I got too bored with Elvis Cole to read anymore of those* but good grief I love me some Joe Pike. It’s possible I love Joe Pike more than Jack Reacher^ even because it just seems like while Jack Reacher would be my big brotherly uncle type, Joe Pike would be you know more interesting to me in the sack. Plus I TOTALLY want his tattoos. Totes.

He’s hot, and also the coolest customer out there (never lets himself lose his temper which you do occasionally see from Reacher), the mystery is interesting, there’s some lies/twists/turns but not so many that you want to hang yourself. And at the end, as in the first Joe Pike-centered book, there’s that hint of more humanity than one would guess…

Oh, Joe.

p.s. I read this in bed on my iPhone when I couldn’t sleep. 🙂 Then I couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t stop reading.

*Joe Pike was originally the sidekick in the Elvis Cole series. This is the second Joe Pike-focused book. I don’t remember Elvis appearing in the first book (did he?) but in this one he gets to be Joe’s sidekick instead.

^The Jack Reacher series is by a different author, Lee Child. If you type either of their names into that search box on the right, you’ll get a few hits.)