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The visitor.
Echo burning.
Without Fail.
Persuader.
The Enemy.
One Shot.
All by Lee Child, all in the Jack Reacher series (two more to go and then I’m all caught up). Somewhere, some time ago, I read a discussion of these, which included a bunch of people talking about how Child deftly sneaked literary references into hard-boiled thrillers. There’s a nice scene discussing Marxist theory in one of these, but apart from that either I’m missing something or I've misremembered the discussion. However, these are still good well-written thrillers, which avoid many of the obvious traps of this particular genre (idiot plots, cardboard characters, incoherent fight scenes, appalling female characters… I can go on, having been scarred previously).
( More things they do well. )
Echo burning.
Without Fail.
Persuader.
The Enemy.
One Shot.
All by Lee Child, all in the Jack Reacher series (two more to go and then I’m all caught up). Somewhere, some time ago, I read a discussion of these, which included a bunch of people talking about how Child deftly sneaked literary references into hard-boiled thrillers. There’s a nice scene discussing Marxist theory in one of these, but apart from that either I’m missing something or I've misremembered the discussion. However, these are still good well-written thrillers, which avoid many of the obvious traps of this particular genre (idiot plots, cardboard characters, incoherent fight scenes, appalling female characters… I can go on, having been scarred previously).
( More things they do well. )
