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<\/p>\nHere’s a new review by Robert Moyer of Winston-Salem, who’s been traveling and reading. \u00a0Keep watching: In the next few days we’ll have a post by a reviewer who is new to Briar Patch Books.<\/p>\n
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By Robert Moyer<\/p>\n
WORTH DYING FOR. By Lee Childs. Delacorte Press. 384 pages. $28.<\/p>\n
Page 128.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s\u00a0when fans of Lee Childs\u2019 Jack Reacher find out what happened to him.\u00a0 In the last installment\u2019s cataclysmic conclusion, the steadfast ex-soldier was possibly blown up, and definitely blown out of an underground complex, leaving debris and bodies and several federal agencies shaking their heads.\u00a0 Of course, everyone knows he will survive, as this series garners growing sales and critical reception.\u00a0 We just don\u2019t know how <\/em>he did it until page 128, when he tells a doctor about his wounds.<\/p>\n Reacher hasn\u2019t had time to think about what happened.\u00a0 We know he\u2019s in trouble when a sniper sets up across from a barn in the\u00a0middle of\u00a0a Nebraska field, expecting a \u201clarge man in a brown coat\u201d to show up.\u00a0 He will, and so will the barn, at the end of the book.<\/p>\n It seems that Reacher, while trying to hide on the plains, stumbles across a whole county under the thumb of three bent brothers who own a trucking company.\u00a0 Reacher thumbs his nose at them when he breaks the nose of their adopted son.\u00a0 Reacher has a shorter fuse than usual; he just stands the guy up and pops him one for abusing his wife.\u00a0 Reacher takes off, trailed by a herd of beefy ex-Nebraska Cornhusker football players in four-wheel vehicles.\u00a0 The happiness of pursuit lies in Reacher\u2019s unending variety of ways to reduce the herd\u2019s size.\u00a0 Along the way, he picks up on the mystery of a little girl who went missing years ago,\u00a0and he won\u2019t let go.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for everyone but him and the reader, Reacher has interfered with the delivery of contraband the brothers are bringing across the Canadian border.\u00a0 Before long, the herd of beef is joined by three pairs of gangsters from Las Vegas.\u00a0 Needless to say, the violence quotient expands exponentially, as Reacher takes advantage of some fortuitous elements in the plot to render them dead.\u00a0 Very dead.<\/p>\n Reacher takes no credit for coming up with the solution to the contraband or the missing girl; he credits \u201chappenstance and luck.\u201d\u00a0 We know, however, that Childs\u2019 ability to get Reacher into situations we love watching him get out of is neither \u2014 it\u2019s exceptional skill.\u00a0 Like all the other books in this series, Worth Dying For<\/em> is definitely worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a new review by Robert Moyer of Winston-Salem, who’s been traveling and reading. \u00a0Keep watching: In the next few days we’ll have a post by a reviewer who is new to Briar Patch Books. By Robert Moyer WORTH DYING FOR. By Lee Childs. Delacorte Press. 384 pages. $28. Page 128. That\u2019s\u00a0when fans of Lee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries","category-thriller-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindabrinson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}