Stalking the Angel

Stalking the Angel by Robert Crais. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780752817019.

Bradley Warren had lost something very valuable, something that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure. Everything PI Elvis Cole knew about Japanese culture hed learned from reading Shogun, but he knew a lot of crooks - and what he didnt know, his sociopathic sidekick Joe Pike did. Together their search begins in LAs Little Tokyo and the nest of the notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder and sexual obsession - just another days work for Elvis Cole.