When you want to read a fast-paced thriller that is hard to put down, you can’t go wrong with one of Child’s Jack Reacher novels. This one is no exception. Even though Reacher is similar to all the other hard-boiled ex-military heroes of action books, Child does a better job of character development both of Reacher and of the various good guys and bad guys that pass through the pages.
In this book, Reacher is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a mercenary who is able to pull millions of dollars in cash from a secret place in his apartment. With every trail Reacher follows, the questions grow and few are answered. He discovers the wife’s small daughter also disappears, but his employer Lane doesn’t seem particularly eager to find the child. The book stretches from New York City across the Atlantic, as the clues pile up and the answers aren’t always the right ones. Where is all that cash coming from? What happened to Lane’s first wife? Why did the kidnapper specify what car should be used to drop off the money? What is so special about the vacant apartment building? It is a lot more fun for the reader to learn the final answers than it was for Reacher to track them down.
In this book, Reacher is hired to find the kidnapped wife of a mercenary who is able to pull millions of dollars in cash from a secret place in his apartment. With every trail Reacher follows, the questions grow and few are answered. He discovers the wife’s small daughter also disappears, but his employer Lane doesn’t seem particularly eager to find the child. The book stretches from New York City across the Atlantic, as the clues pile up and the answers aren’t always the right ones. Where is all that cash coming from? What happened to Lane’s first wife? Why did the kidnapper specify what car should be used to drop off the money? What is so special about the vacant apartment building? It is a lot more fun for the reader to learn the final answers than it was for Reacher to track them down.
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