Jack Reacher 25
My version: Paperback
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Publisher: Transworld
First published: 2020
ISBN: 978-0-5521-7742-9
Pages: 423
Bought
From the cover:
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along.
Not going to happen.
The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He’s an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks.
As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them…
Not a bad effort. You know what you’re getting with Jack Reacher of course. So there’s a limit to the definition ‘Thriller,’ which would surely need a little more uncertainty to the outcome, wouldn’t you think? But it’s well done and a great read non the less. Here, while there is sometimes a feeling of Reacher being a little out of his depth with all the high-tech jiggery-pokery, the fundimental problems he is trying to solve aren’t dependent on knowing a password, or what Python is, so he’s in his element – seeing the big picture, and knowing who to hit first.
It’s a pretty seamless transition to the books being written by Andrew Child as well, if this has been written by him alone, or in collaboration. I’ve not seen the explaination of who is writing what now, to be honest. I don’t know if it’s a Robert Ludlum, Vince Flynn-type affair, where the whole thing has no input from the original author (them being dead now, of course), but because he invented the character and his name sells, then his name is included. Or if Lee Child and Andrew Child (his brother?) are writing it as a collaboration.
Reacher is always described as a big chap, and that type of description has been noticably used more since the Tom Cruise attempts. They were good, I thought, but even with camera angles and all, there’s no getting round that Tom Cruise just wasn’t big and brawny enough. The guy in the TV series though, I feel is a bit too big and brawney, a bit too finely tuned. I struggle taking him seriously I’m afraid. Just as big, but a few kilos lighter I think would work better.
You can buy The Sentinel by Lee Child and Andrew Child from Amazon
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