If You Like Lee Child

Lee Child writes compulsively readable moral dramas that feature fine writing, complex plots, relentless pacing, and an engaging loner hero. Like the medieval knight errant or the Western hero, Child's Jack Reacher rides into town bringing justice accompanied by the requisite violent gun play before he leaves without a trace. Try these similarly suspenseful and action-filled books.
 

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1. The monkey's raincoat

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Author:
Crais, Robert
Series:
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Book, OverDrive eBook
Description:
Vietnam veteran Elvis Cole, working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, becomes caught up in a web of deceit, drugs, and murder when he is hired to find a missing Hollywood agent who has disappeared along with his young son. "Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. Private Eye.... He quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He's a literate, wisecracking Vietnam vet who is determined to never grow up. When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office,...