I was going on holiday and couldn't take much luggage with me, so rather than print books, I loaded up my kindle with some more ebooks from the library. Now, as the library I am a member of has all the Jack Reacher books, I just could not resist downloading number 11 in the series, even though it's only a few weeks since my last hit of this big, burly hero! Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child has an outstanding opening which features someone being thrown out of a helicopter over the Californian desert! Boom, you've got my attention! It turns out that the poor soul ejected from the helicopter was one of Reacher's elite Special Investigators team from his army days. When another of the team manages to get in touch with Reacher, they soon discover that others from their old team are also missing. It turns out that his old buddies are in big trouble, and Reacher gets to work to find out what is going on and whether there is a target on all their backs. There is almost no let up in the action of this book and it is so engrossing that I found it hard to put down. It's nice to see Reacher at work as a true investigator with some of his old team, rather than him just relying on brute force. This made it a far more interesting read for me. There may not be too many surprises and there is the usual requisite amount of violence (it wouldn't be Reacher if there weren't a few broken heads along the way), however, this will not disappoint anyone looking for a thriller that races along at almost breakneck speed. Super!
My STAR rating: FOUR.
Length: 528 print pages.
Price I paid: free, borrowed from library.
Formats available: print, audio download, mp3 CD, ebook.
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