Flashback Friday takes us back to a New York City brownstone and a mystery for Nero Wolfe. “Man Alive,” originally published in The American Magazine before later being included along two other shorter mysteries in Three Doors to Death, offers a case involving the murder of a dead man.
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Things finally do go to shit for Reacher‘s (Alan Ritchson) undercover mission, although not as quickly as you might expect. The run-in with Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee) doesn’t immediately blow his cover. Nor does Richard (Johnny Berchtold) blow Reacher’s cover and discovering his kidnapping was staged and Reacher is working with the DEA. However, Quinn’s men investigating those who have been looking into his business lead to attacks on Powell (Owen Roth) and Neagley (Maria Sten) whose connection to Reacher will blow his cover. Neagley fares better than Powell.
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Stone Sunday takes us north to the sleepy town of Paradise, Massachusetts and another case for Police Chief Jesse Stone. There’s a throughline of love and obsession in the second novel of the series that involves both Jesse dealing with his ex-wife relocating to the area and a group of thieves planning a heist run by career criminal Jimmy Macklin who is willing to betray just about everyone other than the woman he loves (and sometimes even her). Jimmy’s crazy plan isn’t help by his need to flirt with the police, putting him on Jesse’s radar sooner than necessary.
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“There are very few people you meet in life that do everything right. The way they think, attack problems, conduct themselves. How they keep things loose when a joke is needed or keep their powder dry when things get tight.”
While playing on recent events, the majority of “Dominique” focuses on an extended flashback which introduces the impressive Sergeant First Class Dominique Kohl (Mariah Robinson) who worked under Reacher before his Special Investigators phase. The pair’s first case involved a soldier (Johnathan Sousa) leaking military secrets under threat from a military intelligence officer targeting his family. That officer’s name was Xavier Quinn (Brian Tee).
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Starting a new five-issue story, having been joined by Gen, Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi come across a huge field of the Shogun’s prized plum trees where they fined a burnt-out section of trees and come across some of the Shogun’s guards who allude to mysterious happenings in the area and are immediately suspicious of the three travelers. The tension between the men and Usagi, whose name they recognize, is notable, although circumstances soon distract them from the trio.
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