David Baldacci "The Forgotten"

I read an interview with Lee Child in which he discussed, in childish spite, his distaste of Baldacci for "ripping off" his Reacher series.

Naturally, this pushed me to read one of the disputed books.

The first few chapters were good, but it steadily went downhill from there. Wooden dialogue and an endless number of one sentence paragraphs lay ahead.

Child is a skilled writer; Baldacci a skilled workman. I don't see the book as a copy, or a threat, to Child.