The Sentry continues to be intriguing

10 April 2012

The Sentry




Joe Pike and Elvis Cole's latest case begins amid the terror of Hurricane Katrina - but some of the greatest grief is caused by a torturer who thinks he's a werewolf.

Five years on, Pike happens to witness an attack on a sandwich bar run by two refugees from New Orleans and immediately falls for the female half of the pair. However, it soon becomes apparent that she isn't who she says she is and that the werewolf is on her trail - and he's not the only one. The FBI, apparently investigating gangbangers, warns Pike off but then the object of his affections disappears.

Pike is not the first fool for love to appear in crime fiction and certainly won't be the last. Cole, too, is wrestling with his own demons.
Indeed, the Californian sun casts the loneliness of several characters in stark relief as they persist in following their own roads to perdition.

As ever, Crais describes the LA locations with care and the last 100 pages, in which horrid truths are finally revealed, are as exciting as anything he has ever written. Even so, the strong, almost unspoken, bond between Pike and Cole continues to be the most intriguing aspect of the series.

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