Worth Reading: Most certainly Yes.

Summary: Reacher has a list. A list that’s used to identify a suicide bomber, from someone who isn’t. He’s sitting on a train and he’s just checked off every item on the list as he’s watching a woman sitting in the same carriage. He decides to approach the woman and perhaps talk her down. However, as he does she blows the top of her head off with a revolver.

What happens next throws Reacher against some of the most fanatical people he’s ever seen.

If ever there was a person I want to model my life on its Jack Reacher.

I can’t put my finger on it but this novel is different to other Reacher books. It may not be all historically or factually correct, but it is a work of fiction and Lee Child has license to write the way he chooses.

It’s 5 stars from me, and 5 stars from me.

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Worth reading: Yes

Summary: Jack Reacher has been digging swimming pools for weeks. It’s the longest he’s been in one place for a long time. The lack of money can do that to a person. He’s also been working a second job. A bouncer for a night club.

Now a private detective has been looking for him. Reacher doesn’t know why and doesn’t much care, until the private eye ends up dead. Reacher still doesn’t much care, but he’s come to the realisation that the P.I. died because he was looking for him. That’s enough for Reacher to want to find out what is going on, but could he be losing his touch in the investigation game?

This is another riveting Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. Jack is forced to face people from his distance past, and could this mean the end to his care-free, wandering days?

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Worth reading: Yes.

Summary: Five people have been targeted and gunned down. All were head shots and the weapon was a military sniper rifle. All clues point to an ex-military sniper by the name of James Barr. The evidence is perfect the result is a foregone conclusion. The DA is going for the death penalty. But James Barr isn’t talking. Not to anyone. Not the police. Not his sister. Not even his lawyer. He has said only one sentence... “Get Jack Reacher!”.

Jack Reacher is drifting, at the moment on the beach. He gets back to his hotel room, paid by the night and only one night at a time, and sees the news report. James Barr is the prime suspect in the slaughter of five people in Indiana. Jack Reacher leaves his hotel room, this time James Barr won’t get away with it.

Classic Jack Reacher!

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Worth reading: Yes

Summary: Jack Reacher, hitching through the states drops in on a town called Hope. He’s got nowhere to be and plenty of time on his hands so he decides to head on to the neighboring town of Dispair.

Dispair looks like a town time forgot back in the 50’s. Trying to get a cup of coffee in Dispair sees him delivered to the county line by the local constabulary. Crime: vagrancy.

Reacher has never been evicted from a whole town. He decides to find out why.

Another action packed novel by Lee Child and well worth the read. I think Jack Reacher embodies the neanderthal man that all men wish they could be.

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Worth reading: Yes

Summary: After a bit of a scuffle in a bar with an off-duty red-neck police officer, Reacher has to make a quick exit from the small town. Hoping against hope for a lift by anyone to anywhere fast, he stands on the side of the road in the baking heat. Time is running out before the local constabulary see him, when he's picked up by a young woman.

Carmen has been driving around the state with the last dollar to her name in her purse. She's looking for someone. Someone scruffy looking, strong and looking like they need money. Someone to kill her husband. She finds just such a person standing on the side of the road in the baking heat.

Yet another unputdownable "Reacher" novel by Lee Child.

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Worth reading: Yes
Summary: FBI crime investigation

I've only just started reading titles by Lee Child in the last couple of months, and I have come to like them a lot. I can read several one after the other which I find difficult with most other authors. The key character in all Lee Child's books is Jack Reacher. Ex US MP of 13 years, now drifting around the country and world.

From the back of the book:
"Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint. Both apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher."

If you like "who dunnits" with a common central character with lots of gratuitous violence then Lee Child and Jack Reacher are for you.

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