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Indigo Slam (Elvis Cole) Paperback – April 29, 2014

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Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole -- until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes.

Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began that night. What he finds is a sordid tale of high crimes and illicit drugs. As clues to a man's secret life emerge from the shadows, Elvis knows he's not just up against ruthless mobsters and some very angry Feds. He's facing a storm of desperation and conspiracy -- bearing down on three children whose only crime was their survival . . ."
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  1. Book 7 of 20
    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike
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    256 pages
  3. Language
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    April 29, 2014
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.64 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0316376353
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0316376358
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"The ensuing action is suspenseful...spending a few fast-paced hours with Indigo won't give you the blues."―People Magazine

"[Elvis] Cole works his easy charm to the max. But since he's riding Crais's twistiest and best-sustained plot with all the panache of John Travolta, it's a pleasure to see him enjoying his work more than any other P.I. in California history."―Kirkus Reviews

"Crais provides sympathetic and believable kids, a flawed father figure and a bunch of heavies with a softer side-all of whom rocket along until they interlock smoothly at the big finish."―Publishers Weekly

"Suffused with wry humor, lots of action, and some devilishly clever plot twists, Indigo Slam is the most satisfying detective novel I've read in a while."―Miami Herald

"[A] witty and hilarious caper."―St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Indigo Slam hits high gear...Those new to the Elvis Cole series will be converts. Existing fans will welcome Indigo Slam."―BookPage

"[Elvis] Cole is one of those characters who has a smart line for almost every situation, but Crais takes care to let his humanity show through."―San Francisco Chronicle

About the Author

Robert Crais lives in Los Angeles and is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including The First Rule, The Sentry, the #1 bestseller Taken, and Suspect. In 2014 the Mystery Writers of America honored Robert Crais with the Grand Master Award.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hyperion - Acquired Assets; Reprint edition (April 29, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316376353
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316376358
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.64 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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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, following his success with the TV buddy genre, 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.

Here are the Elvis Cole novels in series order:

The Monkey's Raincoat

Stalking the Angel

Lullaby Town

Free Fall

Voodoo River

Sunset Express

Indigo Slam

L. A. Requiem

The Last Detective

The Forgotten Man

The Watchman

Chasing Darkness

Stand-alone novels:

Demolition Angel

Hostage

The Two Minute Rule

The First Rule

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Ken
5.0 out of 5 stars Another good Cole/Pike novel.
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2024
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I'm on my third time through the Elvis Cole novels. Of course, some are better others but they are all good. This one was good enough to read three times over the years. First time in Kindle.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Elvis is in the building and we win again...
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2007
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Mr. Crais knows how to write. If you enjoy detective suspense as a genre, you'll like this book. It has all you could want, a likeable hero, a fascinating sidekick, several emotionally appealing protagonists, some characters that fall into a gray love/hate area, and two different sets of antagonists, each scary-bad in totally different ways.

What starts out as a simple missing person case that should have been a snap, turns into a nightmare of complications, including three children desperate to avoid Child Protection Services, counterfeiting, the Russian mob, and the Federal Witness Protection program. At the same time, our hero's love life, seeming so rosy in the beginning of the story, becomes instead a bad dream, with the ex-husband creating an epic and nasty power struggle for control of his child and former wife. The action is fast, intricate, and the pages keep turning while time slips away.

The lead character, Elvis Cole, and his sidekick, Joe Pike, are extremely appealing characters. They are variously clever, witty, charming, stoic, morally upright, and very good at what they do. This is one of their best outings so far. Thank you, Mr. Crais.
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Al Cato
5.0 out of 5 stars No one better than Elvis and Joe
Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
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Always enjoy them. Good guys with a few quirks that make them interesting. A movie should be made with them. Sam Elliot is Joe for sure. Not sure about Elvis.
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mrliteral
5.0 out of 5 stars You can't go wrong with Elvis
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2003
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For me, the mystery of Indigo Slam is why it was out of print for years. Originally published in 1997, it didn't come out in paperback till 2003 (and the hardcover disappeared), while other later Crais novels (including another Cole book) did the usual hardcover-to-paperback cycle and remained on the shelves. Whatever the reason, it's here now and it's really good.
Elvis Cole, self-proclaimed World's Greatest Detective, is hired by three children to find their father. Motivated more by conscience than money, he helps them. When it turns out that the father is on the run from the Russian mob, Elvis starts getting in over his head. Fortunately, there is his laconic partner Pike to watch his back.
Mystery fans will see a certain similarity between the Cole books and Robert Parker's Spenser. Both feature wise-cracking tough private eyes with mysterious but generally good-hearted partners. Unfortunately, over the years, I found Spenser getting unlikably smug and self-righteous, while Cole remains a pleasure to read about. And both Cole and Pike are much more well-developed than either Spenser or Hawk, neither of whom even reveal their full names (the single-named hero is a bit of a tired gimmick nowadays...Richard Stark's Parker is forgiven because he's been around since the mid-60's).
You don't need to have read other Elvis Cole novels to get into this one; Crais makes it easy to get right into things. For fans of the private-eye novel, you'll find this - like all the other novels by Crais - delightfully entertaining.
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Fred Camfield
4.0 out of 5 stars A man keeps disappearing
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2006
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3 1/2 to four stars - definitely not five. A counterfeiter who acted as a government witness against Russian gangsters in Seattle is put into a witness protection program in Salt Lake City by Federal Marshalls. He disappears, along with his three children. Three years later, his children appear in Elvis Cole's office wanting him to find there father. They had been living under a new name in Los Angeles, and he went out 11 days earlier and has not come back. His oldest daughter, fifteen-year-old Teresa, has a wad of cash. Events move on from there.

The story is generally well written as Elvis looks for the father, encounters bad guys, finds the father, loses him again, and eventually finds him again. Along the way, he discovers other people are looking for the man, including the Russian gangsters and the Federal Marshalls Service. The Secret Service is also interested, and the FBI becomes involved along with the local police. In a side plot, Elvis also has to deal with his girlfriend's ex-husband.

There were, perhaps, too many twists added to the end of the story, and it became a little unreal. Also, the author's description of Seattle settings seemed a little off. Has he ever visited the city? He also keeps referring to Los Angeles hills as mountains. Perhaps he has never seen a real mountain.
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Laurie
5.0 out of 5 stars More Satisfying Than I Could Have Imagined!
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016
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My cousin found Robert Crais while searching for audio books to listen on her long drive to work and said I might like his work. I started at the beginning with The Monkey's Raincoat and have read them all back to back without stop. There's not a single one I can put down. I wanted to move to the next book as soon as I finished one. Indigo Slam is no exception. The characters are rich, well defined, funny, strong, smart, clever, heart-breaking and unrelenting. The plot moves quickly, pushing from one piece of info into more action into info into character reveal with surprises along the way. I love when a book in an established genre can surprise me. Joss Whedon (of Buffy and The Avengers fame) makes sure something happens in every scene of his TV shows/movies to make it over-the-top interesting with either action, character reveal, or other info so you want to see each scene multiple times. That's what Crais does with Elvis Cole (and Joe Pike and Scott James) novels. I can already tell Indigo Slam is going to be a book I read multiple times. I'm already on my second go-round and am finding more enjoyment the second time. Can't recommend it enough. It brings new life to my favorite genre of novels.
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Kyra Haque
5.0 out of 5 stars ANOTHER GREAT ELVIS COLE NOVEL
Reviewed in Canada on December 4, 2023
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Enjoyed this book thoroughly! Great read in the series. Easy to read offline with kindle from any where without wifi.
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ben highley
5.0 out of 5 stars really good story.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2023
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Another cracker from Crais.
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Ed Baines
2.0 out of 5 stars Not one of his best
Reviewed in Spain on May 11, 2021
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Elvis is starting to suffer from his age. A different non pc generation that is no longer amusing. For some reason I still like Joe Pike.
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Anouk Aknin
5.0 out of 5 stars Parfait
Reviewed in France on April 29, 2021
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Ammar Tinwala
5.0 out of 5 stars High on emotions and climax
Reviewed in India on June 23, 2020
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The World's greatest detective has a lot on his plate. He has to deal with both on personal front and professional front. Robert has managed to show this beautifully and there is twist and turn till the end. Another good one.
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