Frank Meyer had got out of 'the life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away.
Ten years later, a group of armed men break into his Los Angeles home and brutally gun down him and his family. It's a vicious, cold and professional job. The crew leave no trace behind except the bodies.
But they have made one catastrophic, and almost certainly terminal, mistake - Joe Pike. Because Pike is now determined to hunt down and eliminate everyone involved in the attack, one by one. And it doesn't matter that, as he starts to investigate, he discovers that these criminals are bigger and better organised than he ever could have imagined, because they are about to learn the first rule:
Don't make Joe Pike mad...
Robert Crais nació en el estado de Louisiana y creció a orillas del río Mississippi, en una familia humilde en la que varios de sus miembros son agentes de policía. A los quince años compró un ejemplar de segunda mano de La hermana pequeña de Raymond Chandler, que le inspiró su amor por la escritura. Otras influencias declaradas de Crais son Dashiell Hammet, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker y John Steinbeck. Es autor de la reconocida serie de novelas protagonizada por Elvis Cole que ha sido publicada en más de 42 países y de la que han surgido personajes memorables como Joe Pike, protagonista de El centinela. En la actualidad reside en las montañas de Santa Mónica con su esposa, tres gatos y varios miles de libros.
