I have always loved men with an 'edge'. Bogie, Sean Connery, Steve McQueen, Bruce Willis, Daniel Craig . . . You get the picture. I suppose that is why I like detective stories. PI's tend to have that edge.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are private investigators and do have an edginess. They are hired by a successful Latino woman to find her missing daughter. The woman believes her daughter is faking her abduction to get money to marry her boyfriend. The girl is an honor student at Loyola Marymount and Cole doesn't think that adds up. Soon it becomes apparent that this abduction is no fake. Both the girl and her boyfriend have become the prisoners of bajadores who steal immigrants bound for the US border and hold them for ransom. Something, it seems, that is a huge and profitable business.
There are twists and turns, one being the true identity of the girl's boyfriend and another being the presence of Korean Mafia. Some of the violence and graphic scenes are not for everyone. This book is tense, fast paced and filled with edgy agents, detectives and mercenaries.
I liked it . . .
This is the fifth book of the series but can be read separate from the others with no problem. Each case in the five books can stand easily alone. Reads like an action movie, including the mayhem and chases.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are private investigators and do have an edginess. They are hired by a successful Latino woman to find her missing daughter. The woman believes her daughter is faking her abduction to get money to marry her boyfriend. The girl is an honor student at Loyola Marymount and Cole doesn't think that adds up. Soon it becomes apparent that this abduction is no fake. Both the girl and her boyfriend have become the prisoners of bajadores who steal immigrants bound for the US border and hold them for ransom. Something, it seems, that is a huge and profitable business.
There are twists and turns, one being the true identity of the girl's boyfriend and another being the presence of Korean Mafia. Some of the violence and graphic scenes are not for everyone. This book is tense, fast paced and filled with edgy agents, detectives and mercenaries.
I liked it . . .
This is the fifth book of the series but can be read separate from the others with no problem. Each case in the five books can stand easily alone. Reads like an action movie, including the mayhem and chases.
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