On this occasion though it isn't your typical small town nice folk who are in need of help but Reachers contemporary a female Major now running his old unit, the 110th MP. 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. Reacher finally makes it to DC to meet the woman he talked with several books ago ("61 Hours") while he was being abused way out west. Child whets us with small glimpses of their faceless enemy, high in Homeland Security, tracking their moves under code names of Romeo and Juliet. A haiku of nouns and verbs, of chase and run, the reading of tea leaves like ripples that point to the track of sharks.

Reading these books one after the other has only made me love this series even more and I am dreading reaching the end and having to wait months for the next one. 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. The part of the description of his physique in Reacher's own words begging to be an introductory shot of Reacher -" "an extreme mesomorph physique, with a six-pack like a cobbled city street, and a chest like a suit of N. So maybe this should be more of a 3-star review, but I have to acknowledge that author Child kept my attention throughout because I often wanted to see how Reacher would get in and out of predicaments. Learning that Turner has been incarcerated on suspicion of taking a bribe, Reacher goes to see her, but learns that she has requested that he not be allowed to visit her.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. By signing up I consent to you using my details to send me Jack Reacher newsletters from the UK and confirm that I have read Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy. Jack Reacher, in my opinion, has become arrogant – he is no longer the Jack Reacher I have enjoyed reading about all these years. I have to say here, even allowing for the comments above about my love for this character and Childs flowing writing, that I did find the story of two Deputy Chiefs of Staff being involved in a nefarious enterprise and the poor 'help' they employed to take out Reacher and Turner more than a bit weak overall. Lee is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards.

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. Through Edmonds, Reacher and Turner learn that an illicit operation was being run through Fort Bragg army base in North Carolina under the control of Crew Scully and Gabriel Montague, both Deputy Chiefs of Staff, involving the smuggling of contraband using empty ordnance crates.Reacher finds that, a) Major Turner has been arrested and placed in a cell off base, b) he is accused of a 16 year old murder and c) that he has fathered a child and being sued for maintenance and of course the 'icing on the cake' well as far is the efficient Colonel is concerned, is that he has just drafted Reacher back into the Army as a Major, making him subject to all military regulations.