Baldacci is a good story-teller, always. This time, though, his story is compromised in that it's a blatant versioncopy of the Jack Reacher character. That fact haunts the whole book, ruining it for me. Let Reacher be Reacher, and put Puller to rest.

Excellent - grabs your attention on page 1 and doesn't let go until the end. It's no wonder there is a long line of people wanting to read this book. It's certainly worth the wait..

Good read if you like Bond 007 or Bourne Supremacy. I didn't know where he was heading. It's good story line. Pretty pretty good. They end drag out a bit. But still a good read.

Felt like Baldacci was writing under contract.

If you are a fan of Cotton Malone or Jack Reacher, John Puller is your guy. Puller is a CWO in the army CID with a strong sense of right & wrong...usually. When he goes down to Florida to check on an elderly aunt, he finds her at a funeral home not at her house. The cops say it was an accident but Puller's not so sure. What starts as an investigation into a personal matter soon becomes a conspiracy of much larger proportions & it's hard to know who to trust. Puller is a stand up guy, just trying to do his job while caring for a brother in prison & a father, a once legendary general now slowly losing his mind to dementia. Baldacci, like Steve Berry or Lee Child always delivers book full of action, clever plots & smart dialogue. Perfect escapism.

Another wheezing entry in a tired genre in which only tough, no-nonsense giants with extraordinary powers of deduction, perception and combat thrive. If only Baldacci could find a half-decent artist. Then John Puller could join the Justice League of America - Batman wouldn't stand a chance.

I love Baldacci books and this was a good read like all of them. I gave it four stars for the story. However I was uncomfortable with a couple of things. First the hero Puller kept reading too much like Reacher. A smart, thinking, big, army man!!! Then there was the locale. Paradise, even if it was Florida. You expected the police chief to be Jesse Stone!!! It shouldn't have four stars , but it was such a good read.

Good Baldacci read! Interesting that hero John Puller is similar to Dick Puller in "The Day Before Midnight" by Stephen Hunter. Tense plot from cover to cover. Especially fun if you've been to Paradise, Seaside, Destin and Fort Walton! I love this area - the sand is like powdered sugar. We've been vacationing here and in Orange Beach, Alabama for 20 yrs.

A good read with very little filler. Keeps you coming back to a Baldacci book.

Not one of Baldaccis better books. A good story and plot line but fell flat on character development. The second in a series, I'd hoped for better. Not comparable to Lee Childs "Reacher" series.