Stalking the Angel
by Robert Crais
Book 2 in the Elvis Cole series (1988)
Publisher: Bantam
PI Elvis Cole is back in the second new explosive book.
Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.
Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading SHOGUN, but he knew a lot of crooks – and what he didn’t know, his sidekick Joe Pike did.
Together, Cole and Pike begin their search in L.A.’s Little Tokyo, the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the Yakuza – and find themselves caught up in a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession. Just another day’s work for Elvis Cole…