Elvis Cole and Joe Pike · Book 9
The Last Detective
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 302
- ISBN-13
- 9780385504270
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Detective (2003, 302 pages) is book 9 of the Elvis Cole series, from the run following L.A. Requiem (1999) that's markedly darker and more character-driven, as Elvis's and Pike's real psychological damage keeps surfacing across the books.
Its place in Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
The Last Detective is book 9 in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series. It follows L.A. Requiem. It is followed by The Forgotten Man. See the full Elvis Cole and Joe Pike reading order.
Elvis Cole is a wisecracking Los Angeles private investigator -- Disney-loving, Jiminy Cricket clock on his desk, quick with a quip -- whose cases start out looking like standard missing-person or custody jobs and reliably escalate into something much darker: organized crime, government cover-ups, cartel violence. His silent partner Joe Pike, an ex-Marine and former cop with twin red arrow tattoos and a moral code as rigid as his gun discipline, does the parts of the job that require someone who isn't afraid to…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385504270
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345451903
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781890885144