Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Matt_WY]

 

[Kevin-B]

 

[JB in LV]

This is a great knife “and I am unanimous in that”.

 

[knife_fan]

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[5K Qs]

A couple of books I read last summer that I haven't posted here yet.
Jack Reacher goes to a small town called Mother's Rest because he's idly curious about the town's name. But everything seems weird there, and it just gets weirder throughout the book.


In the Lucas Davenport novel pictured below, a family (including dogs) is brutally murdered in the Twin Cities area, and it seems that Mexican drug gangs may be involved, but why? Lots of twists and turns in this story.


- GT

 

[JohnDF]

That's a sweet Red Swayback.

 

[screened porch]

This guy explains technical things in more detail than the others. He's a little annoying with his helpful metaphors. (Your heart is like a house and your ions are like people trying to move from room to room.)

 

[knife_fan]

That's a sweet Red Swayback.

Thanks John . I've been wanting to try a Case Swayback for awhile. Once I saw they made it in red synthetic I had to have one.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[willc]

 

[Will Power]

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[5K Qs]

Couple of more books that I read last summer or early this fall before life became too busy for much recreational reading.
Here's a relatively-early Lucas Davenport book in which he's searching for a serial killer, as he often did in early books in the series.


In this Jack Reacher novel, Reacher happens to find a woman's West Point class ring in a Wisconsin (?) pawnshop and decides to try to return it to its owner, if he can figure out who and where the owner is. Before long, he gets mixed up with a prescription drug ring and its distribution network in Wyoming (?). Kind of surprising anti-war undercurrent/sermon pops up here and there in the story.


- GT

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Kevin-B]

Just got it in the mail today, can’t wait to get started on it!

 

[knife_fan]

Started reading the 4th book in Michael Connelly's series of Harry Bosch novels.

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[screened porch]

Arrived at last:

With my adaptation of the Nessmuk triad.
Though I could get closer:

Terribly important choices, to an armchair woods-runner named screened porch.

I have the idea that Kephart said MacGregor influenced Nessmuk, but I can't find it. Certainly MacGregor anticipated Nessmuk.

 

[sf fanatic]

I have read The Polar Express to my children every Christmas. They are grown now but I’m lucky enough to have a 5 year old grandson to share it with.
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