pike, joe (fictitious character)

Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina. Now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie.

Elvis Cole is hired by Nita Morales to find her daughter, who she thinks is just hiding out with her boyfriend and is asking for money, but Cole realizes they have been kidnapped by bajadores, bandits who prey on other bandits, and when Cole goes undercover to try and buy her back he goes missing and now it is up to his partner, Joe Pike to find them both.