Book review: A fresh start, and crimes to crack, for Baldacci's Archer
Grand Central Publishing, 448 pages, $29 The adventures of war veteran Aloysius Archer resume in “A Gambling Man,” the second in a post WW II-era series by best-selling thriller author David Baldacci. After serving time for a crime of which he was innocent, Archer (he prefers to use his last name) heads out West for a fresh start as private detective-in-training. “But first, he had to get there. And these days, nothing is easy, particularly long-distance travel across a country that was so big it never seemed to end.” A stop in Reno (“The Biggest Little City In The World”) proves ...