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BOOKS
_I would not consider myself an avid reader. I like to read, but
sometimes it is difficult to find the time. Some years I may read only 1
or 2 books. Other years I may read a dozen or more. My preference is
Fictional Mystery and Suspense with Lee Child as my favorite author. I
also enjoy Historical Fiction, especially set during the Revolutionary
and Civil War. I always purchase Hardcover, but never right after it is
initially published. I search my local Barnes and Noble for reduced
price books. I have found that once an author publishes a new book, the
previous Hardcover is marked down in price at about the same time it is
issued in Paperback. Most of the time the reduced price Hardcover is
cheaper than the Paperback. I also search local used book stores,
Amazon used sellers, and Powell's Bookstore in downtown Portland, OR
whenever I'm in the area. Would I ever purchase an E-Reader?
I think it is highly unlikely since I love the feel of a book in my
hand. I love the smell of the paper. I love to look at the books I've
read on my shelf. Never say never, but I doubt I ever will become a
convert.
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All Time Favorite Books
The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Killer Angels, was the first historical fiction I ever read. It was around 1998 when Michael's son Jeff had written a book picking up where his father had left off. I heard a story on NPR that peaked my interest. I had always been interested in the Civil War, but had not taken the time to learn much about it. This book was originally release in 1974 and is considered to be one the best historical fiction books of all time. It has been compared to The Red Badge of Courage. However, where The Red Badge of Courage focused on the common soldier, The Killer Angels focuses on the generals and the decisions they made during the Battle of Gettysburg. Michael Shaara masterfully brought the time, the place, and the battle into this book where readers can get absorbed into it almost to the point of feeling they had been there. BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
I read this book well before the movie was released in theaters. If I had seen the movie first, I likely would never have given the book the chance it deserves. The book is so much better than any movie could ever portray. The story is about the journey of a Confederate soldier. After being wounded in a battle, and recovering in a field hospital, he decides that war is no longer what he wants to be a part of. He deserts and starts the long journey home. The journey is physical, mental, and ultimately about survival. The writing is so good you feel you are living the journey.
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
Dark Eagle - John Ensor Harr
Dark Eagle is a book I picked up by chance at a discounted book store. I had never heard of the author and had no idea if the book was even worth the discounted price. Dark Eagle is the name given to Benedict Arnold by an Indian on his way to attack Quebec. Yes, the traitor to our country during the Revolutionary War. However, so little did I know of Arnold prior to this book. If it wasn't for his brilliant military mind and actions prior to his treasonous act, we may have lost the Revolutionary War. It made me wonder what choices I would make if I spent all of my money in support of my troops, lost my records in one the battles, and ended up fighting the Continental Congress to prove my expenses. It gave me a whole new perspective on Benedict Arnold as a result of his influence in the outcome of many of the early battles of the Revolutionary War.
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
Saratogo, Turning Point Of America's Revolutionary War - Richard M. Ketchum
Prior to the Battle of Saratoga, England was winning the war. This battle was the decisive turning point in the war. This book is a superb writing of England's attempt to cut off New England from the rest of the colonies and solidify their control of the Hudson River Valley. The Continental Army was ultimately successful in turning the tide by defeating England at Saratoga. The battles take place between Montreal and New York including Lake Champlain, Lake George, and Fort Ticonderoga. Also fascinating about this book is the instrumental role played by Benedict Arnold leading the American's to victory.
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars.
East Of The Mountains - David Guterson
This is one of those books that just stayed with me for months. I had read David Guterson's Snow Falling On Cedars and picked this one up hoping for another good book by the author. The focus is on an elderly Seattle doctor dying of cancer. He is retired and alone, as his wife had already passed away some time prior. This book is about his journey to end his own life at a destination in eastern Washington State. As he travels to his ultimate end, he has a number of encounters that makes him re-examine his past, his present, and ultimately his decision to end his life. This book is a great read about finding oneself during a time in one's life where everything feels hopeless. The apple orchards, mountains, and people of eastern Washington State also make this book a wonderful read.
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 5 out of 5 Stars
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Current Reading List
Currently Reading
Laconic Joe Pickett returns to his slightly offbeat duties in Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains in C. J. Box's Savage Run. Joe is called to the scene when an exploding cow kills a famous ecoterrorist, Stewie Woods, and his bride of three days, who were peacefully spiking trees. A visit to the cow's pugnacious owner leaves Joe defensive, angry, and curious: Why doesn't the rancher ask any questions about the bizarre accident that happened on his land? Then Joe's wife, Marybeth, begins receiving phone calls from her high-school boyfriend—-the peculiarly healthy-sounding Stewie Woods. Stewie may or may not be alive, but his old pal Hayden Powell and other environmental activists are all turning up deceased in strange circumstances. As the body count climbs, Joe tries to sort out the bad guys, the good guys, and the truly dead guys in this sometimes funny, sometimes angry sequel to Box's award-winning first novel, Open Season. Box depicts the spare beauty and cussed individualism of the intermountain West with the sure hand of a seasoned writer.
October 2012
Psychologist Alan Gregory is brought in to evaluate 15-year-old Merritt Strait after her attempted suicide. The teenager has had a complicated life: her stepsister is dying from a heart ailment that might be helped by an experimental treatment, but that treatment isn't covered by the family's HMO. When the head of said evil HMO is shot and killed, the evidence points toward Merritt as the prime suspect. Alan, along with his police friend (and Merritt's uncle), Sam Purdy, begin an investigation that will expose blackmail, extortion and dark family secrets. The usually reliable Dick Hill gives a disappointing performance; his overall delivery is so low-key and measured that he doesn't bring the energy necessary to spark this thriller to life.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
October 2012
On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow waters of Waishkey Bay. With Alex McKnight on the rescue mission, the passengers are brought safely to shore. Alex figures the story’s over…but he’s dead wrong. The boat accident’s happy ending turns into a living hell for Alex when he discovers that the three men he saved are actually connected to a deadly drug-smuggling syndicate that has his girlfriend, Ontario police officer Natalie Reynaud, deep undercover five hundred miles away. Now it’s up to Alex to do damage control on both sides of the border—and protect the woman he loves—before the cycle of violence comes around full circle…
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
October 2012
Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe who won't take bribes or look the other way—is far from popular. When he finds a local hunting outfitter dead, splayed out on the woodpile behind his state-owned home, he takes it personally. There had to be a reason that the outfitter, with whom he's had run-ins before, chose his backyard, his woodpile to die in. Even after the "outfitter murders," as they have been dubbed by the local press after the discovery of the two more bodies, are solved, Joe continues to investigate, uneasy with the easy explanation offered by the local police.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
September 2012
With his family caught in the crosshairs of a group of brutal killers, detective Cork O’Connor must solve the murder of a young girl in the latest installment of William Kent Krueger’s unforgettable New York Times bestselling series. During a houseboat vacation on the remote Lake of the Woods, a violent gale sweeps through unexpectedly, stranding Cork and his daughter, Jenny, on a devastated island where the wind has ushered in a force far darker and more deadly than any storm. Amid the wreckage, Cork and Jenny discover an old trapper’s cabin where they find the body of a teenage girl. She wasn’t killed by the storm, however; she’d been bound and tortured before she died. Whimpering sounds coming from outside the cabin lead them to a tangle of branches toppled by the vicious winds. Underneath the debris, they find a baby boy, hungry and dehydrated, but still very much alive. Powerful forces intent on securing the child pursue them to the isolated Northwest Angle, where it’s impossible to tell who among the residents is in league with the devil. Cork understands that to save his family he must solve the puzzle of this mysterious child whom death follows like a shadow. BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
September 2012
Maggie and Michael Butler are found naked and very dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts. No one ever gets murdered in Kickapoo Falls, and it is up to Deputy Pennington, the trusted number-two man in the Sheriff's Department, to find the killer. Pennington had loved Maggie from afar ever since high school, but he has a hard time holding on to his fantasy when he discovers what the real Maggie was mixed up in. The town's ruling elite close ranks as Pennington zeros in on the truth. He is convinced the answer lies back in the wheat field, and in a missing reel of movie film that will shut the door on the murder investigation but open another into a far-reaching assassination plot set for election night. Steve Thayer saves the best for last, standing the plot on its head with a twist that readers will never see coming-and will never forget. BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
September 2012
Emma Spire is the daughter of the assassinated Surgeon General of the United States. She has been on the cover of every national magazine. Her beauty, her brains, her bravery—all are public property. She is fair game or celebrity sharks the country over. Everyone wants a piece of her—and she must escape the feeding frenzy at all costs. But she cannot, and the consequences are deadly.
Thus the stage is set for Dr. Alan Gregory's most stunning, brainteasing crisis yet. The Colorado-based psychologist-sleuth must solve a case of twisted desire and terror to save not only a golden girl pursued by the furies of fame but also his wife, Boulder County D.A. Lauren Crowder, imprisoned on suspicion of murder. For it was Lauren who took Emma under her wing, and it was Lauren who pulled the trigger on the mysterious stalker who menaced Emma's safety and sanity.
Complicating the case is a six-foot-eight defense attorney with a razor tongue and the extraordinary ex-wife he employs as a private investigator; a take charge man out of Emma's past, whom she trusts perhaps not too wisely; and the biotech genius tycoon, who has used Emma in a way she can not forget or forgive. Step by step, amid accelerating acts of terror, Alan Gregory suspects he may be dealing not with a sick mind fixated on a fantasy of female perfection but with deadly greed fueled by a high-tech prize that may be worth billions. Mean- while, his investigation is turned into a desperate race against time as a medical emergency threatens to turn his wife's incarceration into a death sentence. BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars
Thus the stage is set for Dr. Alan Gregory's most stunning, brainteasing crisis yet. The Colorado-based psychologist-sleuth must solve a case of twisted desire and terror to save not only a golden girl pursued by the furies of fame but also his wife, Boulder County D.A. Lauren Crowder, imprisoned on suspicion of murder. For it was Lauren who took Emma under her wing, and it was Lauren who pulled the trigger on the mysterious stalker who menaced Emma's safety and sanity.
Complicating the case is a six-foot-eight defense attorney with a razor tongue and the extraordinary ex-wife he employs as a private investigator; a take charge man out of Emma's past, whom she trusts perhaps not too wisely; and the biotech genius tycoon, who has used Emma in a way she can not forget or forgive. Step by step, amid accelerating acts of terror, Alan Gregory suspects he may be dealing not with a sick mind fixated on a fantasy of female perfection but with deadly greed fueled by a high-tech prize that may be worth billions. Mean- while, his investigation is turned into a desperate race against time as a medical emergency threatens to turn his wife's incarceration into a death sentence. BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars
August 2012
The McCarrans and the Gallaghers, two military families, have been close for decades, ever since Anthony McCarran—now one of the army's most distinguished generals—became best friends with Jack Gallagher, a fellow West Pointer who was later killed in Vietnam. Now a new generation of soldiers faces combat, and Lt. Brian McCarran, the general's son, has returned from a harrowing tour in Iraq. Traumatized by wartime experiences he will not reveal, Brian depends on his lifelong friendship with Kate Gallagher, Jack's daughter, who is married to Brian's commanding officer in Iraq, Capt. Joe D'Abruzzo. But since coming home, D'Abruzzo also seems changed by the experiences he and Brian shared—he's become secretive and remote. Tragedy strikes when Brian shoots and kills D'Abruzzo on their army post in Virginia. Brian pleads self-defense, claiming that D'Abruzzo, a black-belt martial artist, came to his quarters, accused him of interfering with his marriage, and attacked him. Kate supports Brian and says that her husband had become violent and abusive. But Brian and Kate have secrets of their own, and now Capt. Paul Terry, one of the army's most accomplished young lawyers, will defend Brian in a high-profile court-martial. Terry's co-counsel is Meg McCarran, Brian's sister, a brilliant and beautiful attorney who insists on leaving her practice in San Francisco to help save her brother. Before the case is over, Terry will become deeply entwined with Meg and the McCarrans—and learn that families, like war, can break the sturdiest of souls.
BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars.
July 2012
Below Zero begins with an unassuming phone message: "Tell Sherry April called." But Sherry-Joe Pickett's oldest daughter, Sheridan-and the Pickett family are shaken to the core. April, Pickett's foster daughter, was killed in a horrific murder and arson spree six years prior. To Joe, it doesn't seem even remotely possible that April could have survived the massacre described in Winterkill. He was there. But Sherry starts to believe there's a chance that April is still alive; the girl on the other end of the phone is able to recall family incidents that only April could know. Joe, however, remains suspicious, especially when he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious crimes have occurred. At the same time, an older man and a much younger girl cross the country. The man is on a mission to repent for the crimes he's committed against the environment during his lifetime. He ultimately wants to offset each incident until he not only becomes carbon neutral, but actually drops below zero- as if he's never existed. As the path of these travelers starts to intersect with the Pickett family's, the question is raised: Is this young girl April-or are Joe and his family the victims of the cruelest of hoaxes? BoilerBlog Rating = 3 out of 5 Stars
July 2012
In this novel of "fascinating psychological suspense" (San Francisco Chronicle), Dr. Alan Gregory follows a trail of harrowing secrets, naked violence, and hidden shame into the haunted heart of a friend he thought he knew. And now, what Alan still doesn't know might kill him.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
June 2012
Well, I found a wonderful author on the discounted best sellers shelf at Barnes and Noble. Looks like I'll be reading more, cause this one was a very good read. I devoured it in a week, which is really fast for me given I don't have too much time to read.
It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real-and all too deadly.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
It's Joe Pickett's last week as a temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real-and all too deadly.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
May 2012
Dr. Alan Gregory's fianceé, attorney Lauren Crowder, is thrown into a maelstrom of violence as a case of sexual harassment strikes a devastating chord among the nation's most powerful leaders. But this legal time bomb explodes when crucial evidence disappears-and a killer strikes.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4.5 out of 5 Stars
April 2012
This nearly flawless psychological thriller about a series of accidental deaths surrounding a grand jury investigation is marred by the smugness of White's series hero, analyst/sleuth Alan Gregory.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars
April 2012
Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory faces disgrace and ruin when several of his attractive female clients die untimely deaths. But professional ethics prevent Gregory from revealing the "privileged information" that will clear his name and perhaps save his life-since the killer responsible for these deaths may be one of his patients.
BoilerBlog Rating = 3.5 out of 5 Stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 3.5 out of 5 Stars
March 2012
After the shocking developments in Dry Ice, Colorado psychologist Alan Gregory is struggling to deal with his newly adopted son and repair his shaky, though generally improving, marriage. But then Alan’s ex-wife, Merideth, reappears, seeking help she feels only Alan can give. Suddenly Alan is pulled into a mystery that reaches back years to a camping trip at the Grand Canyon involving Merideth’s fiancé and five friends whose lives were changed forever when a young woman mysteriously vanished from the Canyon floor. Enlisting the help of friend and detective Sam Purdy, Alan finds himself pitted against new demons and unseen enemies as he tries to uncover the connection between the unexplained disappearance at the Grand Canyon and Merideth’s missing surrogate. The clock is ticking, and as Alan’s and Sam’s investigations take them from New York City to Los Angeles to the cavernous reaches of the Canyon itself, Alan unearths a series of secrets and deceptions that someone wishes to keep buried at all costs. BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars.
March 2012
It has been years since the mayhem was unleashed in Privileged Information. Now Michael McClelland, the brilliant, determined killer introduced in White’s first novel, has left the Colorado State Mental Hospital—and he’s coming after Alan Gregory’s family. The timing couldn’t be deadlier; like a cornered animal, Alan is in a deeply vulnerable state, facing severe doubts about his professional life, his marriage, and his own psyche. And McClelland holds the most powerful weapons of all: secrets from Alan’s past. Secrets Alan thought he had successfully buried years ago. Secrets not even his wife knows. Time is running out as Alan scrambles to outwit his nemesis while confronting each of his worst nightmares. His becomes a captivating psychological journey into the events that forever change us, and the relentless drumbeat of the past.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars.
February 2012
_Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife’s
brutal murder. But he’s not going down without spending a bundle of cash
on his defense. So his hotshot attorney hires P.I. Elvis Cole to find
proof that Detective Angela Rossi tampered with the evidence. Rossi
needs a way back to the fast track after falling hard during an internal
investigation five years ago. But Cole needs to know if she’s desperate
enough to falsify the case against Martin in order to secure her own
position. As Cole and his partner Joe Pike work their way through a
tangle of witnesses and an even greater tangle of media, they begin to
suspect that it’s not the police who are behind the setup.
BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 2 out of 5 Stars.
February 2012
_Hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to find the biological
parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years earlier, Los
Angeles private eye Elvis Cole becomes suspicious when other
investigators searching for Jodie's parents are killed.
BoilerBlog Rating = 3 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 3 out of 5 Stars.
February 2012
_Private detective Elvis Cole takes Jennifer Sheridan's case, which
involves her decorated Los Angeles-cop boyfriend in some mysterious
trouble, and Cole and his partner Pike are soon plunged in police
corruption, gangs, and the depiction of themselves as armed killers.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 Stars.
January 2012
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What if America's most powerful leader was also its prime target? On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered as terrorists gain control of the executive mansion, slaughtering dozens of people. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. One man is sent in to take control of the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, determines that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. Moving among the corridors of the White House, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars.
What if America's most powerful leader was also its prime target? On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered as terrorists gain control of the executive mansion, slaughtering dozens of people. The president is evacuated to an underground bunker, but not before nearly one hundred hostages are taken. One man is sent in to take control of the crisis. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, determines that the president is not as safe as Washington's power elite had thought. Moving among the corridors of the White House, Rapp makes a chilling discovery that could rock Washington to its core: someone within his own government wants his rescue attempt to fail.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars.
January 2012
If you are a fan of the Mitch Rapp series, this is where it all begins. This book goes back to when Mich was recruited at Syracuse University by the CIA shortly after the downing of the Lockerbie Airliner over Scotland. Mitch's girlfriend and likely future wife was on the airline and now he is looking for an outlet for his anger. We see Mitch develop through his training at the CIA farm, his first few missions in Beirut, and the formation of the American hero he has become in so many of the later novels. My opinion, Vince Flynn is looking at making his series applicable to the movie industry and needed to tell the early years of Mitch Rapp for this purpose. We'll see if this series is picked up for a movie option like Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Unfortunately Jack Reacher will be played by Tom Cruise, a major disappointment for anyone who is an avid fan of Jack Reacher.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
December 2011
The Last Detective continues with the main characters created by Robert Crais several books ago. Carol Starkley (Detective from Demolition Angel), Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are brought together to search for a missing boy. The boy is the son of Elvis's girlfriend, Lucy. One moment her son Ben is on the balcony of Elvis's house, the next minute he has vanished. The next 300 pages is a frantic search to not only find Ben, but to bring him home alive. The first half of the book is a slow build to a powerful and exiting second half ending. Based on the beginning I was going to only give the book 3 Stars, but after the dramatic and exciting ending I definitely raised this to a 4 Star read.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
December 2011
Demolition Angel centers around Carol Starkley, a Detective with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. She had recently been through a traumatic experience where a bomb she was working to defuse, detonated and killed her partner and lover. She is scarred both physically and mentally. As Carol is trying to work through the demons of her past, another loss in her department sends her into an investigation that brings the past and the present into one exciting conclusion.
BoilerBlog Rating = 3 out of 5 stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 3 out of 5 stars
December 2011
_The first book I read by Robert Crais was "The Two Minute Rule". I was
browsing a half price book store and found it on the discounted best
seller shelf. I knew nothing of about the author. I guess it was the
cover that caught my attention. That was a few years ago and it was a
good find. Like most authors, once I find one I like, I stick with them
until I have exhausted the list. I have since purchased several of Mr.
Crais's books. L.A. Requiem takes place in and around greater Los Angeles and is the eighth book in the series with Elvis Cole. Elvis is a private detective and his girlfriend, Lucy Chenier, recently moves from New Orleans to be closer to him. As Elvis and Lucy are getting used to living in the same city, Joe Pike requests Elvis's help with a murder investigation. Joe is Elvis's long time friend and partner. The daughter of one of Joe's friends has been killed and the father does not trust the police to find the killer. Eventually Joe becomes the police's prime suspect and it is up to Elvis to save his friend from being framed for the murder he did not commit.
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
BoilerBlog Rating = 4 out of 5 stars
November 2011
Worth Dying For is the fithteenth novel featuring Jack Reacher. There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.
November 2011
Gone Tomorrow is the thirteenth novel featuring Jack Reacher. Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.
November 2011
The Enemy is the eighth novel featuring Jack Reacher. Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a chance encounter brings it all back. Now Reacher sees his one last shot. Some would call it vengeance. Some would call it redemption. Reacher would call it…justice.
October 2011
Without Fail is the sixth novel featuring Jack Reacher. A covert group of assassins has the Vice President of the United States in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Jack Reacher.
October 2011
Echo Burning is the fifth novel featuring Jack Reacher. Loner Jack Reacher gets a lift from seductive Carmen Greer, but it comes with a few hitches: a dangerous husband, a small town with secrets, and a plan. Now Reacher's part of it, and before the sun sets, the ride could cost Jack and Carmen their lives.
September 2011
Running Blind is the fourth novel featuring Jack Reacher. Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the man they all knew: Jack Reacher.
September 2011
_Tripwire is the third novel featuring Jack Reacher. Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him. But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expected the reasons to be so personal-and twisted.
August 2011
Die Trying is the second novel featuring Jack Reacher. When a woman is kidnapped, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Now he has to save them both.
August 2011
Killing Floor is the first novel featuring Jack Reacher. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.
July 2011
61 Hours is the fourteenth novel featuring Jack Reacher. A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
April 2011
_FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down
over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese
troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine
and went on to become president. The reality of what happened to the
eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the
war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the
shocking truth. Not even the families of the airmen were informed what
had happened to their sons. It has remained a mystery--until now.
Critics called James Bradley's last book "the best book on battle ever
written." FLYBOYS is even better: more ambitious, more powerful, and
more moving. On the island of Chichi Jima those young men would face the
ultimate test. Their story--a tale of courage and daring, of war and of
death, of men and of hope--will make you proud, and it will break your
heart.
September 2010
_After providing what is arguably the worst single performance in the
history of the NFL, third-string quarterback Rick Dockery becomes a
national laughingstock. Cut by the Cleveland Browns, and shunned by
every other team, Rick insists that his agent find a team that does need him. Against enormous odds, Rick lands a job—as the starting quarterback
for the Mighty Panthers . . . of Parma, Italy. The Parma Panthers
desperately want a former NFL player—any former NFL player—at their
helm. And now they’ve got Rick, who knows nothing about Parma (not even
where it is) and doesn’t speak a word of Italian. To say that Italy—the
land of fine wines, extremely small cars, and football americano—holds a few surprises for Rick Dockery would be something of an understatement.