Jon Stone, a former Delta Force operator who now works as a military contractor plays a prominent role. Cole enlists the help of his partner, Joe Pike, but two characters introduced in earlier books figure more prominently than Pike. For his part, Cole believes the terrorist is responsible for the woman’s disappearance. Almost immediately he comes under suspicion as the police search for a terrorist with possible gang connections. Things are not always as they seem and that will turn out to be the case in this instance, but for most of the book Crais allows us, and Elvis Cole, to hold fast to our mistaken impressions.Hired by a woman claiming to be a friend of the “overripe peach,” Cole sets out to find the woman. Crais arouses my curiosity in the opening paragraph by describing a “small, round, and dumpy” woman wearing a fringed leather jacket in a darkened room who was clearly afraid and reminded the observer of an overripe peach.
Robert Crais knows how to capture my attention from the first page and hold it to the end and “The Promise” illustrates that perfectly.
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