After my recent reading of L.A. Requiem, I had a yen to re-read the first Elvis Cole novel, The Monkey's Raincoat. For what it is, it's a very good novel. The Monkey's Raincoat falls squarely into the tradition of the wise-cracking PI with a heart of gold, and Crais pulls it off well. Elvis is interesting enough, and the story moves along fast enough that you don't quite notice how implausible the ending firefight is.
Crais also at least acknowledges the potential PTSD that will come as an aftermath of the events in the novel, even if he doesn't do much with it.
Overall, a very solid book, and I can see again why I stuck with the series.
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