'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Requiem is the apotheosis of Crais's writing career-a gripping novel that envelops Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets, and mortal passions that threatens to destroy their friendship, and leave one, or both, dead. With a rich cast of characters reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's classic The Long Goodbye, L.A. But Pike's no stranger to the men and women in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division, at least one of whom has been harboring a long-buried desire for revenge. When Pike's former lover is found dead at a reservoir in the Hollywood Hills, the duo is brought in by the woman's father to monitor the police investigation. His only stable relationship is with his partner of twelve years, Elvis Cole, a talented and quick-witted PI with skeletons in his own past. Requiem is Joe Pike, a former cop with a past as dark and foreboding as his demeanor. Someone more powerful, more beautiful, more daring.Īt the core of L.A. The city's lost souls take comfort in its promise-the notion that tomorrow could be the day to start all over again, to transform oneself into someone else.

Inviting, with a promise of infinite hope, it can also be a glittering landscape of debilitating isolation. Los Angeles is a city of perpetual reinvention.

L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais