Kristina Saramaga Saramaga من عند Kirkby Green, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN4 3PF، المملكة المتحدة من عند Kirkby Green, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN4 3PF، المملكة المتحدة

قد يكون أحد كتب أطفالي المفضلة على الإطلاق ، و "Westwoods" مجرد قصة أطفالي المفضلة في كل العصور. يمكن.

I don't know about this book. I read an older Jack Reacher novel and it was very tense and well written. Lee Child's writing (and his research) definitely improved as he went along. This first installment in the Reacher series was just OK. There are a lot of very implausible things that happen in this thriller... things that make you just sort of go "Oh, come on." The story is told from Reacher's perspective in the first person. He's ex-military and is pretty much a vagrant. He has no home, no address, no permanence of any kind. On a whim he asks the bus driver to let him get off near a small town in Georgia because his brother once told him about a blind guitar player's death and he wants to see if he can find out anything about it. He hasn't spoken to his brother for years. Wouldn't you know that he is arrested for murder as he sits in the diner eating breakfast and the murdered person just happens to turn out to be his brother, who also just happens to be a hot shot in the Treasury Department? (Interestingly, no one from the government seems to be concerned that he's gone off on a job and then disappeared-- huh?) Add a yuppie banker in deep trouble, a pretty lady cop and a Harvard by-the-book lawman. Mix in a group of villains so stereotypical that it's almost funny. Toss in a weekend in the pen and madness ensues. If I had read this novel first and not One Shot (which I believe is the ninth in the series), I might not have continued. However, since One Shot was so good, I will give Lee Child and Jack Reacher the benefit of the doubt and keep going. I do hope that he gets better fast.