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Straight Shot

Tom Keeler, Book 1

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Straight Shot

By: Jack Lively
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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They thought they could get away with murder, but then Keeler showed up.

Ex-Special Forces operator Tom Keeler is a rambling man. He’s just passing through the town of Alencourt, France, and in less than an hour, someone tries to kill him. Nice place, nice try. But it’s a case of mistaken identity, and they picked the wrong guy. The French police can’t be trusted, except for the beautiful Cecile Nazari. She finds out fast that keeping up with Keeler is a dangerous occupation. Because someone’s preying on the weak and unprotected. Someone murderous. But they never counted on coming up against a guy like Keeler.

©2020 Jack Lively (P)2021 W F Howes Genre Fiction Military Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Fiction France

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I really enjoyed listening to this book. I’ve read all the Reacher books and enjoyed them too. Not surprised at the similarities. I thought Jack Lively wrote well for an old famous baseball pitcher.

Great listening

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Quite a blatant copy of Lee Child’s Reacher character, right down to the French mother and his catchphrases. The fact that the guy who narrated some of the Reacher books narrates it in exactly the same fashion further adds to that. The story itself was OK though and I enjoyed listening to it once my head got used to the character being “Tom Reacher”.

Good, if you assume it’s another Reacher book

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All of it,lt was a very nice
book so thank you for a very good read

Good read

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An enjoyable story with some very exciting events, the details of military, weapons, combat etc and the wandering nature of Keeler are very similar to Reacher. It doesn’t hurt that it is narrated by Jeff Harding. A good listen

A very viable alternative to Reacher

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Compete and unashamed Reacher rip-off. Not quite the same pace or depth as early Reacher and unfortunately similar indiscriminate killings without sufficient justifications, as per recent Reacher novels. It was a pretty good book but it would have been better without the rip off as the premise and story was strong enough without mimicking the Reacher narrative.

Reacher copycat with less pace and depth

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I’m a couple of hours into it. But it’s basically a Jack reacher story, even Tom’s mother is French. I guess there are slight differences, he at least carries a bag in this book.
So, so far it’s an easy listen, like I say, so far very similar to reacher. Even the style. And the story has all the same signs. I’ll maybe do another review once I’ve finished.

Jack Reacher MKII

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good to start with then it becomes a vehicle for gratuitous violence, a promising start that descended into violence for the sake of it. starts very like a Lee Child Reacher story but deteriorated into violence not plot.

lovely character development until it isn't anymore.

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As a Reacher fan I liked the similarities of the Tom Keeler character. The story was fast moving with plenty of action, it was helped immensely by the familiar narration of Jeff Harding. It will interesting to see if the story still grabs me when I get to book 4 with a different narrator?

Good Reacher alternative

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Not quite a Jack Reacher but along the same lines, not bad,has the same misfortune as Reacher,trouble finds him or dose he find trouble ?

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Jeff Harding at his best with a character and story almost indistinguishable from Reacher. (Hurriedly buying extra credits in order to purchase the rest of the series).

Fabulous !

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