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Just as when Harlen Coben gets away from Myron Bolitar or Lee Child from Jack Reacher who is possibly the toughest tough guy in hard-boiled fiction, Crais has written without including Joe Pike, one of the few fictional bad boys who might give Reacher a challenge. Storm Runners has a complex plot and some intriguing characters, but neither the story nor the personnel grabbed like other Crais works. There was very little connection between me and the developments in the novel. I realize writers have to take a break from the characters who have made them popular and famous or possibly experience burnout, Crais and others can't expect their fans to be as enamored of the new denizens.
That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal destruction and despair seems to have come to an end. The man responsible for the murders—Stromsoe's best friend from childhood and his wife's old lover—is behind bars and Stromsoe has put the past behind him, rescued from the abyss by a former colleague who offers him a job at his private security firm. Stromsoe's first assignment is to protect local television personality Frankie Hatfield from a stalker. But the further Stromsoe is drawn into this case, the more he finds that the net of intrigue is wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. As events conspire against him, Stromsoe learns that prison is no safeguard against revenge.
