Chain-link fences and barbed wire spine along the top of the walls to keep out people, but the walls keep in the river.

For this work, Crais was awarded the Barry Award for Best Thriller (2008). Now, when it wakes, the river climbs those concrete walls so high that wet claws rake the freeways and bridges as it tries to pull down a passing car or someone caught out in the storm. This is the first of Crais novels to feature the characters Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. The Watchman A Joe Pike Novel By Robert Crais Mass Market Paperback LIST PRICE 9. It found what it looked for too many times. Before we put the river in that silly trough centered on a concrete plain at the bottom of those concrete walls, it flashed to life with the rain to wash away trees and houses and bridges, and cut its banks to breed new channels almost as if it was looking for people to kill.

Crais has written TV scripts for Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, Miami Vice and L.A. The Watchman book by Robert Crais Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Books > Suspense Books ISBN: 8430572619 Animales del mar (Animales Desplegables) (Spanish Edition) Spanish by Robert Crais See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.69 - 12.59 Paperback 5.79 - 6.09 Mass Market Paperback 3.59 - 4. They don't know that we put the river in concrete to save ourselves they don't know that the river is small because it's sleeping, and that every year and sometimes more it wakes. Robert Crais was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among a family of cops (three uncles and two cousins are, or were, police officers) before moving west to LA in the 1970s. People who don't know the truth of it make fun of our river all they see is a tortured trickle that snakes along a concrete gutter like some junkie's vein. Buy a discounted Paperback of The Watchman online from Australias leading online bookstore. “The Los Angeles River is small, but mean. Booktopia has The Watchman, Cole & Pike by Robert Crais.

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