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Gone Tomorrow: A Review

   Hey, everyone. I just finished a good book and I thought I'd tell you about it. The title is Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child. Here's the recipe from one of the latest tales in the saga of Jack Reacher.
     As you may know, Jack Reacher is an ex-Army Investigator who travels the United States and stays off the grid. He owns the shirt on his back and not much else. He rides buses, hitch-hikes and takes up for the little guy.
     In this installment, Jack is on a subway in New York City. One of the other passengers is acting strangely and bears a striking resemblance to the suicide bomber checklist for symptoms. Reacher approaches her and the lady pulls a gun from her gym bag and blows her own brains out. As you can imagine, Jack gets a trip to the police station for an interview.
    It isn't long before Reacher finds himself working the case, even though he has no authority whatever. But, that's the nicest thing about the ex-Army man, he does what he wants, when he wants and doesn't care if it's legal or not.
    It isn't long before he runs afoul of a U.S. Congressman, the FBI, the DOD and the CIA. He is about as popular as Eric Snowden with authority figures. This merely serves to heighten Jack's bulldog tenacity. He is at his most tenacious when he feels that people are trying to bully him... or indulge in a cover-up.
    It isn't long before Reacher suspects a lovely Afghan woman and her mother of being in a plot against a former war hero, turned politician. Has Jack stumbled into a terrorist plot? Can he save a USC football player from death? Can he cause a NYPD officer and her partner to be falsely imprisoned? Can he have a knife fight that will have you on the edge of your seat? Knowing Reacher, he can do all this and more. But will he? You'll have to spend a few bucks to find out.
     This is one of the better books which I've read, lately, and I certainly recommend it.
   From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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