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Robert Lane is the author of the critically acclaimed Jake Travis novels. His debut novel, "The Second Letter" was the Independent Book Publishers Association 2015 Gold Medal Winner for Best New Voice: Fiction.

Florida Weekly states: “Jake Travis is one of the best leading men to take the thriller-fiction stage in recent years. Lane has created a winning hero who is super-skilled, super-fit, oddly bookish, and funny as a stiletto. Lane mixes confidence and doubt, steadiness and recklessness, and toughness and sensitivity in engaging proportions.”

Foreword Clarion Reviews adds: "Lane’s writing is sharp, evocative, and gripping. Travis distinguishes himself from other dynamic PI’s in the genre via his pure zest for life which is often presente ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 5,347 ratings · 455 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Second Letter (Jake Travis, #1) 4.18 avg rating — 1,150 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naked We Came (Jake Travis, #5) 4.07 avg rating — 954 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cooler Than Blood (Jake Travis, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gail Force (Jake Travis, #4) 4.35 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cardinal's Sin (Jake Travis, #3) 4.04 avg rating — 459 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Different Way to Die (Jake Travis #8) 4.51 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Elizabeth Walker Affair (Jake Travis #7) 4.31 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Beautiful Voice (Jake Travis #6) 4.48 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Searching for Dali (Jake Travis, #10) 4.42 avg rating — 248 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Easy Way Out (Jake Travis, #9) 4.44 avg rating — 210 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jake Travis Number Six

What is the title for Jake number six? Except for six months of editing and trying to make every word the perfect word until I can't stand it anymore, the novel is done. But, alas, no title. I do have a working title on the first page. But I haven't settled on it yet.

My first book, "The Second Letter" was named well after it was finished. "Naked We Came" was named a year before I hammered out the Read more of this blog post »

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After Dispatches, I yearned to learn more of the correspondents who covered the Vietnam War. I swore over ten years ago to stop reading books of war. Not working out too well. That’s okay. What did I pull from Once Upon a Distant War? The men, and few ...more
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Considered one of the best books to come out of the Vietnam War, or any war. You are with Herr in the jungles of Southeast Asia alongside the American “grunts,” who realized their fate long before the American public tuned in. Herr eschews the who, w ...more
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A sweeping generational tale in the classic sense. It starts in the fictional town of Bonhomie, Ohio in 1945, and goes through the Vietnam war. Two ordinary couples, (is there such a thing?) separate, yet intwined. Everyday people. Every day challeng ...more
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Rolled into after Florida. This novel is a dissection of a 24-year marriage, from its sex-fueled origin, to its guarded secrets. Prolix at times—to use a word Groff dropped in the narrative to describe a character—it lacks the raw punch of Florida. M ...more
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Picked this gem up in a bookstore. Never read Groff before and was pelted by her writing. Socked in the stomach. This collection of short stories, all tied to Florida, packs heat. Groff’s writing is in a rare class. Each sentence seizes you, one afte ...more
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This delightful book, published in 1999, is Eagin’s ode to the great western half of the United States. The collection of stories is part history, part travelogue, part diary, and solid journalism. Everyone and everything are here. The golden sunsets ...more
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“Hadley III hunched her paws underneath her and delicately consumed her dinner in a civil and dignified manner. Cats are the Audrey Hepburns of the animal world.”
― Robert Lane, A Beautiful Voice

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“My father insists the past is like a rudder on a boat: it’s always behind you, but it determines where you go.”
― Robert Lane, Naked We Came

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“The rest of the afternoon crawled by with the dull consistency of a metronome.”
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