Un volum cu o poveste interesantă, comparativ cu altele din serie. Vietnamul nu este doar o pată neagă a istoriei SUA, este durerea părinților cărora le-au dispărut copii, a secretelor rușinoase și a căutării disperate a unor răspunsuri.

I'm flying through this series, just as Jack is flying from city to city, solving things in his usual foolproof manner. I am listening and this speeds up the process, and again, we are in the very capable hands of narrator Jeff Harding.Jack drifted to a new town, and is digging swimming pools by hand, of all things! I had to have a giggle at how we are witness to all the physical exercise he is doing with this task and building his body of steel, tweaking and peaking to perfection.I enjoyed the ...

“What kind of book is this?” he asked.I thought about the answer to that a moment.“What kind of book is this?” he asked again.There are many ways to respond to that question. I should think about this for a second longer.“What kind of book is this?” he asked a third time.It’s the kind of book that has somebody repeating questions a whole bunch of times while other characters ponder things so if you’re already irritated you should probably avoid it.Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher has been livi...

Somewhere on Lee Child’s desk there is a formula that looks something like this:1. Remind the reader that Jack Reacher is an ex-MP drifter; he’s tall and strong and dangerous – a tough guy’s tough guy, damn near bullet proof.2. Through no fault of his own, and without looking for trouble, Reacher gets in trouble.3. There will be a pretty woman and she will be attracted to Reacher.4. Create a sadistic bastard as an antagonist.5. Construct a thriller with mystery elements to keep the pages turning...

Ok, so despite all the advice and my own thoughts , I went ahead and read another Jack Reacher, so that's 3 in just over 2 weeks. Did I find it boring and/or formulaic as I worried I might ? No, in fact I actually enjoyed this one the most of the 3 so far. A good story well written. Bring on the next, but maybe in a few weeks eh ???

My reading record for Lee Child’s Reacher series hasn’t been stellar – The first book in the series, and the second of the two I had read, was a dreadful regurgitation of genre clichés and one of the worst books I’ve ever read. The other book (#7), which comes later in the series was better – entertaining enough, and if the reader gets past the asshat-clever, narrative tomfoolery, not a bad read.So why continue with the series?The trailer for the second Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise looked p...

4.75/5There wasn’t as much action in this book as there was in the previous one, but it was full of suspense which helped move the story right along. The investigation was incredibly intense and thrilling. It kept me wondering and guessing almost up until the end.The author did it to me again! On the one hand, I really wanted to know the truth after being kept in suspense, but on the other hand, I didn’t want to turn the next page because I was too afraid something very bad would happen to those...

This is the third Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child. My husband and I "buddy" read these. My husband loves Jack Reacher. After reading the first two in the series, I can see why the Reacher novels are so appealing to the male population. Lots of details on guns and weapons and lots of action. I enjoyed the first two as well, but not like my husband did. This one though made me a bigger fan. This is one of the third person novels. Jack is in Florida digging ditches for swimming pools when a private...

This isn't a review, because I just started reading this book, but I couldn't help sharing my irritation.I like Lee Child's storytelling skills, and Jack Reacher is a fun character to read about.Unfortunately, his prose is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Most irritating of all, it's not irredeemably bad, it just needs a good editor. Who is Lee Child's editor? Does he even have one?For instance:"Are you Jack Reacher?" the guy asked for the third time.Reacher set his bottle on the table and shoo...

After tangling with an extremist militia group in far northwestern Montana in his last outing, the third Jack Reacher novel finds the ex-MP digging swimming pools in Key West--about as far away from Northwestern Montana as one can get without leaving the United States. When a private investigator from New York named Costello shows up in Key West looking for him, Reacher has no idea who might have sent the guy looking for him or for what purpose, and so he tells Costello that he never heard of Ja...