#15 in Elvis Cole/Joe Pike seriesAudio read by Luke Daniels (He's really good. My only wish is that sometimes Joe Pike didn't whisper all the time....)
7 unabridged cds
(7:47)
Brilliance Audio, 2011
However, looks like it was published in 2012
$32.99 TPPL
352 pages
Rating: 4.5 Super storytelling
Setting: some LA, but most of the action takes place in the desert near the Dalton Sea, Indio/ Coachella/Palm Desert/Palm Springs in southern California
Written in an interesting way - the point-of-view switches, as does the time. It might go from Elvis Cole in the current time to Joe Pike six days later to the kidnapped couple in the time between. Keep you on your toes. I didn't think, at first, that I was going to like it but I did. Elvis Cole's sections are always in the first person, all the rest of the characters aren't, just in descriptive mode.
This time, Cole and Pike are assisted by , a government mercenary who'll try anything and follows orders from Joe Pike really well. I see him a tall, cute, blonde, always laughing, nothing bothering him. His hidden military/government credentials seem to be able to get him out of any predicament.....I bet he's going to show up again.
Elvis is hired by Nita Morales, a mom whose college daughter Christa and her boyfriend, Jack Berman, have mysteriously disappeared. She is afraid they've eloped, but this is very far from the truth...they've been kidnapped, in the wrong place at the wrong time when a group of coyotes who were transporting people from all over the world across the border are hijacked by really bad guys called bajadores. These are bandits that steal from bandits. Life has no meaning to them. They're just plain mean and heartless---I hate the thought that there really are people in the world like this!
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