Going undercover to find the two young people and buy them back, Cole himself is taken, and now it is up to Joe Pike to retrace Cole’s steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend. They know things look as bad as possible. Robert Crais is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, sixteen of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner, Joe Pike. There are tire tracks, bullet casings, and bloodstains. They steal drugs, guns, and people – buying and selling victims like commodities and killing the ones they can’t get a price for.Įlvis Cole and Joe Pike find the spot where they were taken. The girl and her boyfriend have been taken by bajadores – bandits who prey on other bandits, border professionals who prey not only on innocent victims but on each other. She knows it’s a fake, that her daughter is off with the guy Nita will only call “that boy,” and that they need money: “Even smart girls do stupid things when they think a boy loves them.”īut Nita is wrong. When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter, she. The search for a missing girl leads private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the nightmarish world of human trafficking in this 1 New York Times bestseller from Robert Crais. When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing adult daughter, she isn’t afraid, even though she’s gotten a phone call asking for ransom. Check out this great listen on Audible.ca.
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