Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

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There is a flaw I'll mention: what ends up being the true motive behind everything is one that would have occurred to Reacher and the good guys but isn't mentioned until the last few pages.

On the plus side, I suppose this does help us understand Reacher’s mindset, having us as confused as he must be with the parking lot encounter. I guess (like all Reacher fans) I’ve worked out that the story will essentially be a simple one with one or two elements left to resolve when we reach the denouement – tying up a few loose ends and making sense of all the bad behaviour, essentially. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This is, I think, the only Reacher novel in which he never directly confronts the architects of the conspiracy. The left-hand guy was all unstable and up on his heels and his center mass was open and unprotected.Police from the 75th MP, led by Warrant Officer Pete Espin, later take him into custody and bring him to the same prison where Turner is held. Another thing with the repetition: he introduced a ‘flip of a coin’ element towards the end of the book that drove me mad! Reacher fans will delight to his ingenious plan to bust them both out so they can track down some stolen weapons that could kill thousands of Americans.

Many of us repeated the sentiment that Lee Child used when we all went apoplectic over this bad news, and that is:: I know Jack Reacher, and Tom Cruise is not Jack Reacher. Never Go Back is another rip roaring adventure with arguably the most iconic action hero of the modern literary world. Reacher obtains money and a car from a deceased meth dealer named Claughton, but his relatives identify the car, locate Reacher and Turner's motel, and confront them. Through Edmonds, Reacher and Turner learn that an illicit operation was being run through North Carolina under the control of Crew Scully and Gabriel Montague, both Deputy Chiefs of Staff, involving the smuggling of contraband using empty ordinance crates.The first two Reacher books were good and got my attention but the series accelerated with the third book, hit its stride with the fifth through eighth books (the splendid run that started with "Echo Burning" and carried through "The Enemy"—the best four books in a row written by anyone anywhere), and peaked with the eleventh and twelfth books: "Bad Luck and Trouble" and "Nothing to Lose.

the ultimate fate of the puppet-master bad guys was very much of a let-down after a reasonably sturdy build-up to the climax. Active duty soldiers in a logistics battalion in Fort Bragg: Paul Lozano ends up with finger issues, Ronald David Baldacci has elbow problems, Jason Rickard’s problems are more permanent, and Staff Sergeant Ezra Shrago has hexadecimal ears. During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. I hate to say it … but after 18 books, Reacher is starting to suffer from the Spenser Syndrome: a great character that is becoming redundant. The book moves along at a furious pace from beginning to end thanks mainly to an enigmatic leading man but equally to a well crafted and thought out storyline and a sound narrative that keeps the reader keep turning the pages to see just what happens next.As soon as he does two musclemen, clearly military men out of uniform, arrive at the motel and tell Reacher to get out of town, promising that no one will come looking for him if he does, and that they will beat the crap out of him if he refuses to do so. Turner says the mission in Afghanistan was linked to a Pashtun elder, later identified as Emal Zadran, and theorizes that Morgan, the strange men, and some higher-ups in the army's chain of command (who are using the pseudonyms Romeo and Juliet) are working together to protect him.