The sidekick steps out (San Diego Union-Tribune)
LOS ANGELES – First, you have to know about Joe Pike. Pike lives in Los Angeles. He wears a cutoff sweat shirt, jeans and sunglasses – summer and winter, rain or shine, day or night. Always, his red Jeep Cherokee is spotless and gleaming. He has a red arrow tattooed on the shredded deltoids of each shoulder. He's ex-LAPD and an expert on weaponry large, medium and small.