Elvis Cole and Joe Pike · Book 1
The Monkey's Raincoat
- Published
- 1 January 1987
- Pages
- 245
- ISBN-13
- 9780752881140
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Monkey's Raincoat (1987, 245 pages) is book 1 of Robert Crais's Elvis Cole series, from the earlier run of lighter, comedy-inflected PI novels -- Elvis's wisecracking case-work backed up by his near-silent partner Joe Pike, before L.A. Requiem (1999) pushed the series darker.
Its place in Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
The Monkey's Raincoat is book 1 in the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike series. It is followed by Stalking the Angel. 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 9780752881140
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553263367
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9785550521878