Jack Reacher #10audio read by Dick Hill
2006, Brilliance Audio
10 unabridged cds (12 hours)
$36.95 (I got from PBS)
384 pages
Rating: Liked it a lot/ 3.5
List of Jack Reacher books on Lee Child's website.
This installment begins with Jack Reacher enjoying a coffee on the sidewalk in lower Manhattan when he is approached and asked about something he may have seen the previous night. The way that he is accepted into the lair of a ruthless, wealthy guns-for-hire Edward Lane is the only part of the story that was hard to believe. Nevertheless, Lee Child has to figure out a good way to get our footloose-and-fancy-free protagonist involved in the exciting plots he finds, so I had to overlook the less than believable start. Thank goodness I didn't give up, because it got better and better.
Edward Lane's wife, Kate, and her 8-year old daughter have been kidnapped. Although Lane's "A-Team" of ex-military sharpshooters and gunhandlers can't figure out what to do, Reacher, in his usual blunt, brusk way brilliantly finds minute clues and follows them to one story, then another, and then on to London and the Norwich countryside.
This was an excellent story with all the twists and turns that I love, very little "cozy," and just a touch of ooh-la-la. So far I've read three Jack Reacher novels, and I agree that they don't have to be read in order. So I have lots more in the future!
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