The Midnight Line: Fast paced, hard hitting 5 star Jack Reacher Novel

The Midnight Line: Fast paced, hard hitting 5 star Jack Reacher Novel

#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes back with a clenching new massive thriller featuring Jack Reacher, one of this century’s most authentic, enticing pop-fiction heroes.




The Midnight Line is not a standard Jack Reacher tale. Alternatively, Reacher, a ex - Army MP major, puts on his Military Police hat and does some significant sleuthing from the opening scene where he finds a West Point class ring in a second hand shop in Rapid City South Dakota to his investigation to find the original owner of the ring in Wyoming. Reacher is a West Point grad himself and knows that few that manages to graduate of the Point would give up their ring unless something bad had happened to them. He decides that maybe he can help the owner of the ring and immediately starts gathering insights to recognize this fellow West Pointer. Of course, as the story develops, a simple lost and found case becomes risky as Reacher creates enemies in the oxycodone and fentanyl drug trafficking business. Reacher must use all his expertise to protect life and limb.

It doesn’t take Reacher very long to get to Wyoming, where he thinks he may find the seller of the West Point ring. I was much fascinated by Lee Child’s ability to paint extraordinary word images of the places Reacher visits in Wyoming. I never thought of Lee Child as a fine writer – I do now. Wyoming came to life for me in the pages of this novel thanks to Lee Child's writing skills. Furthermore, Reacher teams up with a former FBI agent who is also searching for a missing person and the conversation between Reacher, the agent, and other characters in the story is sharp, clear, credible, and often interesting.

The Midnight Line is a police step-by-step, something like a Harry Bosch novel by Michael Connelly. I am speculating some readers are going to be disappointed that there is less violent action in The Midnight Line than in a common Reacher story. For me, I liked this switch of pace and direction and was pleased with the new more cerebral Reacher, a man well educated and careful. Don’t get me wrong, when mayhem is needed, Reacher is up to the job! When we finally get to the end of the story, Lee Child ties up all the details nicely and leaves us with a feeling of fulfillment that all loose ends are remedied as Reacher heads off for some new experience.

I may be in the minority, but I like this new Reacher and I think that Lee Child has used all his skills as a writer and story teller to his best advantages. However, Reacher fans are going to have to wait; the novel will not be released until November 7, 2017. The Midnight Line looks like a best seller to me and I highly recommend it without reservation to Reacher fans. 4.5 stars.

Up-date: The more I think about it, the better I like this new Reacher novel. My wife is reading it now and she thinks it is fantastic; she is a severe mystery tale buff. Five stars.

The Fix (Amos Decker series)Apr 18, 2017 by David Baldacci memory man 3

The Fix (Amos Decker series)Apr 18, 2017 by David Baldacci Memory Man 3


Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself.





This is a very superior entrance in a great series. I just wish that the series continued to be as good as the first book had been. This series still has possibilities so I am not going to give up on it.

I really suggest that you read at least the first book in this series before you undertake this one---in fact since there are only three books I would say go for reading both earlier books before reading this one. Nevertheless, you don’t HAVE to read the earlier books to get into this one – it will just make it easier on you to understand Amos Decker’s quirks and exceptional capability.

This book is total thriller with a slight dash of illusion thrown in. A theft of our Countries secrets, spying, hacking, espionage, Russia- Middle East, murder and a story line a little too close to home/the truth for my taste! In the first book, we find how Amos came to have his ‘abilities’ and he goes from a cardboard box living, shell of a man, to this book where he is a productive part of a team that is part of the FBI and making friends. (with the likelihood of a girl-friend I think!)


The book as always grabs you from the first page. A need to, must read. I got this book Friday night & couldn't literately put it down. Just finished. 



Fantastic Characters and lots are twist. I have read all his books. By far one of his best work on this one. Can't wait for his next one. One of the best writers I have had the pleasure and luck to come across. Keep up the awesome work you do. A must, must read.

The Latest Thriller From John Grisham THE WHISTLER

 Tainted Judge. The Mafia. Indian Casinos. The Most recent Thriller From John Grisham.




There’s practically nothing boneheaded or unsophisticated about the judicial bribery scam at the center of Grisham’s fascinating new book. Set in the Florida panhandle, “The Whistler” focuses on an complex conspiracy including an Indian reservation, an organized crime syndicate and a crooked judge skimming a small fortune from the tribal casino’s monthly take.

Grisham’s heroine is Lacy Stoltz, an detective for Florida’s judicial conduct board whose most fascinating case, after nine years on the job, has been ousting a crooked judge who preyed on women with divorces on his docket. But Stoltz’s career receives a jolt when a dishonest mole, looking to accumulate millions as a whistle-blower, tips her off to the conspiracy theory.

Grisham has been belittled for not writing powerful female characters, but Stoltz is finely sketched: “The truth was that, at the age of 36, Lacy was content to live alone, to sleep in the middle of her bed, to clean up only after herself, to make and spend her own money, to come and go as she pleased, to follow her career without worrying about his, to plan her evenings with input from no one else, to cook or not to cook, and to have sole ownership of the remote control.”

The judge is also a woman — Claudia McDover, a previous small-town lawyer with a liking for Chanel handbags, Picasso lithographs and private planes. Suspiciously, these expensive tastes emerged only after she’d overseen the land-use litigation that eased the development of the tribal casino. She also presided over the murder trial of a Native American opposed to gambling on the reservation. Now on death row, he insists he was framed.

Grisham followers searching for courtroom dilemma might be disappointed by “The Whistler,” since McDover’s debatable cases are glossed over. The book feels more like the first half of an instance of “Law & Order,” with much of the story targeted on Stoltz and her crime-fighting squad as they snoop around gated residential areas and golf courses, chasing a basket of Florida deplorables who would make Carl Hiaasen extremely pleased.

As ever, Grisham sprinkles “The Whistler” with sharp findings about lawyers. He describes one as a “ham-and-egg street hustler with two billboards to his name, and a practice that yearned for lucrative car wrecks but survived on workers’ comp and midlevel drug cases.” Or this, which rings true: “Lawyers could generally be trusted to keep secrets that include their own clients, but were often terrible gossips when it came to everyone else.”

Turbo Twenty-Three: A Stephanie Plum Novel (Ranger had a big part in this book)

This book was so enjoyable - chuckle out loud fun - that I disliked to see it end! I love this author and I really like this series! If you are looking for something with deep significance, and hidden messages, this is not the book to read. But, if you want a light-weight, fun, and pleasurable read, this is your book! I laughed so hard from the beginning to the very end!




There aren't enough superlatives in the English language to explain how much I Iove Stephanie Plum novels narrated by Lorelie King. Evanovich is the funniest writer alive and Lorelie King is brilliant! She brings every nuance of humor out of the dialogue. Her characters are so vivid and well defined that you forget this is just a book and not real life. I highly recommend it.

Lee Child's new book, Night School

Jack Reacher, still in the Army, becomes involved in an investigation with elite agents from the F.B.I. and C.I.A.

I’ve read all 20 Jack Reacher books, created by Lee Child. I leaped at the opportunity to review copy of his most recent book. You don’t read 20 books by same author unless of course you genuinely like the characters, and “Night School” is no different. Taking place back in the mid-90’s Military Police Major Jack Reacher is reassigned to go back to school – but it isn’t what everyone thinks. It’s really just a cover to investigate a feasible act of treason and terrorism. Reacher teams up with his old friend Sgt. Frances Neagley and a group of new people comprising the FBI, CIA and the national Security Council to find out what is transpiring and how to stop it. The best part of a thriller is finding out what takes place, so I won’t spoil anything, but Jack Reacher does his typical thing and in the end prevails in the usual Reacher fashion. The interaction between Neagley and Reacher, along with the other team members is enjoyable.

That’s the good part, now the part that isn’t quite as good. I like Reacher novels because over the years he has been constant - Jack Reacher is a really interesting character – keeps a clock in his head – always know specifically what time it is. Calculates the physics of a punch before he throws it, etc. In this book, Reacher is a bit more superficial. There is a lot less of Reacher’s thought process in this book and I felt it made the book a bit less fun to read. In fact, I can only give it “4 Stars” because it’s good – very good, in fact… but it lacks a bit of what makes Reacher novels so enjoyable.

Reacher fans will love it. Folks new to the series will enjoy it, as well. I enjoyed it. I just wish Lee Child done a bit more to keep Reacher’s character as exclusive and entertaining as he has done in the past.

The Last Mile (Amos Decker series book 2) another outstanding Amos Decker story from David Baldacci

In David's #1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man, David Baldacci launched the astonishing detective Amos Decker-the man who can't forget anything. Now, Decker comes back in a breathtaking new thriller . . .
THE LAST MILE



Found guilty murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the final hours before his execution for the brutal murder of his mother and father twenty years prior when he's given an unanticipated liberation. Another man has admitted to the crime.
Amos Decker, recently hired bye an FBI special task force, takes an fascination in Mars's situation after finding the eye-catching resemblances to his very own life: Both men were skilled football players with ensuring careers cut short by disaster. The two men's families were brutally slain. And in each case, a different suspect came forward, years after the killing, to admit to the crime. A suspect who may possibly or may not have been revealing the truth.
The confession has the prospective to construct Melvin Mars guilty or not a totally free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now?
But when a fellow member of Decker's team vanishes, it gets to be clear that something much more substantial and more ominous than just one guilty criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his outstanding brainpower to stop an not guilty man from being executed.

Cross Justice by James Patterson best Alex cross book in last 8 years

Cross Justice by James Patterson best Alex cross book in last 8 years.

Alex's cousin Stefan has been arrested of a awful, unimaginable murder, and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie, and Ali to Starksville, North Carolina, for the 1st time in thirty-five years. Back home, he finds out a once happy community, down on its luck, and community citizens don't welcome him with open arms. As Cross steps into his family house, the horrors of his childhood overflow back--and he discovers that they're not actually over. He produces all his skill to discovering the truth about his cousin's situation. But simple fact is difficult to come by in a area where no one feels protected to speak.

With Cross Justice, bestselling author James Patterson comes back with his most prominent personality in a story that is both equally clentching and fast-paced. Followers of the expert storyteller can remain confident in the understanding that this episode of the series is much superior than the insipid Cross My Heart and Hope to Die. It is as compelling as ever before with Cross returning home for the first time after thirty-five years, only to be encountered with a overwhelming task as he finds himself ensnared in a problem of severe fact and insider secrets, and an enemy as dangerous as any other. What persuaded Alex and his family to return home was the forthcoming trial of his cousin, Stefan Tate, a gym teacher arrested of torturing and killing a thirteen-year-old boy named Rashawn Turnbull.

It’s twenty-three years and twenty-three repayments of justice the Alex Cross-way since the first book in the collection, Along Came a Spider, came out in 1992. James Patterson has modified little. His trademark short chapters carry on to enthrall audience, and his publications proceed to sell like crazy. They continue to generate interest, and make for an exciting and fast read. My admiration for him is full to the brim though I was tempted to give up after Cross My Heart, but as a die-hard fan, though I groaned, and grumbled, I can’t get myself to actually act.

Alex Cross series is the only series that James Patterson writes without a co-author, which is a good thing. Cross Justice is the very best Alex Cross thriller that I have read in a very long, long time. With distinct twists and spins, readers are in for a real and captivating treat. The appearance of a family member whom Alex thought was dead was a nice surprise. The Reverend Alicia, Marvin Bell, the police chief and the local judge all played a pivotal role in the story. The toast "May God bless the Crosses" at the end magnificently sums up one of the best Alex Cross novels, and James Patterson followers couldn't have expected for a better ending. I look forwards to several more from him.

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Lost Girls: A rapid paced, clenching thriller novel (Detective Kim Stone crime thriller series Book 3)

Amazingly gripping, powerful, action-packed book and undoubtedly one of my favorites.



Lost Girls is the 3rd book in the D.I Kim Stone collection. Even while I have read the prior two
books I in fact think Lost Girls pretty easily reads as a stand alone novel, however would
definitely suggest reading the first two novels also as they are superb books.
The story line in Lost Girls, as a mother or father, truly did make for an uneasy read in areas but
was amazed and truly consumed by it.
I don’t know if it was due to the fact of the dynamics of the case but Kim appeared a lot more
energetic than usual. I genuinely would not want to get on the inappropriate side of her. She
undoubtedly put more than a couple of individuals in their places, which a couple of people
more than well deserved it and I thoroughly enjoyed reading through those sections.
The desperation of the circumstance of the two lost girls really comes through in the book and
Lost Girls genuinely makes for a fast moving and clenching read which, by the finish I was
virtually holding my breath, wishing that Kim and her team would resolve the situation and find
both girls safe and more essentially alive.
The sections with Charlie and Amy delivered chills all through me. You could sense the genuine
fear and terror that both girls were enduring. This is unquestionably not a read for the weak
hearted but for true crime thriller fans this is undoubtedly a must read.
The writer surely knows how to interlace a tale that performs games with the audience minds
never mind the characters. With twists and turns it is a story that will absolutely get your heart
beating.
Fantastic book in which for me is very much a 5 star collection.

MURDER HOUSE, by James Patterson and David Ellis Patterson's best book in 2 years

No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds. But its beautiful gothic exterior hides a horrific past: it was the scene of a series of depraved killings that have never been solved. Neglected, empty, and rumored to be cursed, it's known as the Murder House, and locals keep their distance. 
MURDER HOUSE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. The concept of suspense in this chiller is a 200 year old, abandon, scary house situated at No. 7 Ocean Drive in the Hamptons. Ex - NYPD undercover detective, Jenna Rose Murphy, is chosen by her uncle, Landon James, the police chief of the small town of Bridgehampton. Jenna has frequently been scared of exactly what she’s not sure—since her landing in this small town. As a very young gal she recalls traveling to the town in the course of several summers with her mother and father. She just lately come to affiliate the monster mansion with its gargoyles and spears on the roof with her dreams and sleepless nights. She feels something disturbing took place at the mansion that included her in some way when she was very young. Jenna’s first task as the town’s detective is to investigate the ferocious murder of a Movie mogul and his lover whose butchered bodies were uncovered in the mansion. Six more savage murders soon follow. The authors’ brilliant writing leaves the reader in the dark as to the killer/killers until the very last chapter. Patterson and Ellis formulated their characters well. The conversation is catchy as Jenna leads us on her voyage through the mystery with its page turning twists and turns. Patterson’s short chapters make for easy reading. Murder House is a excellent novel, the best the author has written in a couple of years. I give the story a 5-star rating.

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The Prettiest One: A Thriller/dark exciting/fast paced book you have to read

When Caitlin Sommers discovers herself alone in a empty parking lot with blood on her clothing
and no memory of the prior few months, it seems like one of the nightmares that have
tormented her for years but it’s all too genuine. Determined to find out the truth about where
she’s been and what has transpired to her but terrified of what she may uncover, Caitlin
embarks on a search for answers. Her voyage takes her from the safe suburban community she
understands to a seedy town she’s never heard of, where a terrible truth from her past lies
hidden, a truth she can’t quite recall yet can’t entirely forget.
After pursuing careers in screenwriting and later the law, bestselling author James Hankins committed himself to writing fiction and has written four popular thrillers—Shady Cross, Brothers and Bones, Jack of Spades, and Drawn—each of which became Amazon #1 bestsellers. Additionally, Brothers and Bones received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was named to its list of Best Books of 2013.
What an extraordinary story this is from page one until the ending.
Just about when I imagined I had a segment of it
figuredout, I admit that I was completly wrong. And, my investagating common sense did not help for the other parts of the book either. An superb plot motivated by some intriguing character types makes this one a serious page turner. And, the progression of the characters is fantastic which includes both the good guys and the nasty ones. The publishing style is clean and flows easily and the detailed portions will make one wince at times. One thing that I really relished was the two strong women characters Caitlin and Detective Charlotte Hunnsaker.

Laughter is interjected all through the book to allow the readers an possibility to get their breath. After I completed reading this book I kept thinking of it for days ,that is a sign of a great thriller. Mr. Hankins has gone deeply into the minds of two generations with simplicity and also explained in detail the manner in which a distressing event impacts a person.

Most highly recommended and for a number of reasons.

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"Make Me" Jack Reacher is at his best again in this action packed thriller

"#Make #Me" #Jack #Reacher is at his best again in this #action #packed #thriller out sept 8th
“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher needs to know. But no one will explain to him. It’s a very small place concealed in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and mindful individuals, and a uneasy lady named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for somebody different: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have commenced small and then transformed dangerous.

Reacher has no specific place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s a thing about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and begins to ask around. He perceives: How awful can this thing be? But before long he’s stepped into a frantic race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up versus thugs and assassins every move of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must encounter the worst nightmare he could visualize.

Walking away would have been less complicated. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me.

He seems to have got off a train in the midsection of wheat country, for no greater motives than he liked the mysterious name of the town, Mother’s Rest, and that he’s got tried and true intuition for sniffing out problems. Lee Child’s Reacher series has struck Book No. 20 with a unquestionable stream of wisecracking entertainment (“Are you going to be a problem?” “I’m already a problem. The issue is, what are you going to do about it?”). Every little thing about it, beginning with Reacher’s nose for bad news, is as powerful as ever before.

Keep that in mind next time somebody tells you that Mr. Child, whose perinal tough-guy thrillers all adhere to the same fundamental rules, is just one more style type repeating himself in a mechanized way.

“Make Me” is a incredibly hot one. So was “Never Go Back” two years ago, but the tepid “Personal” (2014) came between them. Mr. Child does his best work when he endeavors into bold new obstacles, and “Personal” didn’t provide any. “Make Me” provides a massive one, but it takes its sweet time in exposing what, precisely, is underfoot in the vaguely menacing hick town that tempts Reacher.
There are indicators that this a heart forthe agricultural business there is five very massive grain lifts in a place that has very few folks in it. (Reacher guesses the human population must be a thousand. But we hear from only about a dozen people, all of whom wish he’d go away.) And there is one other visitor, a beautiful woman detective named Chang whose partner, Keever, has inexplicably vanished. To the surprise of all the moles in Mother’s Rest, who make phone calls reporting on Reacher’s location whenever they see him, he and Chang move into the nearby motel trying to determine out where Keever has gone.

Not much to operate with, is it? Specifically when Mr. Child has to summarize the basic things about Reacher that he’s said in each one of these books. What does he carry with him? Usually the answer is “Everything I need and nothing I don’t,” which can mean a toothbrush. This time it’s “a few bucks in my pocket, and four points on the compass.” He’s also inquired where he lives. (“Nowhere. In the world. Right here, today.”) And what kind of nothing he does. (“I travel. I see things. I go where I want.”)
This is the book that will take Reacher from the kind of wise cracking  his followers love and the physical violence that he comprehends (he actually hurts himself head-butting this time, another new perspective for the series), into the eerie concrete realities of 2015, not the ones Reacher learned in the last century as part of his military training.

He’s a fast study, but he has been unaware about a large, horrific, intangible part of the planet in which fantasies rule, no thought is forbidden and a great deal of people die. “Make Me” will surprise some of Mr. Child’s readers if they know nothing of the hidden world that Reacher detects. Clarity has always been one of Mr. Child’s strong suits. One of reachers better books read it.




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Stephen King ’s Finders Keepers- Absolutely outstanding,dark, powerful, exciting novel

Released today
A outstanding,dark, powerful, exciting novel about a reader whose fixation with a reclusive
author goes beyond darkness and reality, a book about the electricity of storytelling, featuring
the same trio of improbable and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes.
and begins King’s instantaneously captivating story about a vengeful reader. The master is
John Rothstein, a legendary author who developed a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who
hasn’t released a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is beside himself, not just because
Rothstein has ceased delivering books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold
out for a career in marketing. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of money, yes, but
the genuine prize is a chest of notebooks that contains at least one more Gold novel.
Morris hides the cash and the notebooks, and then he is put away for a different crime. Years
later, a kid named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill
Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must save from the ever more deranged and
vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirtyfive
years.
Not since Misery has King competed with the concept of a reader whose obsession with a
writer gets hazardous. Finders Keepers is magnificent, heartpounding
thriller,very dark, very
suspenseful will make your skin crawl as only King at his best can do,this is one of King's
better books in years read it .
Massacre and also save the life of Pete Saubers from the clutches of a nearderanged
Morris
Bellamy. While the main thread of the story revolves around Pete and Bellamy, it also delves
deep into the plot of Mr. Mercedes and the massacre which took the lives of eight innocent
people, maimed three, seriously injured twelve and caused minor injuries to seventeen others.
Finders Keepers by Stephen King begins in the year 1978 with the murder of a novelist at his
New Hampshire cabin by a diehard
admirer. The cloistered eightyyearold
novelist John
Rothstein found himself awake when the privacy of his cabin was invaded by an obsessed fan
Morris Bellamy and two accomplices. Not content with the cash available, Bellamy wants to
make sure if the rumoured sellout
of his favorite character Jimmy Gold in the next Rothstein
novel is true, and the ensuing melee proved disastrous.
Bellamy’s plans unraveled when he was arrested and sent to prison for thirtyfive
years for
another violent crime, but not before he stashed the loot away. A high school student Pete
Saubers, whose father Thomas Saubers was seriously injured in Mr. Mercedes, and whose
family is struggling to make both ends meet, found the buried treasure and sent the money to
his parents concealing his real identity while keeping the drafts of Rothstein’s novels. All hell
broke loose when Bellamy is released on parole in 2014 and discovered his treasures
missing. It is up to King’s likeable trio of Bill Hodges, Jerome Robinson and Holly Gibney to
keep Pete from harm’s way and protect his family.
Finders Keepers by Stephen King is an ambitious and wellcrafted
hardboiled
thriller which
can be read as a standalone
though it is the middle book of a trilogy. Its masterful pacing and
riveting plotting makes it a heart thumping read, intensely thrilling and absolutely gripping.
Author Stephen King as is his wont, delivers a novel that has stunned me by its shrewdness
and ability to sustain interest.
#This review is from an uncorrected proof advance reading copy.

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