Review
Comment: Los Angeles, 3:58 a.m.: Elvis Cole receives the phone call he's been waiting
for since childhood. Responding to a gunshot, the LAPD has found an injured man
in an alleyway. He has told the officer on the scene that he is looking for his
son, Elvis Cole. Minutes later, the man is dead.
Haunted throughout his life by a lack of knowledge about his father, Elvis turns
to the one person who can help him navigate the minefield of his past— his
longtime partner and confidant, Joe Pike. Together with hard-edged LAPD
detective, Carol Starkey, they launch a feverish search for the dead man's
identity—even as Elvis struggles between wanting to believe he's found his
father at last and allowing his suspicions to hold him back. With each
long-buried clue they unearth, a frightening picture begins to emerge about who
the dead man might have...
Beyond the Book
Before Crais published his first standalone thriller,
Demolition
Angel, in 2000, followed by
Hostage in 2001, he wrote a series
of eight books featuring Elvis Cole, a 'sensitive and wisecracking
collector of Disneyana' and his 'heavy-artillery partner, Joe Pike', set
in the seamy streets of Los Angeles. In 2003 he returned to the series
with
The Last Detective. The
Forgotten Man is the 10th in the series
.
- The Monkey's Raincoat (1987)
- Stalking the Angel (1989)
- Lullaby Town (1992)
- Free Fall (1993)
- Voodoo River (1995)
...
