The First Rule by Robert Crais

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: Robert Crais
• Title: The First Rule (A Joe Pike Novel)
• Publisher: ‎ G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 308 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0399156135
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0399156137
• Reading age: ‎ 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.30 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Good (minor discoloration on the page edges.) Good condition is defined as a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages and cover are intact and the cover is in very good condition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Synopsis:

From the New York Times-bestselling author who sets the standard for intense, powerful crime- writing comes a blistering thriller featuring Joe Pike and Elvis Cole.

The Watchman put Joe Pike, Elvis Cole's strong, taciturn partner, front and center, and not only won Robert Crais new audiences but remarkable reviews. The South Florida Sun-Sentinel said "Robert Crais elevates crime fiction" and now with The First Rule he does it again.

The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves' code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family-no wife, no children. We are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death.

Frank Meyer had the American dream-until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Meyer was that- before the family and the business and the normal life-a younger Frank Meyer had worked as a professional mercenary, with a man named Joe Pike. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Pike does not. With the help of Cole, he sets out on a hunt of his own-an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminal­ity, and at the heart of it, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it. Sometimes, the past is never dead. It's not even past.

The First Rule is the most astonishing novel yet from the master of the crime thriller.

About the Author:

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. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Quincy, Baretta, and L.A. Law. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues, and one of his standalone novels, Hostage, was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis. His novels have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. A native of Louisiana, he lives in Los Angeles.