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Robert Crais grew up in Louisiana on a steady diet of comic books and novels.  His first national publication was on the letters page of an issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.  After attending the Clarion Writer's Workshop, he sold two short stories.  After the second story sold for a whopping fifty bucks, he figured the first sale wasn't a fluke and he decided to skip a regular career as an engineer and instead moved to Los Angeles to seek his fortune writing television.  He soon started selling scripts and ended up writing for tv shows including Baretta, Miami Vice, L.A. Law, Cagney & Lacey and many others.

Television paid well, but didn't fulfill him, so he turned to writing novels.  His most popular books are about Elvis Cole, a wise-cracking private investigator in Los Angeles.  The books took a more serious turn with L.A. Requiem when Crais really ramped up the characters, plotting, writing, style and gave the series much more depth and resonance.  L.A. Requiem remains one of our favorite novels here at the database.

Hollywood has tried to purchase the film rights to the Cole series, but Crais will never sell them, so you don't have to worry about seeing Keanu Reeves as Elvis Cole and Carrot Top as Joe Pike.  It's not going to happen, sports fans.