The Watchman (A Joe Pike Novel)
Category: Fiction: Mystery & Suspense
Author: Robert Crais
Copyright/published Year: 2007 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 9780743281638
Binding: Cloth
Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers
for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through
the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after
red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of
nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion
of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other
victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal
investigation.
For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the
right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities,
she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when
the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can't
protect her, Larkin's wealthy family turns to the one man money
can't buy -- Joe Pike.
Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills.
He's an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a
favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of
the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike's LAPD training
officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is
Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for
self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike.
Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they
immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them
out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the
grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike
fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private
investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and
betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not
who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike's biggest threat
might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of
Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach
her the value of life...and love.
Condition Information
This is a used book.
Very good condition.
Condition Description
2007 hardcover. Clean andf lightly read/shelved.
