Taken
An Elvis Cole Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike to determine the truth.
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When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike to determine the truth.
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The search for a missing girl leads private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the nightmarish world of human trafficking in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Robert Crais.When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter, she's sure it's a ruse orchestrated by the girl and her boyfriend. She's wrong. They've been taken by bajadores border bandits who prey on the innocent by buying, selling, and disposing of victims like commodities.
Cole and Joe Pike start an undercover investigation to find the couple, but their plan derails when Cole disappears, leaving Pike to burn through the murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend as well as the missing young people. But he may already be too late...
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Part 1
Elvis Cole
1
2
Joe Pike
3
4
5
Jack and Krista
6
Elvis Cole
7
8
9
10
Joe Pike
11
Elvis Cole
12
13
Jack and Krista
14
15
Elvis Cole
16
17
Jack and Krista
18
19
Jon Stone
20
Part 2
Elvis Cole
21
22
23
24
Jack and Krista
25
26
27
Part 3
28
Elvis Cole
29
Joe Pike
30
31
32
33
Jack and Krista
34
Elvis Cole
35
36
Part 4
Riverside County Jail
37
Joe Pike
38
39
40
41
the date farm
42
43
44
45
46
47
Suspect chapter excerpt
Acknowledgments
Prologue:
JACK AND KRISTA
Jack Berman wrapped his arms around his girlfriend, Krista Morales, and watched his breath fog in the cold desert air. Twenty minutes after midnight, fourteen miles south of Rancho Mirage in the otherwise impenetrable darkness of the Anza-Borrego Desert, Jack and Krista were lit in the harsh purple glare of the lights that blossomed from Danny Trehorn s truck, Jack so much in love with this girl his heart beat with hers.
Trehorn gunned his engine.
You guys comin or what?
Krista snuggled deeper into Jack s arms.
Let s stay a little longer. Just us. Not them. I want to tell you something.
Jack called to his friend.
Mañana, dude. We re
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gonna hang.
We roll early, bro. See you at nine.
See us at noon.
Pussy! We ll wake your ass up!
Trehorn dropped back into his truck, and spun a one-eighty back toward town, Ride of the Valkyries blaring on his sound system. Chuck Lautner and Deli Blake tucked Chuck s ancient Land Cruiser in tight behind Trehorn, their headlamps flashing over Jack s Mustang, which was parked up the old county road where the ground was more even. They had come out to show Krista a drug smuggler s airplane that had crashed in 1972 because Krista wanted to see it.
Jack grew colder as their tail lights receded, and the desert grew darker. A thin crescent moon and cloudy star field gave them enough light to see, but little more.
Jack said, Dark.
She didn t answer.
Jack said, Cold.
He snuggled closer, spooning into her back, both of them staring at nothing. Jack wondered what she was seeing.
Krista had been pensive all night even though she had pushed them to come, and now her wanting to tell him something felt ominous. Jack had the sick feeling she was pregnant or dumping him. Krista was two months from graduating summa cum laude at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, and had taken a job in D.C. Jack had dropped out of USC.
Jack nuzzled into her hair.
Are we okay?
She pushed away far enough to study him, then smiled.
There have never been two people better than us. I am totally in love with you.
You had me worried.
Thanks for getting Danny to bring us out here. I don t think he wanted to come.
It s a long drive if you ve seen it a million times. He stopped coming out here in high school.
According to Trehorn, the twin-engine Cessna 310 had crashed while bringing in a load of coke at night during a sandstorm. A local drug dealer named Greek Cisneros cleared enough cactus and rocks to fashion a landing strip in the middle of the desert twenty miles outside Palm Springs, and used the airplane to bring cocaine and marijuana up fro
We roll early, bro. See you at nine.
See us at noon.
Pussy! We ll wake your ass up!
Trehorn dropped back into his truck, and spun a one-eighty back toward town, Ride of the Valkyries blaring on his sound system. Chuck Lautner and Deli Blake tucked Chuck s ancient Land Cruiser in tight behind Trehorn, their headlamps flashing over Jack s Mustang, which was parked up the old county road where the ground was more even. They had come out to show Krista a drug smuggler s airplane that had crashed in 1972 because Krista wanted to see it.
Jack grew colder as their tail lights receded, and the desert grew darker. A thin crescent moon and cloudy star field gave them enough light to see, but little more.
Jack said, Dark.
She didn t answer.
Jack said, Cold.
He snuggled closer, spooning into her back, both of them staring at nothing. Jack wondered what she was seeing.
Krista had been pensive all night even though she had pushed them to come, and now her wanting to tell him something felt ominous. Jack had the sick feeling she was pregnant or dumping him. Krista was two months from graduating summa cum laude at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, and had taken a job in D.C. Jack had dropped out of USC.
Jack nuzzled into her hair.
Are we okay?
She pushed away far enough to study him, then smiled.
There have never been two people better than us. I am totally in love with you.
You had me worried.
Thanks for getting Danny to bring us out here. I don t think he wanted to come.
It s a long drive if you ve seen it a million times. He stopped coming out here in high school.
According to Trehorn, the twin-engine Cessna 310 had crashed while bringing in a load of coke at night during a sandstorm. A local drug dealer named Greek Cisneros cleared enough cactus and rocks to fashion a landing strip in the middle of the desert twenty miles outside Palm Springs, and used the airplane to bring cocaine and marijuana up fro
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Autoren-Porträt von Robert Crais
Robert Crais is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, many of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Quincy, Baretta, and L.A. Law. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues, and one of his standalone novels, Hostage, was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis. His novels have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Los Angeles.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robert Crais
- 2013, 448 Seiten, Maße: 11 x 19 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0425250598
- ISBN-13: 9780425250594
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.12.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Taken “
"Crais keeps the reader off-balance with...unexpected plot twists and a breathless pace that makes you feel as if you're smack in the middle of an action film." --"Huffington Post " "A thriller in every sense of the word... This is magnificent, bold writing from one of the absolute best." --Bookreporter.com "[Crais's] best-selling Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series gets better with every new book, and..."Taken", is no exception." --OregonLive.com
Pressezitat
Praise for TakenI have no criticisms of Robert Crais's work, other than I wish he could write as fast as I devour his work, which would require him to crank out at the very least a new book every week. Huffington Post
Wonderfully told, a punch-in-the-gut thriller that is not to be missed. The Providence Journal
[Crais s] best-selling Elvis Cole/Joe Pike series gets better with every new book, and...Taken, is no exception. OregonLive.com
[Taken] would make a fine action-packed film. Publishers Weekly
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