Tuesday, November 14, 2017

66. A Hard Man to Forget: The Jack Reacher Files by Dan Ames

Jack Reacher Cases #1  (Though it's marked #3 on Goodreads, I'm pretty sure this one is the first one.)
read on my iPhone
2017 Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
200 pgs.
Adult Mystery
Finished 11/14/2017
Goodreads rating: 3.86 - 499 reviews
My rating: 3

First line/s:  "The two men with guns walked behind the man carrying the shovel."

My comments:  I never really became engaged with this story, not even sure who the actual protagonist was until near the end, since the story jumped around from one setting to another.  It kept my interest, but I would have liked to have been pulled into the story more.  I was merely an observer for this one.

Goodreads synopsis: Book One in THE JACK REACHER CASES.
          Former FBI agent Lauren Pauling met Jack Reacher in THE HARD WAY, the 10th Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child.
          Now, in A HARD MAN TO FORGET, Pauling is a private investigator in New York and receives a mysterious letter with Jack Reacher's name, along with a phone number. Pauling calls the number and reaches a woman whose husband has gone missing.
          Even stranger, the woman claims she didn't contact Pauling, and has no idea who Jack Reacher is.
          Intrigued, begins to investigate and when the woman becomes the target of the same men who may have abducted her husband, Pauling recruits Michael Tallon, a former special ops soldier.
          Pauling and Tallon quickly realize they're dealing with much more than a missing persons case, and soon they're in a deadly race to stop a terrifying act of mass murder.

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