I've been a Jack Reacher fan for years and usually enjoy Child's novels, always finding some basic humanity in the themes of the lone MP against great odds and a corrupt system.

While this novel is well-crafted and has a complex plot narrated in Child's terse style, I did not care for Jack Reacher in this story. Too much unwarranted killing and too little compassion make the main character seem as malevolent as the bad guys he is after.

This version is an audio book narrated by Dick Hill, another drawback. Hill tends to overact on many of his recordings, making the reader (listener) more aware of him than of the words on the page. This is not television. The voice he uses in reading the female roles make them all sound like hillbilly bimbos.

Too interesting a plot to just stop listening to the story, too irritating on many levels to be enjoyable.