While this is certainly due to his life in the military and his extensive training, was that background so different from Caine’s exhaustive and isolated training as a Shaolin monk? I’ve read a couple of Child’s Jack Reacher novellas and short stories, but this is the first full-length novel. While in Chicago, former military policeman Jack Reacher is helping a young woman with an injured leg with her dry cleaning when they're captured at gunpoint by three men and thrown into a car, then transferred into a van and driven cross country. Still if you are simply a Reacher fan you'll probably get along with the book better than I did, I had trouble not just pitching this one and pushed through a lot with major skims.

The whole concept of this ex army dude wondering around the US with nothing but a fold up toothbrush and getting into scraps is so simple but I'm adoring it. first edition uncorrected proof is tight with no markings, light soiling to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and soiling with curling along the edges, forefront page edge shows some layer seperation of wraps. His debut novel, Killing Floor , won two awards for best first mystery and was nominated for two more.The businessmen now looked like scumbags, not solid citizens, and the agents were sick and tired of looking at them as they rode the commuter trains home. Then the leader in the front pulled Reacher along the leather seat and passed him on to the jumpy guy.

I really enjoyed the first Jack Reacher novel, Killing Floor, but this second attempt was utter bilge. Then he had been assigned elsewhere and served all around the world and hadn't really seen a Glock 17 since.

I kind of want a little bit of a follow up so I can find out exactly how it ends and how all the characters get on. Fourth person into the third-floor meeting room was the agent assigned to help Holly out with the fetching and carrying until she recovered from her soccer injury. You are now on a ride where you suspend credulity and start learning something about ordinance, ballistics and how to be unspeakably violent to your fellow man. At three minutes past five in the afternoon, McGrath stared at her empty chair and knew there was a problem. Barmy Beau instructs his mad minions to kidnap Holly Johnson, you know - the guy who was lead singer on "Frankie goes to Hollywood" in the nineteen eighties.