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Article: Bad Luck and TroubleBOOKS / Fiction
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- International Herald Tribune
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- May 16, 2007
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Janet Maslin
International Herald Tribune
05-16-2007
Bad Luck and TroubleBy Lee Child377 pages. $26. Delacorte Press.Reviewed by Janet Maslin*When Lee Child toured Britain early this spring for the release of his latest monster hit, ''Bad Luck and Trouble,'' certain fans were awarded reproductions of the folding toothbrush featured in the novel. It would take a hard-core fan to appreciate the humor in this. But there are many of those fans, for good reason.Child's daunting Jack Reacher, the Paul Bunyan of the thriller world, is a drifter who's known to travel so lightly that his toothbrush, passport and meager funds are his only baggage. When thugs in ''Bad Luck and Trouble'' trash his ...
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