Gone Tomorrow

Lee Child has steadily accrued one of the keenest groups of admirers for any contemporary thriller writer ƒ?? and the reason is easy to discern. In such gritty and authoritative novels as Tripwire, Killing Floor and Die Trying, Child established his tough itinerant protagonist Jack Reacher as a key modern hero, with a taciturn, hard-boiled appeal that has not palled over many books (though some have queried Jackƒ??s transformation from a man who triumphed — with difficulty ƒ?? over insuperable odds ƒ?? into a nigh-invulnerable super-hero). But the narrative grasp of the author remains absolutely iron-clad, and there are the stunningly drawn American locales that are so notably impressive from an English author.