The Promise

In the new suspense masterpiece from the #1 New York Times–bestselling series, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike team up with new heroes Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie.

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed.

Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked for a Defense Department contractor. Meanwhile, LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his patrol dog, Maggie, track a fugitive to a house filled with explosives—and a dead body. As the two cases intertwine, they all find themselves up against shadowy arms dealers and corrupt officials, and the very woman they promised to save may be the cause of their own deaths.

ROBERT CRAIS is the author of nineteen previous novels, fifteen of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his laconic ex-cop partner Joe Pike. They have won many awards, been on many bestseller lists, and now are #1. Before writing his first novel, Crais spent several years writing scripts for such major television series asHill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Quincy,Baretta, and L.A. Law, as well as for many other series and television movies. He received an Emmy nomination for his work on Hill Street Blues. In 2005, one of his standalone novels,Hostage, the first to become a New York Times bestseller, was also made into a movie starring Bruce Willis.

The novels of Robert Crais have been translated into forty-two languages and are bestsellers around the world. In 2006, he was the recipient of the Ross Macdonald Literary Award for raising the standards of literary excellence. A native of Louisiana, he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife, three cats, and many thousands of books.