Authors: Robert Crais
Demolition Angel (43 page)
“Behind it all stands the city of Los Angeles, populated with the best and worst humanity has to offer and served and protected by a police force that also mirrors the best and worst in human nature.”
—The Denver Post
L.A. REQUIEM
The sun burns hot and the infamous Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires of distant San Gabriel choking the glittering City of Angels. Joe Pike, a private investigator, learns that his ex-girlfriend Karen Garcia has been brutally murdered. Her father calls on Pike and his partner, Elvis Cole, to help keep an eye on the LAPD as they search the city for her killer. But what starts out as routine for Pike and Cole turns into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse and the reputation that everyone in Los Angeles has something to hide becomes a reality as a deadly dark web of conspiracy threatens to destroy Pike and Cole’s twelve-year friendship—if not their lives.
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Copyright © 2000 by Robert Crais
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