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Hostage : A Novel by Crais, Robert is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review Robert Crais is the real thing: a writer who keeps topping himself. Last year, after eight popular books featuring private eye Elvis Cole (including L.A. Requiem and Voodoo River ), he produced Demolition Angel , his first standalone suspense novel. Its complex, multidimensional hero was a damaged cop haunted by her past failures. It worked in that book, and it works even better in this one. Jeff Talley, the police chief in a small Southern California town, still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team. Now, three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town. Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage, and Talley's back in his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full-fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over, he has to negotiate for their lives. Crais keeps the point of view moving from Talley to the punks to the hostages as the situation unfolds in the house and on the ground. Then he ratchets up the dramatic tension: there's something i

Who reads Hostage : A Novel?

Author

Crais, Robert

Publisher

Fawcett

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307567697

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thrillers

Rating

4 / 5 (158 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14