Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )
ISBN: 978-0-593-06571-6
The hero of this series is Jack Reacher. Lets get it straight at the start of the review. He is a man’s hero and a woman’s dream man. No nonsense, less emotions, less of mushy wooshy stuff. Tough exterior, good looking in a rugged way. Drifter, who doesn’t have any strings, nor any loose ends. Retired trained Military police, or in his own words: the man who keeps trained killing machines in check and order. Absolute expert in weapons and martial arts. Doesn’t fight often, but when he fights you have to call in the insurance people…. for the place and the people. Do I have your attention?
Jack, in this novel, is still a major with the military police. He is sent undercover to investigate the military style murder of a woman in a small hicky town in Mississippi. The catch is that a big army base is the lifeline of that hicky town.
Jack has to coordinate with the County Sheriff, an ex US marine, and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere, with either Pentagon stonewalling her...... or she doesnt really want to find the killer.
Jack is faced with the double dilema of shadowing her and shadowing the killer. The climatic end with Reacher having to face a gang of US marines in a local bar is the stuff what makes the legend JackReacher.
