Review: A Lee Child Type story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2011
This short story is about Thomas Highway. Brian Springer has written another book about him. Highway is a tough ex-navy-seal who is depressed in this tale. He hates life, wants to be alone, and drink himself into oblivion. There is some similarity between Highway and Lee Child's character Jack Reacher, but Highway is not as tall and Reacher is not as depressed. This story starts with Highway sitting in a shoddy bar after drinking eleven Jack Daniels and beers. Two red-neck men and a woman enter the bar and are very noisy.  Highway fights them is the same way as Reacher fights.Highway's friend Dave Willis comes to Highway while he is nursing a giant hangover and offers him an "extraction" job. Willis needs to kidnap a man for a very beautiful defense lawyer to make sure that the man shows up for his trial. The extraction will involve fights with the man's bodyguards. Willis says he needs Highway's help because he has a back problem, and his doctor told him not to exert himself. Highway agrees to help his friend. Readers will find out what happens next, including visits with beautiful girls, and what Willis is really up to.