Catherine Raynes: Exit Strategy and Gone Before Goodbye

Exit Strategy by Lee Child & Andrew Child   Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for.  First - a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing about. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can't deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively, Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing.  Second - a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climes. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help.  Third - wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more...     Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon   Maggie McCabe is on the brink. A highly skilled and renowned army combat surgeon, she has always lived life at the edge.  But now, after a devastating series of personal tragedies, Maggie is thrown a lifeline by a former colleague, an elite surgeon whose anonymous clientele demand the best care money can buy - as well as absolute discretion.  Halfway across the globe, one of the world’s most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance. Desperate, and one of the few surgeons in the world skilled enough to take this job, Maggie enters his realm of unspeakable opulence and fulfils her end of the agreement.  But when the patient suddenly disappears while still under her care, Maggie must become a fugitive herself – or she will be the next one who is . . .  Gone Before Goodbye.    LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.