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Los Angeles is a city of perpetual reinvention. Inviting, with a promise of infinite hope, it can also be a glittering landscape of debilitating isolation. The city's lost souls take comfort in its promise--the notion that tomorrow could be the day to start all over again, to transform oneself into someone else. Someone more powerful, more beautiful, more daring. At the core ofL.A. Requiemis Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classicThe Long Goodbye,L.A. Requiemis the apotheosis of Crais's writing career--a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead.

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PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-100385495838

ISBN-139780385495837

eBay Product ID (ePID)444359

Product Key Features

Publication Year1999

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Book TitleL. A. Requiem

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert Crais

Book SeriesElvis Cole Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3in.

Item Length9.2in.

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Width6.1in.

Additional Product Features

LCCN98-052921

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsPraise forL.A. Requiemand Robert Crais: "After Chandler we had James M. Cain and after Cain there was Ross MacDonald and currently we have Robert Crais." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review "One of the best crime novels I've ever read. Absolutely terrific!" --David Baldacci "L.A. Requiemis terrific entertainment and a powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout." --Dean Koontz "The trouble with starting a Robert Crais book is that you just can't put it down until you finish it. Crais is one of the great ones." --Tony Hillerman "Robert Crais--should be mentioned in the same breath as Robert B. Parker, Tony Hillerman, Sue Grafton, and James Lee Burke." --Houston Chronicle "I've been a Robert Crais fan since I first read the galleys ofThe Monkey's Raincoat...Crais is a terrific writer." --Sue Grafton

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Lc Classification NumberPs3553.R264l15 1999

Number of Pages400 Pages