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Switching from the first person narrative to third person here is also a big improvement s because rather than the main character telling us how awesome he is we get to either see it or have it relayed from an outsider’s perspective. It helped that Reacher is thrown into a scenario more fitting of an action hero rather than splitting time trying to play detective. I did like this one a lot more than Killing Floor. The cherry on top of that scene is that Reacher thinks that he wouldn't have any problems taking out the gunman one-handed because apparently he doesn't deem the problem worth dropping the dry cleaning he's holding, but he's worried about stray bullets going into a crowd of people behind him so he decides to play along. Reacher has just gotten swept up into a kidnapping plot that has huge implications for the U.S. Suddenly armed gunmen show up and force them into a car. Reacher is walking down a Chicago street when he sees a young woman with an injured leg struggling to deal with her cane and the dry cleaning she just picked up so he tries to help her out. Now retired he wanders around the country off the grid while making a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jack Reacher is a former military policemen who is the baddest bad-ass who has ever bad-assed. Besides, it could be another opportunity for me to be trolled by the hardcore Reacher fans, and who can resist that?
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Believe it or not a big chunk of the credit goes to Cruise who managed to convey the cocky arrogance needed while making it entertaining instead of over the top.* Plus, several people whose book judgment I trust have told me that the series got better over time so I figured I’d give Lee Child another shot.
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Yeah, I know the Reacher fans were generally unhappy with Tiny Tom being cast as their hero who is supposed to be 6’5”, but I actually enjoyed the movie adaptation Jack Reacher quite a bit. Since I despised the first Jack Reacher novel Killing Floor you may be wondering why I read this second entry in this series. If the book changed like the earlier 100 pages earlier I would have give it 5 stars definitely. The difference between the start of the book to the end was, at the beginning I was waiting for the pace to pick up, but the last 150 pages I could not put the book down.
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I especially like the way Reacher is forced to face one of his own phobias, this is mark of a hero, not someone with no fear but someone who feels fear but overcomes it. This is where Reacher changes from prisoner to action man. The last 1/4 of this book is where the action is. For this Holly's injury was a good idea in the story. Ok there are short bursts of action, with Reacher in a no win situation not being able to leave someone dependant on him. As good as the premise is after a couple of deductions from Reacher about his fellow "victim", the most exciting thing in these pages was Reachers mental maths to keep his mind active. Though Holly is far from a damsel in distress. The first 1/2 of the book Jack is stuck in a truck, an innocent passer by in a kidnapping. I wish the first 3/4 of the book were as gripping and more like the last 1/4. Good book, but not as great as I was expecting after the first book. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.
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Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. 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. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment.
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Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring.
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He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham.