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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Oh really? Wow, they are both former military police? If everytime I come across a character that is an ex Navy SEAL should I be worried that they copy catted John Kelly (aka John Clark in later books) of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books? I think not. There is a surprising number of super hero retired Navy SEALS in books ...  |
I didn't attempt an exhaustive comparison...but there is a lot more than just "genre" similarities.
If I were to write a book with a character named Jayce Delivered (instead of Jason Bourne) who was a special ops guy who had amnesia and the plat revolves around a secret government program that created Jayce.....it wouldn't simply be "spy genre". It'd be a much too close of a copying of The Bourne Identity.
It would be one thing for an unknown to do that...but for an established writer to do the same really is odd.
That said...if you like Jack Reacher books, you'll enjoy the John Puller books as well. No one gets to own an idea in literature. Just think of how many different ways Shakespeare's stories get told and retold.