Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley's back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives.Ĭrais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. Requiem and Voodoo River), he produced Demolition Angel, his first standalone suspense novel. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including L.A. Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself.
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