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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Definitely an above average Reacher book; one of the best I've read so far. Reacher is sitting in a coffee shop in NYC, and sees someone get into a car parked next to a fire hydrant and drive off. The next day, someone comes into the coffee shop looking for anyone who saw the car.
Of course Reacher does, and he is recruited to help Edward Lane unravel a kidnapping and ransom gone bad. Lane is a mercenary and has a team of not-so-nice folks working for him, but none of them are investigators, so he needs Reacher. Reacher is asked to track down the kidnappers and/or victims, but nothing is as it seems. From New York to London to the British countryside, Reacher works the case as he always does.
This one has a lot of good suspense and some good plot twists. The characters are relatively nuanced. Reacher is doing what he's good at. I'd lean towards 4.5 stars but maybe not the full 5.
Of course Reacher does, and he is recruited to help Edward Lane unravel a kidnapping and ransom gone bad. Lane is a mercenary and has a team of not-so-nice folks working for him, but none of them are investigators, so he needs Reacher. Reacher is asked to track down the kidnappers and/or victims, but nothing is as it seems. From New York to London to the British countryside, Reacher works the case as he always does.
This one has a lot of good suspense and some good plot twists. The characters are relatively nuanced. Reacher is doing what he's good at. I'd lean towards 4.5 stars but maybe not the full 5.
Another very satisfying Reacher saga. More then the usual amount of investigative work, typical violence, and a page-turning ending.
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
“Reacher, alone in the dark. Armed and dangerous. Invincible.”
My Dad has been reading the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child for a couple years now. I’m very much, well I think I should read them in order with him always telling me it’s so not necessary. So he left The Hard Way at our apartment last time he was visiting, so I picked it up hoping for a quick good thriller read but not expecting too much. Well I was so surprised because it was so much better than I thought it would be.
Jack Reacher is the central character and is just a man without a place to live, he travels around with only his toothbrush in his pocket. He always knows what time it is even though he doesn’t have a watch. He’s tough. He’s awesome. I want to marry him. Although, I suspect he’s not the marrying kind
“In Reacher’s experience the city that doesn’t sleep sometimes did, at least for an hour or two, on some nights of the week. There was sometimes a short intermission after the late folk had rolled home and before the early people had gotten up Then the city went silent and took a breath and shiny darkness owned the streets. That was Reacher’s time. He liked to picture the sleeping people staked twelve, thirty, fifty stories high, often head to head with perfect strangers on opposite sides of thin apartment walls, deep in slumber, unaware of the tall quiet man striding beneath them in the shadows”
In The Hard Way, Reacher was sitting at a coffee shop in New York City minding his own business when he sees a man walk across the street and get into a parked car. The next day another man frantically comes into the same coffee shop, where Reacher had decided to go for a second night, and asks him if he saw anything as the car had a million dollars of ransom money in it and belonged to one Edward Lane. Jack Reacher gets hired on to help find Lane’s kidnapped wife and stepdaughter and in the process learns of his employers hideous past and dramatic events that occurred in the center of a war a few years previously.
There are 12 Reacher books out now, and I am going to have to start raping the Chicago Public Library or go on Amazon and take advantage of two day shipping.
My Dad has been reading the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child for a couple years now. I’m very much, well I think I should read them in order with him always telling me it’s so not necessary. So he left The Hard Way at our apartment last time he was visiting, so I picked it up hoping for a quick good thriller read but not expecting too much. Well I was so surprised because it was so much better than I thought it would be.
Jack Reacher is the central character and is just a man without a place to live, he travels around with only his toothbrush in his pocket. He always knows what time it is even though he doesn’t have a watch. He’s tough. He’s awesome. I want to marry him. Although, I suspect he’s not the marrying kind
“In Reacher’s experience the city that doesn’t sleep sometimes did, at least for an hour or two, on some nights of the week. There was sometimes a short intermission after the late folk had rolled home and before the early people had gotten up Then the city went silent and took a breath and shiny darkness owned the streets. That was Reacher’s time. He liked to picture the sleeping people staked twelve, thirty, fifty stories high, often head to head with perfect strangers on opposite sides of thin apartment walls, deep in slumber, unaware of the tall quiet man striding beneath them in the shadows”
In The Hard Way, Reacher was sitting at a coffee shop in New York City minding his own business when he sees a man walk across the street and get into a parked car. The next day another man frantically comes into the same coffee shop, where Reacher had decided to go for a second night, and asks him if he saw anything as the car had a million dollars of ransom money in it and belonged to one Edward Lane. Jack Reacher gets hired on to help find Lane’s kidnapped wife and stepdaughter and in the process learns of his employers hideous past and dramatic events that occurred in the center of a war a few years previously.
There are 12 Reacher books out now, and I am going to have to start raping the Chicago Public Library or go on Amazon and take advantage of two day shipping.
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This one was a bit predictable but still enjoyable. Liked how it was set in nyc and London.
This is the second Lee Child's book I have read, and this one was really great.
This book is full of suprises and of great characters (not only Jack Reacher) and I didn't guess the ending.
I'll soon read another Jack Reacher's book.
This book is full of suprises and of great characters (not only Jack Reacher) and I didn't guess the ending.
I'll soon read another Jack Reacher's book.
Another good one that didn’t become a book mill style author. He has a gift and a knack of keeping the audience entertained and good plot twists. Reacher modernised but didn’t sell out. This one was delightful and moving, sadly I think I have almost read all the Reachers!