Listened to audio cd in the car
2010 Delacorte
400 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 5/19/16
Goodreads rating: 4.20
My rating: 4
Setting: Contemporary rural Nebraska
First line/s: "Eldridge Tyler was driving a long, straight two-lane road in Nebraska when his cell phone rang."
My comments: Jack Reacher was a little disconcerting in this entry, at least until the very end. He seemed particularly ruthless and ...blood-thirsty... in this one, much more than usual. But a tiny bit more is revealed just before the very end of the book that made my "thumbs up, Reacher" attitude return. Reacher is his usual foot-loose and fancy-free self in this one, making quick friends and enemies in an isolated small town in Nebraska where one family rules without question. And they aren't a nice family. Of course Reacher discovers what everyone is hiding, how to outsmart one heck-of-a-lot of hoodlums, and end up on the winning side...something you never doubt for a moment. As always, an enjoyable audible treat on my drive back and forth from work.
Goodreads synopsis: There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go.
The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.
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