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Personal by Lee Child
2.0

This one was oddly disappointing for me. Somehow the compelling suspense of the previous Reacher books seemed to be completely missing. Perhaps it was the fish out of water story that placed Reacher in Paris and London and under the somewhat control of various spy agencies as he battled an assassination plot. Reacher is of course never out of his depth but this foreign angle just didn't interest me as much. The main villain is pretty much absent for the whole book so the confrontation element was reduced and the intermittent conflicts with minions were just somewhat odd (one of the lead baddies is of goliath-like size). The connections between Reacher and his allies during this one also felt distant. All of these elements which normally are the key winning points of a Reacher book were missing for me. No real great Reacher one-liners either.