Six Crooked Highways

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Summary: Excellent setting, characters, and action
Review: I found this novel very rewarding to read. Don't be misled by the strangely negative review that precedes this one. Johnson is a solidly good writer who, even though he is writing a mystery/action novel, takes the time to supply his reader with an incredible sense of place and with characters who are achingly human and believable. Not every book gives you these things. What you get is a novel every bit as powerful as Jognson's earlier Don't Think Twice, which has a very high online review rating. This book is a sequel to Don't Think Twice, and it has all that earlier book's strengths, plus an even more skillful handling of the action sequences.

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Summary: A story that stays with you
Review: I read this very, very good book a year ago and came back to Amazon to get the next one from this author. Thought I'd write a review here because I still think about this book and the previous one in this series. I find myself wondering how these characters are doing now, that's how real they became to me. The themes of justice and injustice are handled in a way that's relevant to what's going on in the world right now.

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Summary: OK Story but Overall Very Disappointing
Review: Wayne Johnson's writing style is extremely difficult to follow and understand. His sentences sometimes go on for five lines or more. Some of these sentences contain ten or more different ideas and address many different subjects. Although the plot was interesting the style ruined the book for me. The other annoying trait has to do with the clothing worn by the wife of the main character. It seemed that every time Gwen was part of the story the author felt compelled to tell the reader what she was wearing. This just made the book thirty paragraphs longer. Who cares what she was wearing?