Jack Reacher’s quiet cameo in Sean Doolittle’s Safer
by Oline H. Cogdill
March 22nd, 2009
Sometimes authors’ homages to other mystery authors are a little mystery in themselves.
Take Sean Doolittle’s new novel Safer about married college professors whose move to a small Iowa city turns into a lesson in terror and obsessive neighbors.
Safer is Doolittle’s first hardcover after four quite good paperback originals.
Like his other novels, Doolittle shows the tension and fear that can erupt in a small town. It’s a refreshing change from the myriad novels set in big cities and Doolittle works this to his advantage.
Here’s a link to a review I recently did on Safer.
Doolittle also has a nice little mystery in his mystery that astute readers (that’s all of you) will pick up on.
In Safer, Paul Callaway has to contend with a burglar on the first night in his new home. After the ordeal and the questioning by the police, Paul relaxes with a novel.
Naturally, it’s a thriller.
Although the title and author are not named, Paul gives enough hints about what he is reading: “The main character . . was a guy who drifted from town to town fixing people’s problems. It was a hell of a story and I couldn’t stop turning the pages.”
Sure sounds like one of Lee’s Child’s novels about Jack Reacher to me.
And no, I don’t know which Child novel Doolittle was alluding to in Safer; I just pulled a copy of his latest thriller.
Anyone want to take a guess about the title of the novel that Doolittle’s character is reading?
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I would guess that it would maybe be “The Killing Floor”. Basically he is a drifter in most of his books if I a not mistaking. Why not start at the beginning. It would make sense.
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