7)įorecast: Crais sells more with each title, and this will prove no exception.Synopsis: As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is a “crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers.
Thriller vets will have seen a lot of this before, but every virtuoso is allowed variations on a theme, and Crais, with his record and with the smart suspense offered here, has proven himself nothing less. It snaps into overdrive as Benza and his goons snatch Talley's wife and daughter, holding them ransom for the records the flow is marred only by a couple of cheap turns obviously devised for the silver screen. The narrative ticks with suspense as Talley negotiates with the three outlaws, and as they and the kids they're holding respond with panic, fear and courage to the escalating tension. The whopper of a complication is that the dad serves as bookkeeper for Sonny Benza, West Coast mob kingpin, and Benza will do whatever's necessary to retrieve the incriminatory records secreted in the house before the cops storm the place. At their mercy are the family's dad, whom they've knocked unconscious, and his teen daughter and preteen son. Now three outlaws-two lowlife brothers and a homicidal maniac-have, after botching a robbery-homicide, taken refuge in a swank house in Bristo Bay.
The devil clawing Talley's brain is the dying gaze of a young hostage he failed to save in L.A. SWAT hostage negotiator Jeff Talley, now chief of police of smalltown Bristo Bay, Calif.-plunges into an assignment that forces him to confront his demons. The novel launches with a familiar (as familiar as Demolition Angel) premise: a soul-scarred cop-here, former L.A. RequiemĪnd Demolition Angel) can refer not just to the two sets of innocents held at gunpoint in the story but to the reader, who will be wired tight to the book. The title of Crais's fiery third thriller (after L.A.
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