Jack Reacher
You can ask anyone, I’m not usually one to pick up a book, and it’s even more unlikely that I’d be caught reading one. In fact over the last year, apart from daily reads of websites (which often contain relatively large stories/articles), and various tech (read: geek) books, the only books I’ve read are:
- Tucker Max – I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell…
- Maddox – The Alphabet of Manliness
In the last ten days I’ve doubled this, and now I’m onto my third book. This is amazing because, as we’ve already estabilished, I don’t read, so it takes something unusual to break the literary drought. And I’ve definitely that something I think. Lee Child’s alter ego Jack Reacher is just about the most interesting character I’ve ever read about, which tells me a) Child write’s f*&king good books, or b) I’m uncultured and haven’t read anywhere near enough books. I’ll go with option a, because I know how cultured and cool I am.
So far, I’ve read too of Child’s books, One Shot, and Bad Luck and Trouble, which kept me glued from start to finish. The former is about a seemingly random mass murder in Indiana by a trained sniper where the crime is completely faked and made to look like it was a retired army Marine who did the shooting, and the victim’s weren’t all completely random (shock horror). The latter involves half of Reacher’s old Army group getting killed for uncovering a plot to ship new U.S missile technology to terrorists and Reacher meets up with the remaining four members of the group to bring justice to those taken down. As usual, weapons, money and a whole lot of violence is involved.
One thing I really liked about the first book (that I didn’t notice as much in the second) is that the whole book plays out almost exactly like a Law and Order episode. I’m a Law and Order nut, if its on I’ll watch it, and even episodes I’ve seen before rate pretty high on the re-watchability scale (as long as they’re not watched in close succession). Apart from the abomination that was Trial By Jury, or Justice By Jury (something like that), I’ve liked pretty much every episode that I’ve watched in the past 18 series the original show has been running. And I appreciated that about One Shot. It plays out like any cop/military drama, and it keeps interest the whole time.
I’d had Lee Child recommended to me recently, and by coincidence, the newspaper The Evening Standard happened to have a free copy if you bought a copy of the paper. So I guess advertising works, as I’ll now probably continue and buy the rest of his books, starting from the first of the series of course.
Anybody want to recommend me some good reading?
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