22 December 2011

Book Review: The First Rule by Robert Crais


Another in the superb Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series, this one focusing on Joe Pike.

One of his former mercenary colleagues is killed in his own home by gunmen, along with the rest of the family including the maid. It soon becomes clear that the focus is not on the family they turn out to be collateral damage, but the focus is on the maid.

The maid is Serbian and it is what she had that the killers were after. Pike seeks revenge for his friend and he is led into the murky underworld of gangsters and gun runners. The worst of the worst. Pike also stumbles into an investigation by the FBI too and they turn a blind eye to the killing spree that Pike goes on, plenty of blood-letting in this book.

Pike shows his emotional side in this novel and his caring side too. There is less jokiness about this novel but it is a good read nonetheless.

8/10 for me.

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