Very true Finian, Relic was very good. In fact, after I posted yesterday I thought about it last night and decided that if I was on a deserted island and I had all the slots filled with my FPW selections and I had two spaces left for a P and C, what would I fill them with? I figured that would be C of C and then Still life with Crows and then for good measure I would strap on Relic as a shoe and the other shoe would be Richard Preston's book(Douglas's brother), the Cobra Event. Man you ought to see the book hat I am building to wear to my fantasy island...lol. Keri

Jeez,Keri are you trying to keep the board up all night. Reading Cobra event kept me up all night and making me watch fox news and wonder if Bill O'Rielly has all the answers. Telling a group of people this size to read Cobra Event is going to make me call my broker and and buy aluminum futures and stock in 3m. Yes this book will have all but the most harden individual scared and wide eyed.-----mark

[SIZE="3"]A crossover won't happen, but it would have inherent dramatic tension in that Pendergast is an agent of the state and Jack is a career criminal. Make for an interesting ethical bind if he has to deal with Jack. Kind makes me want to invent a Pendergast of my own and throw the two together.
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Actually, there is kind of a character or two already. In "The Long Way Home" Jack is cut loose by a couple of NYC cops (I don't remember their names) who realize that Jack saved a fellow officer, is a stand up guy, and deserves a break. We don't know about their backgrounds, or that of the officer Jack saves, but they could be thrown into the middle of one of Jack's fix-its.

Actually, there is kind of a character or two already. In "The Long Way Home" Jack is cut loose by a couple of NYC cops (I don't remember their names) who realize that Jack saved a fellow officer, is a stand up guy, and deserves a break. We don't know about their backgrounds, or that of the officer Jack saves, but they could be thrown into the middle of one of Jack's fix-its.

[SIZE="3"]I've been thinking aout how to integrate "Long Way" into a novel, but it's been downloaded so many times from Amazon...[/SIZE]

[SIZE="3"]I've been thinking aout how to integrate "Long Way" into a novel, but it's been downloaded so many times from Amazon...[/SIZE]

Honestly, if you added to this story, I would read it....no problem. I'm sure I'm not the only one either!

We would read it in a longer format, even though we downloaded it as well, it was a great little story. Keri

Monk would be amazing! I love that show, his neurotic proclivities mixed with jack's gruff persona would be hysterical.

I just started reading "Odd Thomas," while not far into the book I think there could be a cool mix there too...

[SIZE="3"]I've been thinking aout how to integrate "Long Way" into a novel, but it's been downloaded so many times from Amazon...[/SIZE]

Makes no diffrence-people would still line up to read an expanded version, esp if old and brand new faces pop up to help or hinder Jack!
Think about it!

As a followup...
I'd like to see Jack meet up with Peter Straub's character Don Wanderley from "GHOST STORY". Since he had a brush with 'otherness' (Alma Mobley was an entity-not a ghost in the book) I'm sure Straub would let him do a guest appearance in a Jack tale. I could be interesting.

[SIZE="3"]A crossover won't happen, but it would have inherent dramatic tension in that Pendergast is an agent of the state and Jack is a career criminal. Make for an interesting ethical bind if he has to deal with Jack. Kind makes me want to invent a Pendergast of my own and throw the two together.

Hmmm...[/SIZE]

not that Pendergast has ever played by the rules or anything....... the interests of the state have never been AXLP's highest priority and I can't see him ever causing Jack any grief when he would likely find RJ's work "creative and delightful". I can't even see Pendergast as ever having actually completed the academy. I think he walked into the director's office one fine afternoon, commented on the weather, handed him a slim manilla folder and walked out after stating he would send Proctor round to pick up his credentials in the morning.
Aloysius has his own secrets and plenty of them. Jack getting to close to one - or even better, figuring it out first-would make for great dramatic tension.

This reminded me of a similar thread on the James Rollins message board concerning him & Steve Berry.
http://phate999.proboards46.com/index.cg...1197854216
They have both managed to slip each other's characters in a cameo appearance in one of their novels.