DWD's Reviews

Originally published in 2004. Some authors are fastidious about their books being written in the order that events happen to the character. So, the events in book 5 will follow the events in books 3 and 4 and precede the events in books 6 and 7. Lee Child does not feel the need to do that in his Reacher series. While this book is number 8 in the order of publication, it is the first chronologically which makes it a great place to start the series. Reacher is in the Military Police and has just been re-assigned from the invasion of Panama to remove General Manuel Noriega in December of 1989 to Fort Bird in North Carolina. It is New Year's Eve and just at the stroke of midnight Reacher gets a call. A General is dead in a seedy hotel off base. It turns out he died from heart attack while he was just starting an intimate moment with a mystery partner. Reacher is not too worried about things until he notes that the General's briefcase is missing. So, Reacher starts digg...

An intriguing mix of the old to make something new Published in March of 2016 The best cooks can take a couple of tired old recipes and do something special to mix them together and make something that feels like it is brand new.    Mishell Baker has taken bits of several popular movies and thrown them together with a a couple of well-known book genres and created something entirely unique in Borderline . Take a handful of Jack Nicholson's 1974 classic movie  Chinatown , fold it into Will Smith's Men in Black , add to it a pinch of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis   and a giant handful of Stephen R. Donaldson's Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever  and you have an approximation of what this book is like. It is a crazy jumbled mess that comes pretty close to being brilliant. Millie Roper is a former film student who shattered her body when she jumped off a building in an attempted suicide. She suffers from mental illness, has two prosthetic le...