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One Shot
by Lee Child
One Shot
By Lee Child
9.2/10
One Shot was published in 2005 and my personal copy clocks in at 495 pages.
“Reacher checked into a downtown hotel called the Metropole Palace, two blocks east of First Street […] He paid cash upfront for one night only and used the name Jimmy Reese. He had cycled through the presidents and vice presidents long ago and was now using second basemen from the Yankees’ non-championship years.”
One Shot is Jack Reacher book nine and still I haven’t grown tired of Lee Child’s exceptional action hero. I use the Jack Reacher novels as palate cleansers between larger or more complex books, they help me get back into the flow of reading if fatigue hits me and they work every single time. I haven’t read a single JR book I haven’t loved. Of course you could say that they’re formulaic, that they’re cookie cutter novels with the same basic structure but a different story every time and maybe you’d be right, but they’re still fantastic thrillers in their own right and I really can’t get enough of the character. Jack Reacher is a bit of a vagabond, an ex-military cop who wanders the USA seeing sights and meeting people, but trouble always seems to find him- a little like John McClane from Die Hard. Reacher is a modest tough guy who isn’t just brawn, he can outsmart the best of them which is why I think he’s such an interesting character. One Shot is the story of a mass shooting and an investigation into the past of an ex-sniper which will bring back bad memories for Jack which he’d almost certainly prefer to stay buried.
By Lee Child
9.2/10
One Shot was published in 2005 and my personal copy clocks in at 495 pages.
“Reacher checked into a downtown hotel called the Metropole Palace, two blocks east of First Street […] He paid cash upfront for one night only and used the name Jimmy Reese. He had cycled through the presidents and vice presidents long ago and was now using second basemen from the Yankees’ non-championship years.”
One Shot is Jack Reacher book nine and still I haven’t grown tired of Lee Child’s exceptional action hero. I use the Jack Reacher novels as palate cleansers between larger or more complex books, they help me get back into the flow of reading if fatigue hits me and they work every single time. I haven’t read a single JR book I haven’t loved. Of course you could say that they’re formulaic, that they’re cookie cutter novels with the same basic structure but a different story every time and maybe you’d be right, but they’re still fantastic thrillers in their own right and I really can’t get enough of the character. Jack Reacher is a bit of a vagabond, an ex-military cop who wanders the USA seeing sights and meeting people, but trouble always seems to find him- a little like John McClane from Die Hard. Reacher is a modest tough guy who isn’t just brawn, he can outsmart the best of them which is why I think he’s such an interesting character. One Shot is the story of a mass shooting and an investigation into the past of an ex-sniper which will bring back bad memories for Jack which he’d almost certainly prefer to stay buried.