![]() He’s intelligent, shrewd and has a gift for being able to sift through and digest information while thinking on his feet both tactically and strategically. What I liked most was that as big and strong as he is, this is no simple, brawn-sporting lug with low voltage wiring upstairs. **This is early Arnold and not the later model that comes with man boobs.Īs you can probably glean from the above, I think Jack Reacher is pretty much THE MAN. Furthermore, the murder seems to be only a tiny part of a massive conspiracy involving the entire town and the body count quickly begins to rise.įrom here, our giant bag of nut-crushing head-knockery becomes a one man Sherlock Schwarzenegger** and proceeds to hunt clues, piece together evidence and unleash a batch of industrial strength payback on a whole gaggle of bad guys. At this point, the story takes a dramatic “you must suspend your disbelief” turn when the recent murder ends up having a very personal connection to Reacher. So after an eventful weekend in prison during which he redecorates the faces and figures of a handful of inmates, Jack is finally released from jail. Seems some gentleman had his head removed with a shotgun blast and Reacher finds himself as the prime suspect. When he arrives at a blip on the map called Margrave, Georgia he finds himself immediately arrested for murder. Since leaving the army, Jack’s been doing the “Kung Fu” drifter/wanderer act across the U.S. This guy can wetwork with the best of them. That said, when the moment is right and Jack is required to muster his inner grim reaper against the human stains who have wronged him and his.man is it ever G-fucking- O time. He keeps his feelings in check and doesn’t phase easily, even when scummy douchesacks intentionally strive to work themselves under his skin. This emotionally restrained tone is employed even when he’s describing scenes of grisly, gore filled carnage of which this book has plenty. In typical hardboiled fashion, Jack’s narration of the book’s events is muted and almost detached. Reacher’s a former military police officer who is cucumber cool and carries himself with a calm, quiet stoicism that reminded me a lot of Shadow from Neil Gaiman’s American Gods(another favorite character of mine). As hardboiled protagonists go, this guy is loaded with awesome and I was well and truly won over by the end of Lee Child's debut novel. Jack Reacher is a walking, talking, 6’5” prescription-strength laxative guaranteed to cause scumbags to soil their skivvies. ![]()
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