In thriller master Lee Child's short story "Deep Down," Jack Reacher must track down a spy in soldier's clothing--by matching wits with four formidable females. Sexualizing a 13-year old girl and Jack, also 13, like breaking some kids bones with heavy-duty WIRE wrapped around his fist? Interspersed with the early portions of this story are snippets of two different individuals heading toward the center of D. It lasts long enough for Reacher to make his trademark brilliant deductions on scant evidence, and, OF COURSE, to knock out vastly superior forces using only native wit and his right elbow.

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The assignment that awaits him: The army is meeting with its Capitol Hill paymasters for classified talks on a new, state-of-the-art sniper rifle for U. It's a hearing before a procurement committee on the Hill, and there's a suspicion that one of the liaison officers is selling the design to a foreign manufacturer. Two are set in Reacher's childhood and one is set during his service as an officer in the Military Police. By the time I listened to the third part I would have given the "book" 5 stars but then came the strange part at the end with "Jack Reachers Rules" which was just odd!

I tried with his novel “One Shot” but couldn’t make it past the first few pages of description of a city.

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If you're a huge fan, you'll probably love it, but if you only follow Jack Reacher so far, then this might be a bridge too far for you. I liked that we got a glimpse of Jack Reacher as a teen and how his mind discerns things even at that earlier age. The story is fun, but 13 year old Reacher is way too smart for a middle school kid, even if he is Jack Reacher. But vital details about the weapon are leaking from someone at the top of the federal government and probably into the hands of unidentified foreign arms dealers.

Real Type-A personalities: smart, busy, focused—not the type to waste time on a hunk, no matter how hunky. Whether the suspect is the guilty party, or this is just a red herring, surely this should at least be remarked on by someone of Jack Reacher's implied skill. Is it to give us the feeling of being inside a military op with the too small suit and the shirt that reaches halfway down the arm and PX shoes?

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But I have no other complaints -- good stuff (he has sort of a Stan Lee quality to his voice from time to time -- if Child ever made him say "true believers," I'd flip). Usually involving Reacher being laconic and vaguely unhelpful with someone in authority - one of the main reasons I like the books is precisely because Reacher gets away with saying all the faintly bolshie things I would love to. Stone just tells folks, Mitch’s girlfriend screams it, and Reacher — barely into his non-investigation has the urge to just tell the women under suspicion who he is and for whom he works. Now I will admit that I have a lot to learn about this canon but I was under the impression he was a traveller from one situation to another figuring out problems and dealing with situations along the way rather like the littlest hobo but more fists and brain work than cute eyes and a loving disposition (go on who recognises that reference). High Heat (August 2013) Reacher story available as a digital single, in audio or as bonus with US paperback edition of Never Go Back.A good reading buddy of mine sent me a note that said I need to get caught up on my Reacher reading. Second Son (August 2011) available as a digital single, in audio or as bonus with US paperback edition of The Affair. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two.

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Twenty-nine-year-old Major Briony Walker is the fourth officer and is from a navy family and all public schools as well. That's the beauty of having plenty of options to choose from, to have a variety of books by various authors to choose from and to compare with, we can sooner or later identify what's good and what's not so good.And the truth could very well cost him his life as the story built to a suspenseful, violent climax. Leave the 20th Century IN the 20th Century and come over to where the girls and the gays are writing books that are less absolutely creepy. So the story here is that one of four high-ranking military women is a double agent selling military secrets to the Ruskies and it’s up to Jack Reacher to sit down with them and figure out whodunit. I don't want to spoil your fun, but just here, in those three novellas, we see Reacher as a 12 y/o kid, not only fighting and winning against other guys, much older than him and outnumbering him, but also same time he's solving some kind of mystery doing his own investigation and following his own clues, doing his own deductions and solving a critical case on the base, for the real MP's - military police - of the base that can't solve this case without this 12 y/o kid intervention. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies.