![]() ![]() ![]() He hesitates – he was looking forward to warm weather – before deciding to stop for a day and poke around. It’s for Laconia, New Hampshire, the town his father came from. In “Past Tense,” Reacher is in Maine, planning his long trek south for the winter, fueled as usual by superhuman amounts of coffee. It’s hard not to laugh near the end of the book when a character asks Pine: “So, how did thing turns out with the nukes and stuff?” It’s about the level of interest the author shows in his own improbable plotline.Ĭompare that to the sleek minimalism of Child’s tale. “Long Road to Mercy” is all over the place, overstuffed, brief when it needs more explanation and expansive when it doesn’t. Soon Pine is running rogue, plucky secretary in tow, unsure whether they can trust even the FBI itself, with Russia and North Korea (both!) on their tails. Almost immediately, Pine returns to a less personal case deep in the canyon, a stolen mule has been found dead, and its rider wasn’t just another tourist. Unfortunately, that’s only a tease from Baldacci, to be pursued in other books. As the book begins, Pine has found sanctuary in the FBI – she’s a tough agent, preferring to work as far from others as possible, her current beat a remote office close to the Grand Canyon – and is taking to the road to visit the death-row prisoner she suspects of having kidnapped her sister. When she was 6, Atlee Pine watched as a man came into her bedroom and took her sister, Mercy. ![]()
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