#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jack Reacher is back! The “utterly addictive” (The New York Times) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire.“One of the many great things about Jack Reacher is that he’s larger than life while remaining relatable and believable. The Sentinel shows that two Childs are even better … shows that two Childs are even better than one.”—James Patterson
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee.
But there’s nothing pleasant about the place.
In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. “It was four against one” . . . so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution.
The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town’s data, records, information . . . and secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put, look innocent, and clear his name.
Reacher is intrigued. There’s more to the story. The bad guys who jumped Rutherford are part of something serious and deadly, involving a conspiracy, a cover-up, and murder—all centered on a mousy little guy in a coffee-stained shirt who has no idea what he’s up against.
Rule one: if you don’t know the trouble you’re in, keep Reacher by your side.
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Typical child keeps the pages turning
Lee Child apparently joined with his son for this one, and it is awful. The tone is chatty and over-explanatory, when the great pleasure of Reacher is his terseness and directness. I hope the partnership ends quickly!
Entertaining in the style of other Jack Reacher books although not the page turning anticipation as the early books with the same theme.
As a devotee of Lee Child, I found The Sentinel an entertaining book to read, but I felt that it had a little too much padding in places and didn’t proceed at the usual fast pace as other books in the Reacher series. I enjoyed it and would still recommend it as a worthwhile read, but perhaps not as good as previous renderings.
David Hodges
One of my favorite of Jack Reacher stories.