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Summary: A rarity...a book I couldn't put down.
Review: This was an excellent, suspenseful, action-packed book. I really enjoyed it.
Reacher, an ex-military cop, is passing thru a small Georgia town and is falsely accused of murder. He eventually is set free but he finds himself in the middle of a corrupt, organized group of thugs which includes the mayor and the largest business owner in the town. Coincidently, this group of thugs has killed his brother.
Reacher sticks around to seek revenge on the killers and figure out what led him to this strange place to begin with.
Lee Child does a great job on this premier. He has you at the end of your seat from the start.
I am really looking forward to the next one of this series.
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Summary: Great new hero, great beginning, fine plot, fun reading !
Review: This was our first Lee Child, and his first work introducing leading man Jack Reacher. Jack is a retired homicide investigator for the military police, and as this book opens, just roaming the country looking for something to grab his interest in life. We meet him minding his own business eating brunch in a diner in Margrave, Ga., where after a few minutes, the police storm the eatery and arrest Jack for murder! We all know he's absolutely innocent, but our attention was riveted by Child's technique of having Reacher actually start working the murder case as he himself is being interrogated as a suspect! Spending a day in the slammer as a material witness, along with an unfortunate banker named Hubble, whose phone number being in the murdered man's shoe makes him a suspect as well, Reacher kills (in self-defense) another inmate, the first in a series of brutal slayings depicted throughout the novel. So now we know Reacher can more than take care of himself both physically and mentally. Soon the police discover Reacher's got an airtight alibi for the murder; then it's discovered the victim is by total coincidence Reacher's brother Joe, a US Treasury special agent in charge of counterfeiting. And so the plot is off and running. Before it's over, some bad cops are unearthed, with we readers often getting to smell out the rat in advance, which was fun. Police Officer Ms. Roscoe, who took a shining to Jack upon sight, provides our hero a stirring and sexy romance, which was an interesting sub-plot with which we anxiously awaited resolution. To us, Child's writing skill, his pace and ability to sustain action and suspense, and his crafty plot with just the right amount of complications, has given us a page-turning, stellar new series to enjoy. Can't wait to read our next Reacher!
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Summary: Powerful and violent just the way I like it!
Review: With fast-paced action and creative plot twists, Lee Child's done something I couldn't fathom--write a character (Jack Reacher) who's every bit the man and hero of Stephen Hunter's, Bob Lee Swagger lore. With a compelling first-person narrative, you discover Reacher's depth of character in his love of Roscoe versus his untamed violence. It's a real page-turner! I'm overwhelmingly impressed and plan to read "Die Trying" immediately.
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