I like the Jack Reacher series but my goodness this was tedious. I kept putting it down and not wanting to go back to it. Reacher is on a New York train when he sees a woman who meets all the usual requirements for a suicide bomber but when he sticks his snout in, the woman whips out a gun and kills herself. Everyone else on the train car disappears and he is left to explain what happened. Immediately he is hassled by the feds, the NYPD, and some mysterious foreign guys in cheap suits with phony...

I was on page 369 before I realized that one of the characters in this novel by Lee Child was named Lee. Yes, yes, it was her last name, but she is constantly referred to as Lee, and yet I didn't notice till I was more than halfway through the book. I usually notice that type of author hilarity fairly quickly, but not this time. THAT'S how completely immersed I was in the action. This book is utterly absorbing. I am amazed at Child's ability to keep the pace break-neck and the turns switch-back

Book 13 in the Jack Reacher series.Another high action, heart pumping Jack Reacher thriller.Jack just can’t help himself, no matter what the situation he just has to get involved.On this occasion Jack is sitting on an underground train at 2 am, as you do, when he sees a woman acting strangely, just like he would expect a bomber to be acting. Never one to ignore a possible threatening situation Jack approaches the woman with the intention of talking out of what ever it is she is intending. Much t...

4 starsWarning: There are brutal torture scenes at about 38% and 72% through the book. I skipped them. As usual with my reviews, please first read the publisher’s blurb/summary of the book. Thank you. There's a lot of holes in this, and excessive detail a bit too often (a well-known Child flaw), but it's a good ride, very satisfying. I skimmed maybe 30 pages overall to keep an excellent pace, and that worked pretty well for me.As usual, the middle of the book lagged a bit, and you can skip the...

This is book 13 in the Reacher series and he finds himself yet again in the crossfire of violence and crime. When a woman on the subway in New York ticks all the boxes of being a suicide bomber Reacher cannot help but approach her and talk to her. What follows has Reacher dealing with US secret service and Al-Qaeda.Somewhat predictable but still gripping, another good story.

A great insurmountable Reacher pursuit with the “x-military” cop & drifter to the get truth in this typical mystery — his high unstoppable desires to solve no matter what his “personal” cost!Reacher is in a NYC late night subway ride with 5 others, he suspects one passenger may be a “suicide” bomber. When he talks to her, she suspects him as the “law” & shoots herself with a gun.As usual with local law, NYPD police & Others do not want Reacher involved, Reacher only wants to know why? Why can’t

My thirteenth adventure with Jack Reacher and once again what another thrilling ride it was. Only Lee Child could open a book and spend the best part of two pages talking about the make and model of a subway carriage and where it was made and still have me enthralled (however, I was pleased to see this actually had relevance near the end of the story). Reacher’s brain capacity is seemingly endless in the amount of detail that he comes out with in these stories. Gone Tomorrow is a first person Re...

This is among the best of the Jack Reacher novels, and it opens with Reacher riding in a New York City subway car late at night. There are only a few other people in the car, including a middle-aged woman. At this time of night, most other people would be half asleep or at least minding their own business, but of course, Reacher is not most other people.The Israelis have developed an eleven-point system for determining if a woman is a terrorist. (There's twelve things to check in the case of a p...

Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13), Lee ChildGone Tomorrow is the thirteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It is written in the first person, and first published on 2009. It's 2 am, and Jack Reacher is travelling on the New York City Subway. He notices a suspicious looking passenger who matches many of the specifications for a potential suicide bomber. When he approaches Susan Mark with an offer of assistance, she shoots herself. ...تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز شانزهم ماه ژانوی...

"I kept my eyes moving all around the park. Look, don't see. Listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive." -- Jack Reacher, on suddenly being a wanted man, page 369The mediocrity or just plain dullness of the previous chronological Jack Reacher novel, Nothing to Lose, instantly made it my least favorite in the series thus far when I read it two months ago. But in a nice rebounding manner, the follow-up Gone Tomorrow seemed like one of the better and certainly one of the more

Brilliant...One of the best opening chapters of any book I have ever read. Always excellently researched, as always. Following Jack Reacher's logic is thrilling. Read it.

This one's hard to review because any little detail I reveal might turn out to spoil a surprise for someone. I will say this was an exciting, satisfying read. Much more like his earlier Reacher books that got us hooked. Once you get past a certain point in the book, there's no good stopping point. You just have to keep reading right on through. Don't expect perfect plausibility. It's a thriller, so let yourself go and enjoy! There are even a few good laughs along the way. The thing about the rub...

I hate subways. They are a claustrophobic and xenophobic nightmare. Underground tin cans bulleting through tunnels, stuffed wall-to-wall with sweaty, grumpy people. Not my idea of fun. After reading Lee Child's 13th book in his Jack Reacher series, "Gone Tomorrow", I hate them even more.Reacher has a talent for finding trouble. One could argue that trouble finds him, but half the time he does most of the footwork. In this case, a simple subway ride turns into a violent roller-coaster with geo-po...