Robert Crais

The Forgotten Man is a 2005 detective novel by Robert Crais. It is the tenth in a series of linked novels centering on the private investigator Elvis Cole. It was nominated for the Shamus Award.

Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they’ll tell you that’s as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two minute rule and it’s a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the rules....When ex-con Max Holman finally gets out of jail, freedom doesn’t …