![]() Pleasantly, the Canadians, especially the female, are resourceful, and not sitting ducks for whatever the sinister innkeepers have in store for them. It’s clear that the Reacher-in-Laconia storyline and one with the Canadians stuck at the creepiest lodging since the Bates Motel are eventually going to intersect. But it’s not a Motel 6, and they’re not going to leave the light on for you. Their car breaks down near a motel a few miles outside of Laconia. ![]() In Past Tense, we get a parallel story about a young Canadian couple on their way to New York with a mysterious suitcase. ![]() It was his late father’s place of birth, and where he was raised, until he escaped at age seventeen to join the Marines… But he never went back.”Īt this point, anyone who’s read a Jack Reacher novel (this is #24 in the series) knows that small towns in Lee Child novels are always places where bad, bad things are going on, and Reacher will wind up having to save the day, kicking lots of ass in the process. ![]() He had seen it on all kinds of historic family paperwork, and he had heard it mentioned from time to time. ![]() Like Make Me, Past Tense has Jack Reacher impulsively stopping in a small town, in this case Laconia, New Hampshire. But then I saw Past Tense on the new-books shelf at the library, and decided to give it a whirl. After reading 2015’s truly disturbing Make Me, I kind of swore off Lee Child for a while, as it struck me as more horror than thriller. ![]()
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