Reacher, right in the thick of it!The following ratings are out of 5:Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙📔World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌍🌎Character development: 🥺🤭🤫😕😎The Hero: Jack Reacher - he grew up in the military lifestyle and joined the military himself. He spent years as a Military Police officer and has been in a bunch of disturbing situations. Now that he is out of the Military, he has been traveling around and getting to know the country he spent so many years fighting for. Reacher ...

Lee Child truly delivers once again. What a compelling roller coaster ride packed with tension, crime, military intrigue, FBI involvement, and even treason... Jack Reacher is simply an innocent bystander when Holly Johnson, an FBI agent, is abducted by three paramilitary men right in front of him. What are their plans? Where are Jack and Holly being taken? And what about Beau Borken and his insane scheme to create an independent state? In this novel, *Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel*, you'll de...

3.5★“Extreme violence, awesome force. Whoever did that, I wouldn’t want him to get mad at me, that’s for damn sure.’”The “whoever” here was Jack Reacher, and that pretty much sums up the tone of this long ‘adventure’. I’ve read a couple of Child’s Jack Reacher novellas and short stories, but this is the first full-length novel. It's #2 in the series, although they can be read in any order.Plenty of action, some of it a little hard to believe, I have to say, a little bit of character background, ...

Ex-military MP drifter Jack Reacher gets into trouble again, fighting, kicking, breaking, and shooting his way out. So, this is how it’s going to be… and that’s cool. Lee Child is keeping the plot and credibility fast and easy, sticking to the formula that works: hero gets in trouble, fights the bad guys, and kicks ass. There might be a pretty woman needing saving along the way, and of course, she’s going to be attracted to our man. This time around, Reacher is at the wrong place at the wrong ...

It's a good read, but *Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel* by Lee Child didn't quite live up to my expectations after the first book in the series. I found myself wishing the first three-quarters were as gripping as that final quarter. For the first half, Jack's stuck in a truck, an innocent bystander caught up in a kidnapping. Though Holly is far from your typical damsel in distress. As promising as the premise is, after a couple of Reacher's deductions about his fellow "victim," the most thrilli...

Once again, I'm tagging along with Jack Reacher, the ex-military policeman-turned-drifter, on another adventure. *Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel* is the second book in the series, and this time Reacher's in Chicago. He tries to help a young, attractive woman struggling with her laundry while on crutches. For his trouble, he gets kidnapped along with her. The woman, Holly, claims to be with the FBI, and there are other interesting facts about her that will be revealed as the story unfolds. In ...

“Get a problem, solve a problem,” he said. “That’s my rule.” This was a winner!I can wholeheartedly say that this book totally went above and beyond my expectations. It is a brilliant and intense mystery/thriller story with tons of action and several heart-stopping moments. If compared to the first book in the series, the plot is more complex and the characters have more depth. Surprisingly good! I can’t remember the last time I felt like my heart was going to burst from excitement while read...

Since I despised the first Jack Reacher novel, *Killing Floor*, you might be wondering why I even bothered with this second book in the series. Blame it on Tom Cruise. Yeah, I know Reacher fans weren't thrilled with the casting of Tiny Tom as their hero, who's supposed to be 6'5", but I actually enjoyed the *Jack Reacher* movie quite a bit. Believe it or not, a lot of credit goes to Cruise, who managed to convey the cocky arrogance needed while still being entertaining and not over the top. Plu...

So, this time Jack Reacher gets captured by some Waco-esque militia group. They've also captured a, coincidentally beautiful, FBI agent nursing a sports injury. Together, they have to escape, learn to trust each other, maybe fall a little bit in love, foil the bad guys, and perhaps even sneak in a little nookie along the way...In fact, "coincidence" is the operative word in Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel, coincidence and cliché. Frankly, there's way too much of both throughout. I was torn betw...

In Lee Child's second Jack Reacher novel, *Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel*, our ex-Army Major is just minding his own business, strolling past a dry cleaner in Chicago, when an attractive young woman bursts out, struggling with nine bags of fancy clothes, a bum knee, and a crutch. She drops the crutch, and Reacher, ever the gentleman, leaps to help. But in that instant, two armed kidnappers appear out of nowhere and shove the woman into a waiting car.Now, any seasoned crime fiction reader know...