By the way, and I hope I don't get pilloried too severely by anyone for going completely off topic, but Joe Pike is the man. I've often thought that if I were ever in a dangerous situation and could pick any character from any book or movie, or real life for that matter, to watch my six, I'd pick Joe Pike in a heartbeat.
I read an interview with Robert Crais in which he said that he'd originally introduced Joe Pike as a minor character, and had intended to kill him off early on, but he turned out to be remarkably difficult to kill!
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