The Affair (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: The Affair  (Jack Reacher novel)
Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

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.

Echo Burning (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: Echo Burning  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81330-2

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?

In the blistering heat of Texas, Jack is doing what he always does. Walking and awaiting a ride. But is anyone going to give a six foot five, dangerous looking,  sweaty stranger a ride? That too when the rugged landscape is eerily empty and blistering?

A cadillac does stop. It is a very preety, young woman offering Jack a ride. But it has a hitch attached. The lady's husband is in jail. When he comes out he is going to kill her.

Jack agrees to help her, but is there more to the story than meets the eye? Her husbands family is clearly hostile, the cops cannot be trusted and lawyers wont help. 

But there is an understory of killing of the border crossers. Isthe local police involved? 

A gripping story of human debasement, domestic violence and corruption.

Another must read Jack Reacher novel.

Worth Dying For (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-593-06567-9

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?

In Nebraska a drunk sits in an empty bar. The phone rings, and a woman asks for help. She has been badly beaten by her husband.

Seven men are having dinner in a nearby steakhouse. A stranger shows up and leaves one of them unconcious with a broken nose.

Someone gets a call about this tough & stubborn stranger. He settles in for a long wait with a sniper rifle.

And Jack is bruised & battered and isnt planning on sticking on long. But the clannish locals dont want him gone, they want him dead. 

This is what raises the hackles on Reachers neck. What is the secret of the lonely shed? What is there in the sleepy rural county? Is it worth dying for?.

The Hard Way (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: The Hard Way  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81587-0

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 Reacher is sitting in a New York cafe sipping a coffee. He knows he is being shadowed. But the feeling is not new to him. And he awaits for the hunter to approach him.

The hunter does. But what surprises Jack that it is an appeal to help locate a kidnapped wife and her child. And the one making the appeal, the hunter, himself is a n ex British Army soldier and so is his entire team and he himself runs a security agency.

Now this is an intriguing case. Jack has to sweat the details and work the clues. But it has to be done the hard way.

What starts on the busy streets of New York explodes into a battle for love and life in the sleepish English Countryside.  And there is reacher amidst this, armed and dangerous.

A must buy and a must read. 

One Shot (a Jack Reacher novel) by author Lee Child

Book: One Shot  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher: Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81586-3 and 0-553-81586-5

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?

In one of the many heartland cities of America, during the noon, around lunch hour, 6 shots are fired indiscriminately into a crowd of innocent people. This random shooring leaves 5 dead.

But within hours the cops have it all solved and wrapped up. .... or as they call it a slam dunk case. The have picked an ex army veteran with all the clues matching........ Except one thing....

The accused man keeps on repeating :Youve got the wrong guy..... and Get Reacher for me.

Reacher responds to a veterans call and steps in to investigate this act of random vileness. Or is there more to these 6 shots than meets the eye?

Persuader by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher Novel)

Book: Persuader  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81344-9

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 Reacher never forgets. And one guy who he would have liked to forget is Quinn, presumed dead …. until now. But now Quin had resurfaced, meaner. Novel starts with Reacher being witness to a gunfight in which a cop dies. And Reacher has to ignore it to protect and innocent citizen… or is it? Jack Reacher uses all his guile and some more to infiltrate a Mafioso family. But why would the drifter Jack get involved in what should really have been an FBI operation. Was Jack making it personal? If so why.? What looked like a simple business of rugs had some more sinister facets. ….. and Jack is in the midst of it, to pay a personal debt. 

An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Nothing to Lose by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher Novel)

Book: Nothing to Lose  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81811-6

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 Reacher is footloose again and stand midway between two Colorado honky tonky towns, Hope and despair. For want of a cup of coffee, Jack picks one town randomly and walks in for his brew. But surprise…. He is picked up by the local law enforcement on charges of vagrancy, booked and gets a ride back to where he started.

When Jack faces a wall, he butts his head against the wall till it gives in.  What is it that the town is so desperate to keep from Reacher?  Why are the locals so furitive and what are they on the edge about? What is with this religious cult and doomsday prophecies.? More intrigue and dark secrets that meets the eye.

A good effort by author Lee Child, not my personal favorite, but an action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Killing Floor by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher novel)

Book: Killing Floor  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-50540-5

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 Reacher is drifting along and reaches a decrepit town in Georgia. Reacher takes his break there and walks on a whim into Margrave to honour a guitar played who died there 3 decades ago. Its Reacher’s bad luck that there is a murder in town, and he being the only stranger, the murder is pinned on him. Will Reacher have met his match in the law? Will he be doing time? And what is it about this town that everyone is so fearful and reluctant to talk.?

An good read, an action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Tripwire by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher Novel)

Book: Tripwire  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81185-8

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 Reacher is trying his best to remain anonymous. He is digging pools in Florida !! But his anonymity is being probed and prodded by a man, who turns out to be a private detective. When Jack tries to get in touch with him the man turns up murdered. When Jack tries to probe more into this, he is confronted with his past. Jack likes no strings to the past and yet here he is faced with his mentor and his mentors daughter, his ward, his responsibility. She seems to be involved in a deal. But when Jack probes further the clients turn out to be a salacious, greasy character known in the underworld as Hook. Why would Jodie be dealing with Hook? Is her life in danger? Or is there more than meets the eye?

This book is one of Lee Childs better efforts. An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Without Fail by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher Novel)

Book: Without Fail  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81343-2

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?

And now this drifter is being actively searched by an woman at the core of US power base. She needs Reacher’s help to track down an elusive killer who is supposed to be targeting the Vice President of the United States of America. Is everything what it seems or are there shadows within shadows. Is it the VP that is being targeted or is it really the President.

Will Jack Reacher be able to ferret out the killer in time?

An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Bad Luck & Trouble by author Lee Child

Book: Bad luck and trouble (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81810-9

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 Reacher is all of the above and more. But he has to respond when he gets a code message via his Bank account credit slip. His  old buddies are calling out to him. He has to get all of them together. One of them, their own, has been murdered. Thrown from a helicopter onto the vast desert. They are faced with an enemy that is ruthless in his ingenuity.

With this hard hitting reality is also mixed an international gang of terrorist out to hijack  a stock pile of missiles to target USA and Kashmir. Will Jack Reacher be able to save his team and himself? Will he prevent this threat to USA in time?

An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. One of Jack Reacher’s best. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

Die Trying by author Lee Child (Jack Reacher Novel)

Book: Die Trying  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-50541-2

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?

On a windy Chicago street Jack Reacher tries to help a woman on crutches with a loaded laundry bag, and gets involved in a kidnapping. He too is kidnapped with a shotgun aimed at his stomach.

Tied along with his co-hostage in handcuffs, in the back of a pick up truck, racing across deserted America,  Jack Reacher uses all his ingenuity and street savvy to keep himself and the woman alive. She claims to be FBI, but is she? The kidnappers say nothing as to the purpose. And yet the sanity and security of the woman is threatened at every pit stop. Can Reacher use his guile, his intelligence and his brute strength to save himself and a crippled woman, before the truck reaches its destination, where they are to be killed.

An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

61 Hours by author Lee Child

Book: 61 Hours  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81813-0

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 Reacher is on a bus in the midst of a snow storm somewhere in North America. The bus skids and stops, leaving all the passengers in the bus confined to a small town till an alternative is arranged in the circumstances.

The town serves as a supply and amenities base to a high security prison compound. But is it what it really seems? There is news of an imminent prison break.

And yet Reacher senses something amiss. How does a midget from South Americas fit into this whole puzzle. Amidst the freezing cold and snowstorm, Reacher has to protect an old woman who seems to know more than she tells. And an entire towns police seems unable to provide her protection.

An good read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller. The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.

The Enemy ( Jack Reacher Novel) by author Lee Child

Book: The Enemy  (Jack Reacher Novel)

Author: Lee Child  (www.jackreacher.co.uk )

Publisher:  Bantam Books and Random House (www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.rbooks.co.uk and www.randomhouse.co.uk )

ISBN: 978-0-553-81585-6

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?

New years, 1990, Jack Reacher, Military Police gets a call about a dead officer in a motel. When he reaches there, he gets a surprise. The dead man is a 2 star General. When Reaccher questions the hookers doing the rounds of that motel, he learns that the General for sure wasn’t with a girl. Then who killed him? When Reacher goes to deliver the news to the widow he finds her brutally murdered. While the investigation is on, a soldier is murdered on the army base. His investigation into these murders takes Reacher to US Army bases around the world, and yet the answer is elusive.

Will Jack Reacher persevere in his quest for truth as a Military Police? Will he find the reason behind the string of murders? Will he do this at the cost of his Military career? Will he remain in the Army while breaking its rules?

An absolute must read, a buy to be treasured, action packed thriller.

The book : One Shot is now a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise.