Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18)

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A haiku of nouns and verbs, of chase and run, the reading of tea leaves like ripples that point to the track of sharks. Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. They even introduce a baby – a sub-plot about Reacher having father a child 14 years before - that is hard to believe, particularly when the 14-year old kid acts like a 35 year old war veteran. He is discharged from military services, owns nothing but the clothes on his back which instead of throwing in the laundry, are thrown into the rubbish bin when dirty.

I remember slowing down considerably between 40 and 60% of the book - but then it again thankfully reconnects by the 70% mark and makes for a good fast page turning read - the kind you expect from a Reacher book. Out of all the consequences that arise out of human motivation I do think that the threat of isolation and the threat of death are among the top two motivations that drive humans to do what they do.Liking the sound of her he decides to head to Virginia from South Dakota and turn up unannounced and ask her out to dinner. There’s also a major question mark over something from his past and I think Lee Child missed a trick by not exploring this further because it could have spun a whole new series. So maybe this should be more of a 3-star review, but I have to acknowledge that author Child kept my attention throughout because I often wanted to see how Reacher would get in and out of predicaments. I found out about Jack Reacher late, so I didn't have to wait for annual installments until about 5 books ago. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

There are some nuances about Reacher, that are part of the package of who he is, that are missing, or misleading in this latest book. He keeps the action cranking better than anyone, but, best of all, he keeps us guessing about Reacher. But while Reacher is going back to his old stomping grounds, I didn’t get the impression that he saw the place as home.

Like all the others I read this in one or two sittings in spite of the fact that some parts did not involve as much action as we have come to expect from this series. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The limitation itself didn’t add anything to the mechanics of the story – there was no hidden significance - but it did detract from the flow when yet again Reacher walked the same two blocks between the same two buildings and saw the same bus rolling by in the same direction.