Joe Pike and Elvis Cole are back at it again, thwarting the incompetent police, on their way to save a damsel in distress. As the novel begins, Amy Breslyn hires Elvis to find a colleague who supposedly stole 450,000 dollars and is missing. We later find out she's lying, that she works for the Department of Defense, and has been forced to go outside of the department because she is working a sting on one of her colleagues. In this thriller, Pike and Cole are joined by Delta operator Jon Stone, a clone of Pike, perhaps less forth coming if that is possible. They are on the trail of not only drugs but an operator, a Mr. Rollins, who traffics not only in drugs but explosives. Scott James, from his last book, SUSPECT, is also a main character along with his search dog, Maggie. The trail is long, and all four of the group are needed to finally corral Mr. Rollins, and Maggie is the dog saving hero, able to sniff out the explosives as well as the villain, saving the day. It's a complicated but well plotted novel and the increased time given to Scott, his dog, and his girl friend, another cop, add to the story which depends more on character than plot, at least in my mind. All's well that ends well. It will be interesting to see if Crais includes Scott, Maggie, and Jon Stone in his next novel. I hope he does.
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