This completes my "Reread Robert Crais" mini-project, which I started back in 2020. I previously read this one in 2019, snapping up the Kindle edition on its release day. Since then, Mr. Crais has adopted a very leisurely schedule: only two newer novels.
For blog readers: my 2019 report on the book is here.
It was interesting to compare this book with one I read just previously, the new one from James Lee Burke. Crais's prose is spare, while Burke's is ornate, maybe? And certainly Crais's heroes, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, are a lot less haunted than Burke's Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel. Still, they all have dedicated their lives to going down Chandler's mean streets. So I'm there, with my finger waiting to punch Amazon's "Pre-order now" button, whenever it may appear.
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