Ratings67
Average rating3.8
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher.
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As usual its an above standard Reacher novel, I've yet to read a duff one (some are a bit more average).
As someone else has noted it is quite odd that Jack refers to his watch constantly in this book yet in previous novels he just knows what time time it is from his internal clock. Doesn't detract from the book though.
I've got to get past the one thats being currently filmed so the whole Reacher series isn't ruined for me by Tom Cruise.
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo....What the hell am I doing here?
Taught thriller, starts off strong and snowballs into an adrenaline-filled blast. Pure popcorn fun.
After taking a book off from it, Child develops Reacher's character a bit by bringing him into contact with people who knew his brother before he killed. Which is nice and commendable, but it's not his strong suit.
Most of the time, he does what he does best: he puts a target in front of Reacher, gives Reacher juuuuust enough info to keep stumbling from one clue to the next, getting closer and closer to his prey. And when he tracks his prey down things really start going Reacher's way.
Another fantastic entry in one of my favorite series ever written.
We get (a little bit) more of Reacher's back story and a super exciting and mysterious plot revealed in a masterful way. I was on the edge of my seat for 90% of this book and if I didn't have an adult's responsibilities, I would've read this whole thing within 24 hours.
The book also delivered in terms of tough emotional moments and humanised our rather stoic main character slightly more.
Probably my favorite book of this series so far (I say this about every book of this series).
Series
29 primary books42 released booksJack Reacher is a 48-book series with 29 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Lee Child, Marie Rahn, and 7 others.
Series
27 primary books41 released booksJack Reacher Chronological Order is a 41-book series with 27 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Lee Child, Jakob Levinsen, and 8 others.