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Elvis Cole is back...With his acclaimed bestsellers, *Hostage* (a New York Times Notable Book) and *Demolition Angel*, Robert Crais drew raves for his unstoppable pacing, edgy characterizations, and cinematic prose.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Robert Crais
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 302
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, B E Trice Pub, Doubleday
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780752851983
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“A silence filled the canyon below my house that fall; no hawks floated overhead, the coyotes did not sing, the owl that lived in the tall pine outside my door no longer asked my name.”
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