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The sentry

Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he...

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Main Author: Crais, Robert.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.
Series: Joe Pike novel ; 3.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel ; 14.
Subjects:
Pike, Joe > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Cole, Elvis > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > California > Los Angeles > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > California.
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Summary: Dru Rayne and her uncle are Louisiana refugees who relocated to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years after the storm, their struggling restaurant faces a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a neighborhood gang intent on extorting protection money, he offers his own brand of protection. But neither Dru nor her uncle want his help--and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their store.
Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780399157073
0399157077
Author Notes: Robert Crais was born in 1953 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before becoming a writer, he was a mechanical engineer. In 1976, he began writing scripts for television series including Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, and Hill Street Blues. He is the author of the Elvis Cole series and the Joe Pike series. The Monkey's Raincoat won the Anthony and Macavity Awards in 1988. In 2005, his novel Hostage was adapted into a movie starring Bruce Willis. He is the 2006 recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award. In 2017 his title, The First Rule, made the IBook Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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