Guy Walks Into a Bar by Lee Child (2009)
Tuesday’s Mystery Story (flash fiction) July 26, 2022
Take this quickie read for a spin about a sexy girl in a scruffy dive on Bleecker Street at 1:30 am. Moscow-style intrigue with a sassy twist. Author Lee Child at his finest!
SHE was about 19. No older. Maybe younger … She was blond and blue-eyed, but not American … She was probably Russian. She was rich.
Read it here at the New York Times:
Also available at Readsnovelonline.com
http://readsnovelonline.com/Page/Content/353368/page-1-of-Guy-Walks-into-a-Bar-(Jack-Reacher-125)
If you like Tom Cruise and bar fights, this one is cool, featuring military cop Jack Reacher. Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher is being challenged to a fight outside a bar. He tries to warn the group that they can and should still walk away but despite his warnings, they still want to fight. Three minutes of tough and gruff. So fun!
Lee Child, an multi-award winning author, is an English thriller novelist and an Anthony Award winner for the best first novel Killing Floor (1997). His novels are based on the adventures of Jack Reacher, a former American military policeman wandering the United States. He currently lives in New York.
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