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.

No Man's Land (John Puller Series)November 15, 2016 by David Baldacci

John Puller's mom, Jackie, disappeared thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a kid. Paul Rogers has been in A penitentiary for ten years. But twenty years prior to that, he was at Fort Monroe. One evening three decades ago, Puller's and Rogers' LIVES collided with disastrous results, and the truth has been entombed ever since.

Until now.

Military investigators, equipped with a letter from a good friend of Jackie's, arrive in the hospital room of Puller's father--a legendary three-star general now settling into dementia--and show that Puller Sr. has been accused of murdering Jackie.

Assisted by his brother Robert Puller, an Air Force major, and Veronica Knox, who operates for a shadowy U.S. intelligence organization, Puller begins a voyage that will take him into his own past, to find the truth about his mother.

Paul Rogers' time is running out. With the clock ticking, he begins his own journey, one that will take him across the country to the place where all his troubles began: a mysterious building on the grounds of Fort Monroe. There, thirty years ago, the man Rogers had once been vanished too, and was replaced with a monster. And now the monster wants revenge. And the only person standing in his way is John Puller.

Broken Angels by David Homick Exciting / lots of twists / another 5 star book from Homick

Broken Angels Paperback – May 2, 2016

by David Homick

Last year i reviewed Dave's first book A lifetime last night http://www.jrnovels.com/2015/04/a-lifetime-last-night-by-david-homick.html, i genuinely enjoyed it and now it is a five star Amazon book. David Homick is from the same town as i am in central New York. As i pointed out in my review i had never met Dave, but now i have met him numerous times and it really is a pleasure to to talk to him, Dave is a Author committed to excellence and perfection with a great talent for telling stories in a style you can not stop reading till you complete the book.

Dave has dug deeper into his imagination to put out a even better more enjoyable book with many twists that are enjoyable and character development is well defined so you feel as you know each person in the book. This book is deeper than lifetime,it has a great story line that makes it hard to put down.This is another 5 star book you need to read it, would make a great movie.

Deserted by his biological father as a youngster, Jack DiLuca cannot see that his self-destructive conduct and one-night stands are keeping him from discovering the love and the ordinary life that he wants. Driven by persistent dreams about his father, he walks away from his first significant relationship to settle the score with the man who ruined his life. When Jack finds his father in Philadelphia, he finds out that everything is not as it appears. He gets more than he bargained for as family secrets are exposed and he learns that even he is not who he thought he was. A chance meeting with Maggie, an old high school relationship, renews his need, but she resists his efforts to get too close. After establishing a bond with her ten-year-old daughter, Jack longs to be part of a family again. But when disaster strikes, he discovers that Maggie hides a secret that threatens to destroy everything.

              

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.

Calendar Girl series/ it's not fifty shades but it is pretty good /hot steamy and well written romance book

A new erotica collection is heating up USA TODAY’s Best Selling
Books list.
Audrey Carlan’s sexy hot, 12 book
Calendar Girl collection focuses on Mia Saunders, who
begins working for Exquisite Escorts as “exclusive arm candy” $
100,000 for a month of her
company.




Probably we shouldn’t judge her. It’s all for a good reason: To raise a million dollars to pay back
her father’s gambling debt. She has one year to do it.
Each and every book is placed in a different month and a unique city, with a unique “client.”
Oh yea, and this is on Amazon: “Warning: This book is created for people 18+ because of the
language and graphical sexual content.”
Potentially this sort of language – or maybe the $2.99 eBook
price tag – is what’s appealing to
readers.
The initial book, January: Calendar Girl Book 1, will shift up to No. 5 on USA TODAY’s list on
Thursday. January made its first appearance on USA TODAY's list last Thursday, at No. 6.
The best Selling Author of the Hacker Series. pens a 12 book romantic monster with the
Calendar Girl series naughty like fifty shades with a interesting plot and very well written if you
liked fifty shades you probably will love this book also.For a pleasant switch from Murder
Mysteries and such, I made the decision to read this collection. I've just read the initial one January,
and I genuinely enjoyed it. Part of why I selected this series is because I read that they
are brief, and I did complete the book in one evening. It was a very good read! I'm looking
forwards to reading the rest of the series.
I can comprehend the hesitancy in readers wandering into this. I'm undoubtedly very cautious
about moving into the next book. I just don't know how I can take pleasure in a series whose
heroine is going to quest along with different men. Mostly, I'm irritated that I might in fact like the
other men too. I might get as connected to them as I was to Wes, and I don't want that to
happen. Like he says to Mia a few times, I don't want her to forget about him. I want her to
remember, and I'm nervous that she will have messed up the entire thing up with her new
profession. But then again, this is what happens when you read a damn good book. You start to
speculate what avenues it will take, who will come into the pages, who will climb out of them.
And for that reason alone I MUST read the next book. And it might blow my socks off like this
one, or it might self implode into suck. I'm confident with the author though. You're damn good
with words and phrases. Do not stop.

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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