#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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As usual, Jack Reacher literally stumbles into the plot. Only an author with Lee Child’s chops could write this. Reacher plays the good Samaritan which of course leads him to battle with a lot of bad guys.
Lots of fights, misconceptions and action.
I preferred this book to the last one.
This was a good, clean, easy to read classic Reacher! Liked the way the author pits the two rival gangs against each other! Reacher has to stay one step ahead of loan sharks, thugs and assassins! He does this with the help of some locals! It is a little farfetched that they go up against these two factions and come out unscathed but then again it’s Reacher we’re talking about here!
Another great Jack Reacher book. Thrilling, action packed, hero to the rescue.
Anything Lee Child does is worth reading reading it’s better than going to the movies because you can run this movie in your mind.
Set in an unnamed town, Reacher is arriving on a bus when he identifies a fellow passenger that appears to be targeted for theft. Very soon Reacher learns the man’s problems run much deeper, and Reacher steps in to help. Fans will find much to like in this book, but there will be no difficulty for somebody to start the series with this title. Highly recommended.
I’m a fan of Lee Child and Reacher. His characters are well formed. Great stories. I’ve never been disappointed with one of his books.
If you like a good Jack Reacher book, you will enjoy
I’ve read all the Jack Reacher books and loved them all. This latest one, Blue Moon is among the two or three best of the best. As a thriller writer myself, I admire Lee Child’s ability to craft characters, plots, locales, and subplots. Very well done, Lee Child!
Proofreader needed – Blythe and Bliss should not be interchangeable. “Didn’t have dog shampoo” twice in the same sentence? Still, an excellent book and great characters. I would recommend this book..
Love this author! I never miss a book.
If you[re a Jack Reacher fan, you’ll love this book.
I am almost ashamed to say that I have never read a Lee Child book before this one and it may be that this may not have been the best one to start with. Perhaps I should have begun at the beginning, as it were, with book one.
However, I was quite looking forward to reading something thrillerish and fast-paced; plot driven rather than character centred; where good prevails over bad. And that is what I got in reading Jack Reacher, sort of.
It started off well as Jack Reacher notices something on the bus that he is sharing with others: a man with a very large amount of cash in his pocket being eyed up by some slippery toe-rag who Jack correctly surmises will rob the man with money as soon as he gets a chance. I liked the way that Reacher intentionally tries to help and accidentally gets drawn into a situation that threatens to catalyse into a war. In a time where there is a chance that if you get involved in someone else’s trouble, you may end up getting hurt, Jack Reacher is the man to show you how with elite military training and presence of mind, this may actually work out okay for you.
I’m not sure at what point in the story I began to lose my interest. It’s not that it completely went away as I wanted to finish the book; it was just that it started to become more and more difficult to continue to read once you could see that Reacher was going to triumph and organised crime was going to lose. Reacher is determined to find an individual who has disappeared with a whole load of money and is possibly being sheltered by or working for one of the two crime rings. The last few pages are all about getting to him and I found that I just skipped some to make it to the end, speed reading the core information to get the gist of the action but less of the detail. That is never a good thing.
This experience has not put me off Reacher but I do think that I would have enjoyed this story more if I’d have seen it as an action movie. Enter Mr Cruise, stage left.
It’s good to get back to a Jack Reacher book after a year or two away. The logic continues to be good. Sometimes things go well, other times badly, not using luck to solve story issues. Of course, well written with lots of action. This book does show Reacher being more of an assassin than a guy forced to do things. It is a change in his moral standing.
The Jack Reacher books have become more and more formulaic as the series has progressed. The first books in the series seemed authentic and contained snippets of Reacher’s past that humanized him. Later books still had credibility as Reacher used military contacts from the past. But now Reacher is forty-seven or thereabouts, and even he admits that he is slowing down. In this book, Reacher acts to save Aaron Shevick from a mugging, but before long Reacher is incapacitating the entire Albanian and Ukrainian mafias. Quite a stretch. One other notable change is that Reacher now relies on guns and killing to get his point across. This is probably the last Jack Reacher book I’ll read.
My first Jack Reacher. Not sure if there will be more on my booklist. Modern version of shoot em up Western with gangsters!
Excellent book by my favorite author. Hard to put down. Lots of action and technical detail.
Jack Reacher was not the character that he has been in previous novels. I did not feel I was reading a novel by Lee Child.
Lee Child writes an intelligent can’t stop reading book. All of them.
The later Reacher books are so formulaic and mindlessly violent. The plot if this book and the characters were nonsensical. Sad; this was a great series and Jack Reacher was a wonderful character.