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<\/a>The Old Man<\/em> looks like a harmless retiree, having lived quietly in the small Vermont village for 19 years now. He\u2019s a familiar sight, walking Dave and Carol, the two dogs he picked up after his wife died. A calm, idyllic life \u2014 until his past appears in a silver Subaru with a pistol on the passenger seat.<\/p>\nWithin hours he has killed an intruder and taken to the road with his \u201cbug out\u201d kits, complete with fake ID\u2019s credit cards, pistols \u2014 and the dogs. Back when The Old Man<\/em> was a young man, he was a special ops who delivered money to American \u201cfriends\u201d in Libya. After he found out how corrupt one of these friends was, he took the money back. When he returned to the U.S., his agency wanted him, not the money. He had been on the lam successfully ever since \u2014 until now. No matter what he offers or to whom, that \u201cfriend\u201d apparently wants him dead. So the chase is on.<\/p>\n No one is better at these chases than Thomas Perry. Sometimes it\u2019s the hero who chases the villain; sometimes it\u2019s the other way round. In this stand-alone novel (Perry does a number of series), he gives us both. In an interesting twist, the hunt for The Old Man<\/em> is engineered by a veteran of the Afghan conflict, a young special op as good as his prey \u2014 and as principled. Will the kid catch the old guy?\u00a0 If he does, what will he do?\u00a0 That tension and the tricks The Old Man<\/em> pulls to hide in plain sight keep the pages\u00a0flipping.<\/p>\n Car crashes, a chase through the snow, a couple of plot twists and a turn-around at the end make this a most satisfying read. Perry shows us you don\u2019t have to teach an old dog \u2014 er, man \u2014 new tricks to make a story work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This new book by one of Bob Moyer’s (many) favorite authors came out late last year, but we’ll forgive him for not getting around to reviewing it until now. Reviewed by Robert P. Moyer THE OLD MAN. By Thomas Perry. Mysterious Press. 337 pages. $26. The Old Man looks like a harmless retiree, having lived […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,426,14],"tags":[967,652,410],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries","category-popular-fiction","category-thriller-suspense","tag-the-old-man","tag-thomas-perry","tag-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}