The Sentry

This is an okay book written by Robert Crais. Five years ago, Dru Rayne and her uncle fled from Louisiana to Los Angeles after Hurricane Katrina hit, but now they face a different kind of danger. A neighborhood protection gang savagely beats Dru’s uncle, but Joe Pike witnesses it and offers his own brand of protection. Oddly enough, neither of them seems to want it – and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching their storefront, men who appear quite willing to let the gang have its way. As the level of violence escalates, Joe Pike himself becomes a target. And everything Pike thought he knew about the pair turns out to have been lies.