Bad Luck and Trouble

You don't know me!

Another great book, not quite as good as Killing Floor for me but still brilliant! Reacher is quickly becoming a new favourite

As always an adventure with Jack Reacher is tons of fun! In this one we get alot of Neagley time as well which truly cranks up the fun dial. Couldn't put it down once I started it..... ended up buying the audiobook so I could continue it on my drive to work.

Slightly better than the previous couple of Reacher books. Less action, more puzzle solving/mystery than usual. There was still the required amount of violence - this is Reach after all - but most of it did happen until the last 40 or so pages. Nice to meet the group of people who probably had the most influence on Reacher's life, outside of his brother and General Garber.

Though I question how this group of former military/current security experts (especially Nagely)doesn't know anyone in the hacker world who could have found a way around the encryption of the flashdrives. Instead the bunch spend hours acting like a bunch of novice, ragtag wannabe heroes.

Still yet to find a Reacher book that I didn't really enjoy.

Here's what you know going in:
Will Reacher win? Yup.
How many of the bad guys will get what's coming to them? All of them.

What don't you know? What kind of bad guys are there? What bad stuff are they up to? Who will Reacher's allies be?

Nice look at a couple of years in Reacher's backstory along with a typically gripping, pedal-to-the-metal thriller.

OK. This has got to be my favorite. SO GOOD. Generally you know Reacher is going to help out the underdog or the person who can't defend themselves and it's generally a stranger with the exception of The Killing Floor. This time we get a bit of his history with special investigators and the vengeance is personal. Reacher is at his bad-ass maximum & it's fantastic!

Sembrava che gli ultimi due libri fossero tornati in carreggiata. Reacher era tornato ad essere il meglio di sempre, le storie erano tornate a essere non proprio quelle dei primi libri (veloci come una testata che ti colpiva sul naso) ma dignitose e adesso un altro colpo ad un fan accanito del “vagabondo duro” per eccellenza. Una trama che definire noiosa è fare un complimento, il solitario per eccellenza che torna a fare gruppo con la sua vecchia squadra (di cui noi per fortuna fino ad ora non abbiamo letto nulla) è un colpo troppo duro per qualsiasi estimatore di Jack Reacher, è come mettere troppi attori sullo stesso palco che si rubano i riflettori a vicenda; solo che qui ne fanno le spese tutti, ma soprattutto noi alle prese con queste pagine davvero difficile da digerire.

In quanto i comprimari sono troppo stereotipati e risultano scadenti come spalle, scontata all'inverosimile la notte passata insieme con una donna del gruppo e messa lì solo per fare cornice o per dovere da Jack Reacher.

Il libro non decolla praticamente mai e il protagonista sembra essere la macchia sbiadita di se stesso, sembra che l'autore ormai debba scrivere con una certa scadenza e non riesce a produrre storie lontanamente appassionanti come le prime, ma neanche con il binocolo a infrarossi.

Noia, noia e noia.