The Promise
Written by Robert Crais
Narrated by Luke Daniels and MacLeod Andrews
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About this audiobook
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.
Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed...
Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives—and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.
Robert Crais
Robert Crais is the author of the bestselling Cole & Pike novels. A native of Louisiana, Crais moved to Hollywood in the late 70s where he began a successful career in television, writing scripts for such major series as Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. In the mid 80s, Crais created a series of crime novels based around the characters Cole & Pike. In addition, Crais has also written several bestselling standalone thrillers. Robert Crais lives in LA with his wife and family.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I love that Elvis, Scott and Maggie are in the same book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I was looking forward to just book since I read the suspect. Having all my favorite characters together in the novel is wonderful. Robert Crais never disappoints.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is another page turner from Crais. In this case, Elvis is asked to find a woman named Amy because she has disappeared with a large amount of money from her government job, Two hours later as he is knocking on the door of a house where he thinks he may find someone who knows where she is, the police surround the house and find dead man inside. Of course they suspect Elvis.This case has all of Elvis' usual friends such as Joe Pike and the mercenary Jon Stone assisting in the investigation. One interesting touch is the inclusion of Maggie, a K-9 dog and her handler, Scott James. Maggie even narrates a couple of chapters to explain how the dog may see the action.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love the dog. Best part of the book. By introducing other characters and people the books stay fresh
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Totally worth the wait. Hope to see more of Scott and Maggie. I love that dog.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 starsP.I. Elvis Cole is investigating, looking for someone at a home where no one answers the door. As he is leaving, police descend and he sees someone run out of the house. He runs after, but is stopped by police officer Scott James and his dog Maggie. There is also someone dead inside and a room full of explosives. Before James ran into Cole, though, he and Maggie came face-to-face with the guy who ran. They clearly saw each other’s faces. This was good. It’s a lot of testosterone, maybe darker than much of what I prefer in a mystery, but what brought the rating up a bit for me was Scott and Maggie. I love their relationship! I also like that we are given the same scene (or important parts of the scene) from a few different perspectives. This is only the second book that follows Scott and Maggie. It’s too bad there aren’t more, as I find them so much more interesting than Elvis Cole and Joe Pike who have far more books in their respective series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I picked up the book because it's book #2 with Scott James & Maggie. I really liked their parts of the book, but wasn't thrilled with the rest of it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5First Robert Crais book. I'm guessing if I'd read at least some of the previous books, I'd have a better handle on the various cast of characters and their backstories, so I'll throw that out there. That's not to say this isn't a standalone book, just that it would have been easier to understand who everyone was and how they all fit in. The plot was okay. An explosives expert wants to find out who killed her son at a suicide bombing in Nigeria. This puts her in the middle of a crime gang in Los Angeles (which seemed a little improbable honestly). Throw in some crooked cops, bombs, and murders and you have this book.I freely admit that Scott James and Maggie were my favorite characters, especially the parts from Maggie's POV. Scott is a K-9 cop and Maggie is his german shepherd trained in bomb-sniffing. I want to go back and read some of their series and maybe some Elvis Cole.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Like a family or class reunion, but where only the people you like showed up. Love this story bringing together all my favorites from Robert Crais' novels. My favorite will continue to be Maggie. Can't get enough of that dog.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What Makes a Writer: "The Promise" by Robert Crais Published November 10th 2015
What is a writer? It is spending time devising plots in a basement with the help of a dictionary. And why do they do that? Why not do something else? What makes a writer? He could be doing something else, he could be picking mushrooms. But instead, he’s in his basement hammering the keyboard. Why? Doesn’t he have anything better to do, or anything else he can do? It’s a way of passing time for him, but not for some readers.
If you're into bad writing, read on. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a great Elvis Cole and Joe Pike novel. Crais also brings in his character Scot James and his K-9 partner Scott James and Maggie, Cole makes a promise that could get them all killed. A very good read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very good Crais. Too much police dog, not enough Joe Pike. But well done throughout. Well worth your time.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was an Audible book very ably narrated by Luke Daniels and MacLeod Andrews. This is in the Elvis Cole series where Elvis is sent to investigate one thing, which turns into something else entirely different and far more dangerous. LAPD officer, Scott James, and his dog Maggie from another of the novels of Robert Crais, also form another strand to this tale. As always a fast moving story that is very hard to put down.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The advantages are also the disadvantages in this latest novel from Robert Crais. He includes his entire cast of characters working together (eventually) to solve the crime, but although I love each of them, I really prefer to have one of them as the main character of his own book, with one of the others playing a minor role. In "The Promise", all their distinct and quirky personalities seem watered down. I enjoyed the story, but I hope the author returns to featuring one character at a time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, and Jon Stone, along with Scott James from the Los Angeles Police Department, are involved in case with a terrorist plot, a suicide bombing, and a missing woman bent on revenge for the death of her son. As competent as all these characters may be, however, it is Maggie, the K-9 German shepherd partner of Scott James, that steals the story and wins the hearts of readers. In a tale told from multiple points of view, readers will find the well-defined characters, coupled with the fast paced action and the slow unraveling of the convoluted plot will keep them on the edge of their seats until the final page has been turned. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm new to Elvis Cole but I have listened to both novels with Maggie---and I just hope there are more to come---especially now that Cole and Pike are friends---now I need to go back and read more about Cole---very appealing character and both books were terrific in the audio version.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a wonderful book to read. It touched on serious topics such as trauma, loss from terrorism, a murder mystery, and missing persons case but does so with effective laugh out loud humor. I enjoyed reading from the viewpoint of different characters, including a police dog-sounds silly but was very good.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5There are a lot of viewpoints in this novel, from Cole & Pike, the villain of the book Mr. Rollins, and Scott James, introduced in Suspect, as well as his dog Maggie, one wonders how he did the research; maybe interviewing police dogs. This is very enjoyable and features a complex plot in which some people are not who they say they are. My only complaint is that the ending seemed rushed and lacked details.Free review copy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fun read with the entire stable of Crais characters, plus more.