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Book Review: Tripwire by Lee Child

Jack Reacher is off the grid and living the life of a drifter, digging swimming pools in Key West when a New York PI looking for him turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off. Turns our his former army commanding officer was looking for him but he died before Reacher can get to him. Jodie, his attorney daughter, wants his help with an elderly couple looking for their son, who supposedly died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War.

It’s another good action book, with plenty of brutality and a surprise ending. Reacher as a character is interesting he’s the Sherlock Holmes detective with the muscle to back up the toughest action hero antics.

Book Review: Die Trying by Lee Child

Yikes I forgot to post this yesterday, ah well I’ll just edit the date to make it look like I did. It’s Friday and here’s another Jack Reacher book that I read a long time ago. This time Reacher is walking past a Chicago dry cleaner and catches a stumbling, attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson who is carry to much in addition to her crutch because of a soccer-related knee injury. Together they are kidnapped by a trio of Montana-based extremists.

It’s more Reacher doing what he does best; violent action.

Book Review: The Killing Floor by Lee Child

I am way behind on my book reviews, like 3 years worth. I’ve read them but I haven’t written about them, except for a couple. So I’m going to try and change that and play catch up with all the ones that I can remember.

I’ll start with Lee Child’s The Killing Floor, which I think I read back in 2007. It’s the first of the Jack Reacher series, Reacher is a former U.S. Army Military Police Major who travels the States like a modern day Kwai Chang Caine. (I used almost the exact same phrase to explain the premise almost 1 year ago)

The hook on this book is great, Reacher gets off of a Greyhound bus in Margrave, Georgia because his brother mentioned that a famous blues guitarist died there. He heads into town and is arrested for murder. The story is full of action, and Reacher is an interesting hero, plus you get to learn about currency and counterfeiting.

Recommended.

My Top 10 Favorite Books

Since I listed my top 10 films, I thought I would do the same for novels. This proved to be much harder and this list is very subjective. There were so many favorites that I had a hard time choosing, so I picked the ones that I’ve reread the most. With most of the authors I have read most if not all of their books and tried to pick one. If it was a series, I just listed the 1st one.

In no particular order:
Dune by Frank Herbert
Midnight at the Well of Souls by Jack L. Chalker
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
World of Tiers Volume 1 by Philip Jose Farmer
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Weaveworld by Clive Barker
Tomoe Gozen by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Stand by Stephen King
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Tom Piccirilli is Criminal

Part 3 of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’ Criminal: The Sinners came out last week and it was a good read. In the back of every issue is a guest essay and this one was on Korean Noir by novelist, Tom Piccirilli. It was good stuff and made even more interesting because I got my first Tom Piccirilli novel for Christmas, The Cold Spot.

Criminal: The Sinners

Made men are turning up dead in what appear to be mob-style hits, and since criminals don’t go to the cops for justice, TRACY LAWLESS has been appointed the defacto “sheriff” of the criminal underworld by his boss, Crimelord Sebastian Hyde. But Tracy is the ultimate outsider, and the cons, murderers, and thieves don’t like or trust him any more than the police do.