#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. “Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” This isn’t one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own … times.
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
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If you are a Jack Reacher fan you will like this book. I wasn’t as into this book as I was in past books (I’ve read them all). It is a bit of a change from Lee Child’s past Reacher books.
Another amazing Jack Reacher book! Loved the characters including the bad guys. Loved all the deductive reasoning throughout the story.
I like Lee Child’s writing and his main character, Jack Reacher. There is something formulaic about his books, but not so much that it ever gets boring. This one seems to be more set up vs action which I like.
You can’t go wrong with any of the books, some got me on the edge of my seat eith nerves. I this book was very entertaining. To me it wasn’t as “edge of your seat” as many of his books are.
Read it. It is a good read.
The body count is a little higher in this one than most of Reacher’s adventures, but I always enjoy Child’s sharp prose and Reacher’s keen observations and deductions.
Jack Reacher is always a character full of surprises. You never know where the ride is going, but you definitely do not want to get off!
This book was a disappointment, not as well written as previous Lee Child books. His Jack Reacher character in this book is a murdering, not thinking, kind of hero. Or anti-hero. Plot is weak. I do not recommend this book.
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series is suffering the fate of too many long-running series. It’s becoming predictable. Of course, that may be exactly what Reacher’s fans want. In this installment, Reacher wars against the Albanian and Ukrainian mobs in an unnamed American city, to right wrongs done to an elderly couple who are fighting to save their daughter from cancer. Early on, Reacher finds a sweet young thing working in a bar to share his bed and adventures, and we’re off and running. Fine if you like that sort of thing.
My biggest problem with the series these days is that all the suspense is gone. Reacher’s not only gonna win, there’s no one or nothing that’s even gonna challenge him. He just mows through the bad guys like they’re not even resisting. It’s pure catharsis, again, which may be exactly what Reacher’s fans want. Will I buy the next one? I swore after I read the last book that I wouldn’t, but guess what? At least I didn’t pay full price for it. Child’s still doing something right, but I wish he’d take a chance and change the formula.
I love the series, but this is not one of the better entries.
Call it 2.5 stars–somewhere between disappointing and OK on the BookBub scale.
The usual Reacher tropes are here, but he seems much more callous and violent this time. I found the first half of the book to be pretty slow and meandering, and I don’t think it used the tension it tried to create well.
The second half was better up to the rather silly finale.
Read it if you’re a series completist. If you’re someone who picks and chooses your Reacher books, this is probably one to skip.
The worst of the Reacher books and I’m a big fan. Jack has become a gratuitous killer. Too wordy. Lots of filler.
Vintage Lee Child and Reacher is as good as ever.
Reacher is wonderFul. Very heroic and saving the damsel in distress which strictly speaking was an old couple. His love relationship was charming in the course of destructive pursuit of all enemies which were many.
As always! Lee Child is great.
Another “can’t put down “ Reacher tale!
No offense Mr. Child but believe readers need to be a true Reacher fan to enjoy this one.
I love Lee Child and Jack Reacher, but this one just didn’t do it.
Reacher was off. He was wordy, even loquacious, so unlike him. And he acted different. Not the Reacher I am used to.
Don’t get me wrong. Totally readable. If I had never read another Reacher book, it would have been fine. Just not what I have come to expect of Child.