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This reads like an '80s action movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. A big tough ex-military guy drifts into a small town and is sucked into uncovering a vast criminal conspiracy through completely unbelievable coincidences. - Check. Hero has a cool, manly sounding name: Jack Reacher. - Check Hero is q Leggi tutto

I could not read this. The prose is terrible. Commas are rare. Periods are abundant. It's hard to read. I got through one chapter. I checked later books. They are the same. I had heard good things. I cannot get past this. I am not exaggerating. It's actually worse than this. These are all sentences. Leggi tutto

Oh. I don't know what I thought the Jack Reacher books would be like, but I wasn't expecting what I got. This was written in 1997 and it shows. A lot of macho man stuff. Like, an unreasonable amount of macho man stuff. I mean, I've known a couple of guys who used to work as MPs back in the day, and the Leggi tutto

Suspension of disbelief required I was a policeman of sorts for thirteen years and I can smell a worried man a mile away. The reviews for this one are all over the place. It seems that Jack Reacher is one of those “either you love him or you hate him” protagonists and Lee Child is one of those “either Leggi tutto

This is the book that introduced Lee Child's popular character, Jack Reacher in 1997. Reacher is a former military cop who's been made redundant by the end of the cold war. After spending his entire life in the military (Reacher grew up in a military family), he's now completely on his own, footloos Leggi tutto