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Collision is one of Jeff Abbott's standalone thrillers, and it is among his most efficient pieces of work. Two men, total strangers, both with secrets, meet at the kind of small Texas truck stop where coincidences look like coincidences. Within thirty pages, one of them is dead and the other is on the run with a USB drive he should not have. The book moves.
Abbott is good at the propulsive thriller. The chapters are short, the perspective shifts are clean, and the supporting cast (a homeland security agent with an agenda of her own, a gunman who has been hired to fix the situation, a family caught in the middle) all earn their pages. The conspiracy underneath the surface accident is plausible without being cartoonish.
Four stars. Recommended for fans of Lee Child and the Reacher-adjacent thriller school. A solid airport read with more on its mind than the cover suggests.
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