The coolest thing for me was the breakout of the base: it was cold , logical and well timed, it shows the superiority of the Reacher gene . Maybe you will still enjoy this book if you are a die-hard Reacher fan, if not, I would give it a skip and rather try Lee Child's earlier Jack Reacher novels – they were brilliant. Child whets us with small glimpses of their faceless enemy, high in Homeland Security, tracking their moves under code names of Romeo and Juliet. The furniture was made of wood, all dark and bruised, and the television set was small and old, and the curtains were gray with grime. Reacher does everything with such cool calmness (thanka to his military training) I know sometimes he had my heart pounding.

He has a talent for taking material that in the hands of other authors would be stale and making it seem fresh. Reacher is definitely an odd duck, out of step with the majority of society with his preference for his aloneness. After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.We then spend the next 417 pages finding out why these old cases have reappeared and what is the connection to Maj Turner who has been arrested and jailed. This should not be read if what you're looking for is an in-depth, psychological understanding into the human psyche delivered with beautiful literary prose. to the old office he remembers so well, the new commander (Major Susan Turner) has been relieved of command, locked away in a cell and there are charges pending against Jack (Reacher). There's a lot in this book to support that view, but, as usual, there's a few moments that make it clear that Reacher isn't really "feral," as the other major characterizes him.

There were glimmers of hope, but in the end we're still left with Reacher on his own, kicking ass and righting all the world's wrongs. In part, due to my friends' reviews, and in part because I let my subconscious sift through the rubble that was my initial thinking.His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. The novel was adapted into the 2016 film Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise as the title character. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age.

Probably the worst i have read so far in the series having read all the earlier books in the series several times. Lee Child put Reacher out for movie rights in the very beginning, and no one was biting - until 2005, when Cruise bought the rights to all of the Reacher books. Well, of course, no one threatens to beat the crap out of Jack Reacher, let alone actually do it, and before long the two musclemen are lying comatose next to their car which now has two new dents in the sheet metal from where Reacher has introduced their heads to the side of their ride. Earlier that same day, Reacher arrives at the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th Military Police, to meet with its commander, Major Susan Turner. He stayed on his feet for a long second, and then his knees got the message that the lights were out upstairs, and he went down in a vertical heap, like he had jumped off a wall.Reacher fans will delight to his ingenious plan to bust them both out so they can track down some stolen weapons that could kill thousands of Americans. The biggest problem with it is that you can see the opposition’s point, how they can think what they do. Soon he and the commanding officer are on the run as AWOL fugitives and they leapfrog the country attempting to investigate the ever-thickening plot while also dodging both investigators AND the villains of the piece . It wouldn't be fair to say any more; needless to say the story proceeds as long-time Reacher fans will expect.

From there we launch off into another farfetched but enjoyable Jack Reacher adventure as he (and Major Turner of course) unravel a major (no pun intended there) conspiracy. Jack Reacher is NOTHING like Tom Cruise (probably one of the worst casting I've ever seen, let alone the disgusting need of Hollywood to sensationalize everything it produces). They part ways, and Reacher drops his phone in the trash and walks to the nearest bus bench and sits down, alone.The conspiracy at hand is deep and complex and, as always, Reacher will have to kick the crap out of any number of people who continue to underestimate him in spite of his size. Like all the others I read this in one or two sittings in spite of the fact that some parts did not involve as much action as we have come to expect from this series. Yes, yes, I know, easy enough for a reader to say "If I'd written this, I'd have done this and this. I tried my hardest to finish this book before the movie came out, but I was a couple weeks too late. There is a certain element of romance in the "bad guys" - making space for a good villain on screen.