I've just read my first Jack Reacher novel! I guess this is the blokey bloke's equivalent of 50 Shades.
They're by Lee Child, this one was "Bad Luck and Trouble" or something equally macho
Now, it's artistic ambitions may be limited, but it was a hell of a page-turner. Brilliant writing, if that's the sort of thing you're after. It's quite like Raymond Chandler writing for fans of Bravo Two Zero. Snappy dialogue; sparse prose that does the job; fast-moving plot with cliff-hangers and reveals at the end of every chapter
(This also allows me to rubbish the comments about Tom Cruise playing Reacher in the forthcoming movie. Yeees, Cruise
is about 60% of the size of Reacher - but this is 99% irrelevant to the story, and to Reacher's character. )