It’s an unstoppable read.Īn ex-con with delusions of grandeur and his tagalong brother unwittingly team up with a psychopath one wrong word away from meltdown. Hostage proves his earlier success was no fluke. Requiem returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet.Īs the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. The story then revolves around the chief of police trying to deal with the hostage takers inside the house, his own fears about dealing with a hostage situation again and also the machinations of the mobsters, which include the kidnapping of the chief of police?s family.The bestselling author of Demolition Angel and L.A. These mob bosses are soon very worried about their money and other possible incriminating evidence in the house and soon they have their own men on the way to try and resolve the problem. To make matters even more complicated however, the house the criminals are holed up in is filled with millions of dollars for the family inside is that of an accountant who works for several of the most powerful mob bosses in America. Now he is again thrown into a similar situation by these criminals.

The chief used to be a New York SWAT team hostage negotiator who quite as he had got a hostage killed and found it hard to continue such work. The main character is now the chief of police for the small town where all this is taking place. Soon the whole house is surrounded by police and this is where the story really takes off. Heading into a block of houses they go to steal a car by find they are forced to hole up in a house when a cop on patrol is spotted by them, to make matters more complicated the house they choose to hole up in has a small family in residence, and also the cop notices the criminals and there is shoot out in which the cop is hurt. The three criminals run off but soon their car has problems and they are forced to find another. When the guy behind the counter pulls a gun and is killed however. This story starts with a three criminals who have just been released from jail and who have decided to get some cash by robbing a small 7-11.

Hostage by Robert Crais