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Product Identifiers

PublisherBrilliance Publishing, Inc.

ISBN-101469235544

ISBN-139781469235547

eBay Product ID (ePID)164691797

Product Key Features

Publication Year2013

TopicThrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators

Book TitleFirst Rule

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert Crais

Book SeriesAn Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel Ser.

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 In.

Item Length5.5 In.

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Width6.5 In.

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number13

Number of Volumes4 vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionAbridged edition

SynopsisJoe Pike and his partner Elvis Cole must solve the murder of an old friend and his entire family in this gripping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. When Frank Meyer and his family are executed during a home invasion, the police begin investigating the secret life they're sure Meyer had. Joe Pike's on a hunt of his own: to clear his friend's name, and to punish the people who murdered him. What starts out as a simple trail gets twisted fast by old grudges, double crosses, blood vengeance, and a crime so terrible even Pike and his partner Elvis Cole have no way to measure it., The organized criminal gangs of the former Soviet Union are bound by what they call the thieves' code. The first rule is this: A thief must forsake his mother, father, brothers, and sisters. He must have no family--no wife, no children--because only other criminals are his family. If any of the rules are broken, it is punishable by death. Frank Meyer had the American dream--a wife and family he adored, a successful business--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The only thing out of the ordinary about Meyer was that--before the family and the business and the normal life--a younger Frank Meyer worked as a professional military contractor, a mercenary, with a man named Joe Pike. Frank was one of Pike's guys, and they faced death together in every rotten hellhole around the world. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, because previous home invasions by the crew had targeted only criminals with large stashes of cash or drugs. Pike cannot believe it, and with the help of Cole, he sets out on a hunt of his own: to clear his friend, to punish the people who murdered him. A trail that at first seems relatively simple, however, very quickly becomes complicated, as the two of them find themselves entangled in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminality, and at the heart of it all, an act so terrible even Pike and Cole have no way to measure it.