One of this clever writer's earlier novels featuring Jack Reacher, the maverick loner committed to the good of society especially if there's a lady involved. Ridiculous? Far-fetched? Impossible in these United States? Not if you read the newspapers or have read Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here. Fast moving, chillingly real, a bit too long and deus ex machina - but Child knows his geography and geology and what can result from the military mind gone mad.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 66 Autumn 2012 ) |
