The first rule

Description:

Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroat criminals.

subjects: Drug traffic,  Private investigators,  Detective and mystery stories,  Home invasion,  Joe Pike (Fictitious character),  Elvis Cole (Fictitious character),  Married people,  Detectives,  Crimes against,  Fiction,  Elvis Cole (Fictional character),  Joe Pike (Fictitious character),  Joe Pike (Fictional character),  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Private investigators, fiction,  Pike, joe (fictitious character), fiction,  Cole, elvis (fictitious character), fiction,  Married people, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction,  Large type books,  nyt:hardcover-fiction=2010-01-31,  New York Times bestseller

Places: California,  Los Angeles,  Westwood