TY - BOOK AU - Crais,Robert TI - The first rule T2 - A Joe Pike novel SN - 9780425238127 (pbk.) PY - 2011///, c2010 CY - New York PB - Berkley Books KW - Pike, Joe (Fictitious character) KW - Fiction KW - Cole, Elvis (Fictitious character) KW - Married people KW - Crimes against KW - Home invasion KW - California KW - Westwood KW - Drug traffic KW - Los Angeles KW - Private investigators KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2010 N2 - Elvis Cole's taciturn partner, Joe Pike, investigates an attack on former associate Frank Meyer, a one-time mercenary whose family has been murdered by a professional hit crew and who police suspect has been keeping a dangerous secret ER -