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    Taken
    Taken
    Taken
    Audiobook (abridged)7 hours

    Taken

    Written by Robert Crais

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    The search for a missing girl leads private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike into the nightmarish world of human trafficking in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Robert Crais.

    When Nita Morales hires Elvis Cole to find her missing daughter, she's sure it's a ruse orchestrated by the girl and her boyfriend. She's wrong. They've been taken by bajadores—border bandits who prey on the innocent by buying, selling, and disposing of victims like commodities.

    Cole and Joe Pike start an undercover investigation to find the couple, but their plan derails when Cole disappears, leaving Pike to burn through the murderous world of human traffickers to find his friend as well as the missing young people. But he may already be too late...

    “Luke Daniels doesn't just narrate Robert Crais's latest novel featuring Elvis Cole and Joe Pike—he transports us to the terrifying world of human trafficking, which Cole must infiltrate in order to find a client's missing daughter.” —Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 24, 2012
    ISBN9781455850006
    Taken
    Author

    Robert Crais

    Robert Crais is the author of the bestselling Cole & Pike novels. A native of Louisiana, Crais moved to Hollywood in the late 70s where he began a successful career in television, writing scripts for such major series as Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice and Hill Street Blues. In the mid 80s, Crais created a series of crime novels based around the characters Cole & Pike. In addition, Crais has also written several bestselling standalone thrillers. Robert Crais lives in LA with his wife and family.

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    • 4/5
      A fast paced, action packed thriller! When Krista Morales goes missing, her mother hires Elvis Cole to find her! And when human traffickers and bajadores get involved, Cole brings in Joe Pike and Jon Stone, and the three of them stop at nothing to get her back! The body count is high in this one and the victims are many! A nice follow up to Crais' last book, "The Sentry"!
    • 5/5
      well written. Kept my interest. learned some things about human traffcing
    • 4/5
      Bad Guys get taken out by the Good Guys. Always a good ride.
    • 5/5
      Thanks for another great story. These books help me though the day.
    • 2/5
      Poorly abridged. No continuity. Difficult to follow the characters and story line.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good thriller, not much of a mystery. I found that the multiple viewpoints added to the suspense but thinned out the character depth. Found the AG Mother mostly a distraction.
    • 4/5
      Great book by Crais. This is number 15 of the Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. This is a later book in the series so it is really good. The earlier books were good but not this good.
    • 5/5
      I really love Robert Crais. One of the few authors I would gladly read several novels a year. Cole and Pike are the best mystery team duo out there right now. Quick read but you will live the ride.
    • 4/5
      Nita Morales hires Elvis to bring her daughter back from Los Vegas where she thinks she is living it up with her boy friend. What they don't know is the young woman & her boy friend have been rounded up by bajadores with a group of illegals being smuggled into the USA from Mexico. The bajadores hijack other smugglers illegals and then ask relatives or employers for ransom or they kill the transient. When they collect the ransom, they still do not release the person but rather ask for another amount. This continues until the payer runs out of money or patience and says no more money. At that point, they kill and bury the illegal. They never free someone they have captured.When Cole & Pike realize who they are dealing with, Cole tries to go under cover but he also ends up captured. In this story, another friend of Pike's named Jon Stone appears and he is real dangerous and crazy
    • 4/5
      A nice fast read.
    • 5/5
      First-rate crime thriller by the master.
    • 3/5
      Not his best book. I read them all dutifully in hardcover, as soon as my mom finishes with them. I always enjoy them and this was no exception, but he may have phoned this one in a little.

      I don't really understand why he chose to tell it out of chronological order, maybe it built suspense better that way?

      I will say that I enjoy having both Pike and Elvis figure prominently in the narrative, with chapters from each of their points of view.
    • 2/5
      Everything was good except the format. It just didn't work. It was distracting and made it hard to read. I finally gave up and read all the kids'part, Elvis' part and then all Pikes.

      The first time ever I have given a 2 to Mr. Crais.
    • 5/5
      Elvis Cole along with Joe Pike and Jon Stone go head to head with kidnappers from the US-Mexico border. Exciting book.
    • 4/5
      Crais takes a different approach with this novel. He has the same characters but changes narrators to move the story. It moves the story well and give each character a view of the plot development.
    • 5/5
      Brutal, probably will be made into a movie.
    • 4/5
      Every time a new Crais book comes out I'm hesitant to read it. Yea Joe and Elvis are interesting and the story was good, but do I really want to read it? Then as soon as I'm into it, I'm quickly wondering why I was hesitant. These book are just exceptional and this one is better then most. In this case Elvis and Joe get involved in a human trafficking case and it's griping. Do yourself a favor and read this one.
    • 4/5
      Pike and Cole together is always a bonus. I stuck with it because of their characters despite the stomach-turning graphic evil -- all too believable -- in the plot.
    • 5/5
      2012 is going to be a good year, if we can go by Taken. It's the first mystery published in 2012 that I have read and it is a winner. Fast paced. You can see far enough ahead that you are held in it's grips. You see in one place that Elvis is 'taken'; what happened? did he want to be 'taken'? If not, how will he get away? How will he save the hostages? This is not a cozy mystery. Elvis and Joe take no prisoners. There are lots of dead bodies and a really bad 'bad guy'. There is also a new character, Jon Stone, who is as good as Joe and Elvis and I hope that he becomes another regular character in this series. Here is hard-boiled detective fiction at its best.
    • 4/5
      I read Taken in one day. The storyline is a bit confusing as the threads that connect the main characters--Elvis Cole, Joe Pike, Jon Stone, and the college age and foreign hostages--bounces back and forth among the days of the hostage taking, days of Cole being held hostage, days before Cole being taken hostage, and Pike and Stone trying to find Cole and the others. Regardless, the narrative and the action keep moving along at a pace that it is impossible to put the book down. I'm anticipating that the author plans to add Jon Stone as a major character in the future--either in his own series or as a major player with Pike and Cole.
    • 4/5
      No foreplay, just slam bam thank you ma'am. This book jumps into the action from the get-go and keeps it up throughout. Another new character - Jon Stone. Elvis and Pike - as tight as it gets.
    • 4/5
      A quick read, keep my interest through out, trying to keep up with who might have kidnapped Mary's baby, the author certainly keep one guessing because he pointed the finger at all the different characters of the book.
    • 2/5
      This is not one of Crais' better books. Joe Pike doesn't seem himself and Crais has added another ex Army hot shot special forces veteran who is totally unnecessary to the plot/ Furthermore the cross border immigrant attrocities, even if true, do not make for a great plot. C-.