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 black echo

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Author:
Connelly, Michael, 1956-
Series:
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Description:
A Vietnam veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an FBI agent, hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon.

2. The deserter: a novel

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Author:
DeMille, Nelson
Series:
Scott Brodie & Maggie Taylor novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"A taut, psychologically suspenseful military thriller ... about two army investigators on the hunt in Venezuela for an army deserter who might know too much about a secret Pentagon operation"--

3. Double whammy

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Author:
Hiaasen, Carl
Series:
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Description:
R. J. Decker, star tenant of the local trailer park and neophyte private eye, is fishing for a killer. Thanks to a sportsman's scam that's anything but sportsmanlike, there's a body floating in Coon Bog, Florida--and a lot that's rotten in the murky waters of big-stakes, larg large-mouth bass tournaments.

4. The Monkey's Raincoat

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Author:
Crais, Robert
Series:
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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“Elvis Cole provides more fun for the reader than any L.A. private eye to come along in years.”—Joseph Wambaugh
WINNER OF THE ANTHONY AND MACAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL

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.
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