>Hi Mike.
>
>>From today's Chicago Tribune. I didn't know the part about him starting the series in near desperation. You have to respect someone with the courage to do something bold.
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>>http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-ae-0530-lit-life-sidebar2-20100530,0,1150812.column
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>Thanks for the link. I thought he'd been writing a lot longer than that.
>

Yeah, me too. I read a rave review of "Bad Luck and Trouble" and read them all backward and forward from there. If I had any mental image of the writer it was of an ex-military guy who was turning his experiences into fiction.

Random passage from "61 Hours" --

"A half-hour later Peterson got a call to say that the highway had reopened. The weather radar was showing nothing incoming from the west except supercooled air, and all across the state the snowplows and the salt spreaders had finished their work, and the Highway Patrol had conferred with the Department of Transportation, and traffic was flowing again. Then Jay Knox called to say he had been told the replacement bus was about three hours out. So Peterson lit up the phone tree and set up a two o'clock rendezvous for the passengers in the police station lobby. All twenty of them. The ladies with the broken bones were fit to travel. A two o'clock departure would get the group to Mount Rushmore a little less than two days late. Not bad, all in all, for South Dakota in the winter.

"Then he looked at Reacher and asked, 'Are you going with them?'

"Reacher said, 'I paid my money.'

"''So are you going?''

"'I'm a restless man.'

"'Yes or no?'

"'Depends what happens before two o'clock, I guess.'

"What happened before two o'clock was that Janet Salter decided to go out for a walk."

Like all the Reacher books, it's understated yet propulsive.

http://www.amazon.com/Hours-Jack-Reacher-No-ebook/dp/B0036S4CWA/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2