Crais has been giving Pike more attention in recent work (like last year’s “The First Rule”), and in “The Sentry” Pike’s story starts on a mundane, warm day in Venice.

Novelist Robert Crais' "The Sentry" showcases his character Joe Pike, an ultracool strongman whose weak spot for a young woman causes complications. Crais appears at noon Friday, Jan. 14, at ...

The Sentry Robert Crais, Putnam, $26.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-399-15707-3. ... Robert Crais. MWA Grandmaster Crais is at the top of his game in his 16th Elvis Cole novel (after 2012’s Taken).

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Crais is an excellent plotter who never lets his story get away from him, but there's lots of talk and no real tension in "The Sentry." ... Fiction review: 'The Sentry' by Robert Crais.

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Cole and Pike are back! Though “The Sentry” by Robert Crais deals primarily with Joe Pike and his attraction to a woman who nearly gets him killed, Elvis Cole enters the story at the halfway ...

Robert Crais. Putnam. $26.95. 320 pp.In many ways, the laconic Joe Pike has been the sentry of Robert Crais’ 14-novel series.A stoic loner, ...

Master of crime fiction Robert Crais continues his dominance with “The Sentry,” his latest novel featuring Joe Pike. Pike is filling up the gas tank of his jeep when he sees several men in ...

Former LAPD detective and all-round tough guy Joe Pike is in a Mobil gas station putting air in the tyres of his gleaming red jeep when he notices two young Mexican gangsters entering a sandwich ...

Joe Pike, the central character in Robert Crais’s thriller The Sentry, is in for a wild ride this time out. That’s because nothing and no one is what they seem to be in the latest fast-paced ...