Robert Crais: Taken (UK 2013)

From the Publisher:
Elvis Cole. All round nice guy. Always the first man to help a stranger in distress. This time, however, he's paid the ultimate price for trying to be the good Samaritan. Joe Pike. A fierce protector and a dangerous enemy. This time his tough guy exterior will be tested to the limit as he risks everything to save his closest friend. The clock is ticking now that Elvis has been TAKEN.

Robert Crais: Taken. His closest friend has been taken, now Joe Pike will make them pay... Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409120445 (March, 2013), 419 p., £7.99, eBook £4.99.

Robert Crais: Taken (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
When Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are hired to find her missing girl, the investigation derails into a nightmare. Cole himself disappears and it's left to Pike to burn through the deadly world of human traffickers to find his friend. But he may already be too late.

Robert Crais: Taken. An Elvis Cole Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425250594 (December, 2012), 414 p., $9.99.

Robert Crais: Taken (UK 2012)

From the Publisher:
Joe Pike must take on his toughest challenge yet . He must hunt down and rescue... Elvis Cole.
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike - and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims, but on each other - buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two of them back, he himself is taken, and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers before it is too late.

Robert Crais: Taken. His closest friend has been taken, now Joe Pike will make them pay... Orion Books, ISBN: 9781409116035 (April, 2012), 341 p., £9.99.

Robert Crais: Taken (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers don't yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Cole's steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers... before it is too late.

Robert Crais: Taken. Putnam, ISBN: 9780399158278 (January, 2012), 341 p., $26.95.