matteandre

This is the first in a series with more than a dozen novels in it, all featuring the ultimate strong silent type, Jack Reacher. I won't pad my book list by listing each individually. You have to imagine a man 6'5" tall, who can kill five or six opponents in a hand-to-hand fight, survive severe wounds, outsmart consistently the worst criminals, and who kills without guilt whenever it's the quickest way to solve a problem. If you can imagine it, and not gag, these are the airport thrillers for you. In the two books of the series I've read, both in the Kindle edition, the body count is approximately Reacher 7, bad guys 0. In this novel, Reacher, who is traveling around the country like a hobo, six months after being RIFed from the army, is arrested as a possible murderer in a small Georgia town. One of the victims turns out to be his only brother. If I remember my probability calculations correctly (and I very well may not), the odds of two American brothers running into each other at random in a small town where one of them has never been before, is about 78 billion to one. If you can tolerate that kind of statistical literary license, these are the airport thrillers for you.

2023-06-04 18:13