Help please

[Old Codger]

have read all of Lee Child's books, recently during a conversation with a man who was looking at the book stands in wal mart he mentioned another author who has a protagonist similar to Jack Reacher who is a Dr. I cannot remember the authors name, does anyone here have any ideas on this>> I read a lot 2 3 books a week and need more authors... any help is greatly appreciated thank you

[gateley]

1. I can't help you, but am K&Ring because I'd like to find out, too. nt

[Old Codger]

2. Alright...

I Thank you .... about all I can remember was that it sounded like back or bax or somesuch the way he was describing to me it was a Dr. who was a lot like Jack Reacher in Child's books..

[gateley]

3. Isn't Reacher the one who essentially has nothing, just travels around doing

"Jack Reacher good guy" type stuff, mysterious... am I thinking of the right character?

I read so many books, I have difficulty keeping them apart in my mind. I've re-read so many books by mistake, forgetting I'd read them previously.

[Old Codger]

4. Welcome to the club LOL

You got it, a retired MP officer, all around tough guy with no real money and no roots anywhere who knows nothing but the army and travels all over just going nowhere and everywhere.

I do the same thing all the time, end up buying a book and ten or so pages in realize I have already read it... Part of the problem is I may have read the intro to it in a previous book where the first ten pages or so of an upcoming book by the same author are at the end of the book.. I go through 2 to 4 books a week so it is really hard to remember what I have read a few years later...some of them I do not mind re-reading , I do that quite often also when I cannot find anything new to read for a while .

[gateley]

5. There was a Lawrence Sanders book that I read 3 or 4 times, and it was only

when I got to a part about three fourths of the way through where the characters were hiding out from the cops, and sitting on the porch of an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere when it would dawn on me -- man, it's this book again!

Yeah, the ten page teaser always confuses me. And so many of the plots are so similar... I have to check the copyright date.

[Rob Gregory Browne]

6. I think You're Looking for the Repairman Jack books

They're written by a Doctor. His name is F. Paul Wilson:

http://www.repairmanjack.com/

rgb

[Old Codger]

7. Thank you

I will look at these, but the ones I was told about have a Dr as the hero who is supposed to be along the lines of Jack Reacher in the Child's books.

[Rob Gregory Browne]

10. Well, I have a feeling this is the one.

Which is why I mention that Wilson is a doctor. I'm figuring whoever told you may have had it confused. Because the character of Repairman Jack has often been compared to Reacher.

[fadedrose]

8. Too many, just too many...

James D. Doss, William Bernhardt, C. J. Box, Joseph Heywood, Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, Carl Hiaasen, Craig Johnson, Henry Kisor, William Kent Krueger, JON LOOMIS (posts here fairly regularly as smoogatz), Archer Mayer, Patrick F. McManus, Ben Rehder, David Rosenfelt,
and about 20 more..

Good Websites for checking authors and their books - tell which ones are stand-alones or series...

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/index.html

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/

Also, check your library website for authors listed above. If you check "request" they will pull, notify and hold them for you.

These books aren't pulitzer prize winners, but they do take you away from it all for a while anyway.

[Old Codger]

9. Thanks

Checked those sites out, pretty good ones....C.J Box come closest, and Vachs Comes close too, most likely will read both of them, I read Strega several years ago. I never have enough authors , always looking for new ones...