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[Deanie]

Your memory is correct, YB....I read the first John Puller just to see for myself. He did remind me a tad of Reacher. I suppose that's why I liked him.

[momckee]

I remember - the thinking was that the 'hero' in each book had a similar sounding name - Reacher - Puller. It was thought that Baldacci was sort of taking the mickey in naming his protagonist in similar style, although that was maybe a bit of a stretch. Why would one author want his work to even appear similar? At least that was what I thought at the time although both men played a similar type role in the books.

[YB]

Good, glad my brain is still working!

I also seem to remember that Lee Child was none too pleased at the time. There was a character in A Wanted Man called Baldacci. Reacher broke his fingers, or was it his elbows? Lee's revenge?

Is stealing another author's character plagiarism (spelling??) or is that when you steal the plot?

[4AMNTN]

OH! too funny YB! I'll have to look up that "revenge".

Not sure which one it is. Although I know Tess Gerritsen has been going through something with her book GRAVITY and the movie GRAVITY.

[Meg]

Mo... I really enjoyed Suspect with the K9 dog, Crais? I've read it more than once.

Loved that book! I have a signed copy when I went to go see Crais in Vero Beach...man he's good looking!
A really good friend is a huge dog lover and that book was how I got her to be a Crais fan.

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Have also recently read:
Just One Look by Harlan Coben
The Story People by Heather Kaufman

currently reading True Colors by Kristin Hannah and also The Insanity of God by Nik Ripken

[4AMNTN]

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Wow me too Meg! I actually used this book as an example in our citizen class last year. Our K-9 officer SUCKED! He treated his dog like a pet, didn't have control or command....he let his 13 y.o. lead the dog around... he was a magnificent dog that didn't have proper training!!!


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[Gismo]

My daughter has started buying me paperback books, for crimbo she got me Ian Rankins - Even Dogs In The Wild.
It's about book 20 of Inspector Rebus a cop in Edinburgh, Scotland

[Meg]

Wow me too Meg! [emoji61]��*♀️[emoji191] I actually used this book as an example in our citizen class last year. Our K-9 officer SUCKED! He treated his dog like a pet, didn't have control or command....he let his 13 y.o. lead the dog around... he was a magnificent dog that didn't have proper training!!!


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Some of the dog's behavior is based on the handler...one here is kinda high-strung and that's because of the handler. He interrupts himself in the middle of a sentence to start another sentence!! And some breeds are more high-strung which isn't helpful.

[YB]

My daughter has started buying me paperback books, for crimbo she got me Ian Rankins - Even Dogs In The Wild.
It's about book 20 of Inspector Rebus a cop in Edinburgh, Scotland

I have read a few Rebus books. I found them OK but not so much that I wanted to seek out the whole series. Rebus has also been on UK television, I liked them on there.

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I recently finished The Silence Between Breaths by Cath Staincliffe. It was good, different. This was standalone, I have read this author before but these have been either the Blue Murder or Scott & Bailey series. Both those have been on UK Television, not sure if they have circulated around the world or not.

I am now on Flora Lively and the Murder at the Maples by Joanne Phillips. New author to me, free on kindle. It's a fairly light hearted read but I'm liking it so far

[Deanie]

I've probably read all of the books in the Rebus series by Ian Rankin. Thoroughly enjoyed them.

Reading Night Life by David Taylor now. It's good. Here's what Amazon.com had to say about it.

"A 2016 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel
*Winner of the 2016 Nero Wolfe Award for Best American Mystery"

"David C. Taylor's Night Life takes us back to New York City in 1954.

The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary US intelligence agency. And the bodies of murdered young men are turning up in the city.

Michael Cassidy has an unusual background for a New York cop. His father, a refugee from Eastern Europe, is a successful Broadway producer. His godfather is Frank Costello, a Mafia boss. Cassidy also has an unusual way of going about the business of being a cop-maybe that's why he threw a fellow officer out a third story window of the Cortland Hotel.

Cassidy is assigned to the case of Alexander Ingram, a Broadway chorus dancer found tortured and dead in his apartment in Hell's Kitchen. Complications grow as other young men are murdered one after the other. And why are the FBI, the CIA, and the Mafia interested in the death of a Broadway gypsy?

Meanwhile, a mysterious, beautiful woman moves into Cassidy's building in Greenwich Village. Is Dylan McCue a lover or an enemy? Cassidy is plagued by nightmares-dreams that sometimes become reality. And he has been dreaming that someone is coming to kill him."

[4AMNTN]

Ok looking for a character that is similar to Reacher Puller Davenport Trent . So I see this Stephen Hunter doing Bob Swagger. Anyone read these? I read up on white feather.... are these good?


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[Style]

Ok looking for a character that is similar to Reacher Puller Davenport Trent . So I see this Stephen Hunter doing Bob Swagger. Anyone read these? I read up on white feather.... are these good?


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4A -- Try the series by Vince Flynn with the character Mitch Rapp if you haven't done so already. Start with the American Assassin. Still my Number One series with a kick-ass protagonist...

[4AMNTN]

Yes, I saw that name along with the above. I thought that was the guy y'all talked about. So I just read little on American Assassin ... found myself grinning

[YB]

Another kick-ass kind of guy is Joe Hunter. Around ten books in this series by Matt Hilton.

[Dan M.]

Ok looking for a character that is similar to Reacher Puller Davenport Trent . So I see this Stephen Hunter doing Bob Swagger. Anyone read these? I read up on white feather.... are these good?

These are excellent stories! Hunter also has a shorter series on Bob Lee's dad, Earl Swagger, that I like even more than the Bob Lee series. Hunter also has at least one story that sort of bridges between both series with a tale of Earl's illegitimate son, Lamar Pye (Bob's Lee's half brother), who is as bad a bad guy as Bob Lee and Earl are good. All in all a great bunch of novels from Stephen Hunter.