![]() ![]() ![]() One of the punks isn't exactly what he seems. What makes Hostage so enjoyable is the way he builds on the basic premise. Three punks on the run after a botched convenience-store robbery hole up in a house in an affluent neighbourhood and take the family - father, teenage girl and young boy - hostage.īut Crais doesn't leave it at that. The film rights for Hostage have already been snapped up by Bruce Willis and MGM - and it's easy to see why: the premise of the novel has been a winner in movies since Bogart and Leslie Howard faced off in The Petrified Forest. Now here he is again with another terrific stand-alone novel, Hostage (Orion £12.99, pp373), introducing yet another new protagonist capable of carrying a series. ![]() It's a level he maintained with Demolition Angel, last year's high-octane, stand-alone novel that introduced a character custom-built for a series of her own. But three years ago, he took his writing to a different level with the Cole mystery LA Requiem. W hat is Robert Crais on? For some years, the former scriptwriter for such shows as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey and Miami Vice has been turning out the Elvis Cole mysteries, an entertaining, consistently well-crafted and popular series. ![]()
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