The Old Man, Perry - B-

                                               This is the second book I've read by this author and it's hard to characterize the genre. He seems to specialize in people on the run. In 'Butchers Boy', the protagonist was a hit-man, who spent a lot of time in hiding and trying to avoid getting hit himself. Here, the lead character is a former Army special-ops agent who has been in hiding for 30 years because a Libyan warlord, with friends in the US, has been after him. They catch up to him and he leads them on a trans-America wild goose chase and finally, ends the whole process by returning to Libya and assassinating the warlord. This is a classic summer beach-read.