Jack Reacher is off the grid and living the life of a drifter, digging swimming pools in Key West when a New York PI looking for him turns up dead with his fingertips sliced off. Turns our his former army commanding officer was looking for him but he died before Reacher can get to him. Jodie, his attorney daughter, wants his help with an elderly couple looking for their son, who supposedly died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War.
It’s another good action book, with plenty of brutality and a surprise ending. Reacher as a character is interesting he’s the Sherlock Holmes detective with the muscle to back up the toughest action hero antics.
Yikes I forgot to post this yesterday, ah well I’ll just edit the date to make it look like I did. It’s Friday and here’s another Jack Reacher book that I read a long time ago. This time Reacher is walking past a Chicago dry cleaner and catches a stumbling, attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson who is carry to much in addition to her crutch because of a soccer-related knee injury. Together they are kidnapped by a trio of Montana-based extremists.
It’s more Reacher doing what he does best; violent action.
I am way behind on my book reviews, like 3 years worth. I’ve read them but I haven’t written about them, except for a couple. So I’m going to try and change that and play catch up with all the ones that I can remember.
I’ll start with Lee Child’s The Killing Floor, which I think I read back in 2007. It’s the first of the Jack Reacher series, Reacher is a former U.S. Army Military Police Major who travels the States like a modern day Kwai Chang Caine. (I used almost the exact same phrase to explain the premise almost 1 year ago)
The hook on this book is great, Reacher gets off of a Greyhound bus in Margrave, Georgia because his brother mentioned that a famous blues guitarist died there. He heads into town and is arrested for murder. The story is full of action, and Reacher is an interesting hero, plus you get to learn about currency and counterfeiting.
Recommended.
So a while back I finished a book called Self-Help by Lorrie Moore. It’s taken me a while to gather my thoughts to write about it. The book is a collection of nine short stories about loss, love and family. All of the stories feature well written female characters and the stories themselves run the full range from funny to sad, but all of them are honest portrayals of people rather characters. Her backwards storytelling style was clever and well used.
Lorrie Moore
Finished Nothing to Lose and this was by far, my least favorite Lee Child book. The basic premise of these books is that Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop who now wanders the United States like a modern day Kwai Chang Caine. In this book Reacher ends up in a small Colorado town called Despair and all he wants is a cup of coffee. After he gets attacked in the diner and kicked out of town for vagrancy he decides to find out what the town is hiding. Very dull and uninspiring. Get this book from the library if you’re a fan of the series.
