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This book is pre-Killing Floor in Jack Reacher's timeline. Reacher is asked to shadow an investigator sent to look into a murder very close to an army base. Great story, as always. I just wish there were more stories with Joe, his brother or other members of his team.
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Reacher's origin story is one of the more impressive entries in the series, and in a way I'm glad that Child waited so long to write it because it integrates well with the person Reacher has become over the life of the series. I especially like that this one's a little less obvious than the rest - the twists feel natural but are somewhat harder to anticipate than they are in other outings.
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Dec 12, 2011
Pam
rated it
it was amazing
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CHILD, LEE -- The Affair -- 5/A -- 12/08/11
Crime Fiction/2011/Random House/405 pgs
#16 in Jack Reacher
1997/Carter Crossing, MS
Jack Reacher -- Military Police/Army
1st lines: The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six & a half milion square feet, 30,000 people, more than 17 miles of corridors, but it was built w/ just 3 street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby.
Comments: LOVED IT!!! I skipped ahead and read #16 before 2-15, I really wanted to know the back ...more
Crime Fiction/2011/Random House/405 pgs
#16 in Jack Reacher
1997/Carter Crossing, MS
Jack Reacher -- Military Police/Army
1st lines: The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, six & a half milion square feet, 30,000 people, more than 17 miles of corridors, but it was built w/ just 3 street doors, each one of them opening into a guarded pedestrian lobby.
Comments: LOVED IT!!! I skipped ahead and read #16 before 2-15, I really wanted to know the back ...more
In this -number 16 of the series- we go back in time to when Reacher was still in the military, and some of the questions raised in the earlier books are anwered. Some of his character traits are also set up to explain his anti-hero behaviour in the rest of the series. Vigilante justice prevails- Reacher follows his own set of rules, and always stays the hero at risk to his own life and limb. Somehow for me this one didn't live up to several of the previous books in the series- and Reacher himse
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Prequel... filling in the backstory... predictable... for the die hard Reacher fans... every time I read a Reacher book I kick myself for not keeping a body count total - especially as I just read straight through the entire series... ah well... "[s]he shrugged" ...
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Dec 20, 2015
Amanda
marked it as to-read
Sep 04, 2023
Megan
marked it as to-read
