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|author=Steven Savile
|title=Parallel Lines
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Books are full of coincidences, because if they were not, they would be pretty dull. The action takes place during an extraordinary timescale of the characters – the time they were involved in a bank robbery, or their loved one was murdered. People are more likely to read this type of book than one about the time they picked out their new curtains. For the intrigue to happen, links between characters have to be made, but balancing coincidence is tricky. Too little and the characters don't gel, too much and you start to think the book is supernatural. Did Steven Savile get the balance right in ''Parallel Lines''?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297913</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Sarah Hilary
|summary= The 21st Jack Reacher novel takes us back in time. Reacher is still an US Army MP. ''In the morning they gave Reacher a medal, and in the afternoon they sent him back to school.'' The medal was a Legion of Merit. Not his first, probably not his last, just another bauble to recognise what he'd done for his country and a plea for him not to talk about it. The 'it' in this case was some police work, in the Balkans, and a couple of shootings. ''Two weeks of his life. Four rounds expended. No big deal.''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593073908</amazonuk>
}}
