One Good Deed

My first Baldacci book, and I loved it! I was hooked from the start. The first half was a bit slower as we got to know the characters, while the second half was really fast paced leading into a satisfying ending. Highly recommended.

1. I do not understand WHY Baldacci needed to copy Jack Reacher
   2. I find his historical take very limited - the only thing we learn from the late 1940's is that there has been a war and that women are only good for sex and other services
   3. Very comical was his clipped writing style. I listened to an audiobook, but even then - the sentences were very short and packed with action. Like Lee Child's. But rather comically so. I felt like I was listening to bad old movie dialogues- full of clichés and repetitions.
   4. How many times does a reader need to get told that Archer fought in a war?
   5. What, he fought in a war?
   
   The plot was OK. Better than I expected. All in all I won't read the next sequel.

This was a great story. It was great to see how Archer moved from ex-con to wanting to be a detective. I hope there are more books about Archer and that he does go down the detective route for work.

A clever, fun, period based detective story with an interesting protagonist and an endless list of potential antagonists. I couldn't stop listening.