But Child writes with more than his knuckles. Like great movie westerns Shane and High Noon, the tale leaves some unforgettable images. It's a story you can sink your teeth into. Child is a master. Reacher dominates every page of Child's latest, cementing his place as one of the most original and daring heroes in suspense fiction.
Child is a vigorous storyteller, gradually building the suspense to almost unbearable levels.
As sweltering as the El Paso sun, ECHO keeps the action graphic and the tension high. As always in this series, there is plenty of violence, all set within a taut, no-nonsense plot. Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good. The kind of daylight-noir setting that Jim Thompson loved.