move SIDE-TO-SIDE, you are most likely in the office of "master" Los Angeles detective Elvis Cole. While in Elvis's office if you see a man who stands about six foot one, with short hair, sinewy muscles, and bright red arrows tattooed on the outside of each deltoid pointing forward, which are a statement of his being, that man is Elvis's partner Joe Pike. If you have the courage to have a conversation with Joe, you'll know you've done well if you receive as much as a miniscule facial tic in return. You are forewarned not to waste your time trying to determine the weather or the time of day by the fact of whether Joe is wearing sunglasses or not. Day or night, winter, summer, or fall, Joe is wearing them and the author hasn't introduced a character yet that would dare question Joe regarding the practicality of his sunglasses in the current time and place.br /br /This particular episode in the ongoing "ELVIS COLE" series by author Robert Crais revolves around the murder of famed restaurant owner Teddy Martin's wife. Teddy's restaurant is the type of place where everyone famous in Los Angeles eats at to be seen, as much as for what they eat. People who are "nobodies" want to eat there to be near "somebody's". Jonathan Green a renowned lawyer known coast to coast for his long list of victories in court as well as for his TV appearances is hired to defend Teddy. Jonathan then hires Elvis to do some professional sleuthing. Before you know it a cop is being framed, people who are known by one name are really someone else, rewards are offered, dupes are framed by scumbags, witnesses are changing their stories faster than your local gas station can raise their gas prices. What makes this story so enjoyable is the quick-witted humor interspersed amongst the skullduggery. Any crime story that can freely sprinkle comments regarding "MOE HOWARD", "FRED MUNSTER", "RALPH CRAMDEN", along with a character who calls his beer a "BREWSCALERO", and also say; "she shook her head, and her lips went WUBBA-WUBBA-WUBBA like a cartoon character", has to be rated above your average crime fiction. And don't forget about "MICKEY MOUSE", "JIMINY CRICKET", and "PINOCCHIO"!br /
 Enjoyed the audiotape May 19, 2007
Lots of the reviews here give this one 3 or 4 stars. Perhaps it was the format, perhaps it was the end of the school year rush for me and the welcome respite this book provided. Perhaps I just liked it better. Nevertheless, it was a good thriller, despite the fact that problems with Elvis and Joe's case are telegraphed from miles away.br /br /My audio version was read by a narrator who has done multiple tours as a reader for Robert B. Parker's Spenser novels. So, the listener is naturally drawn to make comparisons between Elvis Cole/Joe Pike/Lucy and Spenser/Hawk/Susan. Readers familiar with them both can see the analogies already. "Sunset Express" is probably the most Spenser-like of the Cole novels I've read or listened to so far. Lots of relationship discussion (for Cole anyway, a little less than average for Spenser).br /br /I give this one a grade of A-
 Decent May 1, 2007
I'm a big Robert Crais fan but I think he can do better than this one. While it was an exciting read, it was not very original because it draws too many comparisons to the OJ Simpson case. For example, you have a very wealthy man with lots of connections who hires a dream team of a defense counsel to represent him after getting charged with murdering his wife. br /br /Again, there were some good dialog and action scenes but the storyline was not very original.
Easy Entertaining Read March 5, 2007
Elvis Cole is hired by a famous Hollywood lawyer to investigate a police officer who found evidence that led to the arrest of the lawyer's client. The client is a wealthy restaurant owner. As it turns out Elvis is being used by the lawyer. There's lots of things going on and Elvis eventually discovers the truth. His girlfiend Lucy comes for a vist and Joe Pike gets on board the investigation. This is not one of the better Robert Crais's novels but it easy to read and entertaining. ( B).
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