![]() ![]() ![]() She likes to live and drive fast, and this novel's opening sequence finds the heiress racing through the nighttime streets of Los Angeles with the type of bravura only a carefree adult in a privileged life could possess. Larkin is a hot 22-year-old, suffering from lack of attention from her multibillionaire father, who's more intently focused on strengthening his family's vast empire, which includes hotel chains, airlines and oil fields. This reviewer has run out of superlatives to describe Crais' immense talent, but suffice it to say that The Watchman is a turbo-charged ride that further pushes its author into the stratosphere of crime-fiction immortality. Pike's steadfast morality and single-purpose zeal is once again put to the test, this time protecting Larkin Connor Barkley, a wealthy young California socialite whose life is in danger, following a seemingly innocuous traffic accident. ![]() partner, whose devotion was poignantly made clear in The Forgotten Man (2005), as Pike held the hand of his almost-dead friend in an ICU ward. ![]() The Watchman, by Robert Crais, is technically the first Joe Pike novel, though fans of the author's Elvis Cole private-eye series are well-acquainted with the hard-charging former LAPD officer and worldwide mercenary. ![]()
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