Jack Reacher

5

Paperback

Third Person

Fiction

17

Carmen Greer wants out of a bad marriage, but it’s going to be tricky. Her abusive husband, Sloop, is in prison on an IRS beef; he’s due out soon, and he knows it was Carmen who turned him in to the feds. Faced with losing her daughter to Sloop and his full-pockets Texas family, Carmen takes to auditioning hitchhikers for the job of killing her husband. She winds up with ex-military cop Jack Reacher. He won’t kill Sloop, but he does take a job as a ranch hand on the Greers’ spread in hopes of protecting Carmen. He never gets a chance. Soon after Sloop returns, he’s murdered in his bedroom with Carmen’s gun. She refuses to defend herself, even though Reacher is certain she’s innocent. This fifth Reacher novel is brilliantly plotted, and Reacher himself seems to get more deadly as he slips steadily down the economic ladder, ever further removed from the veneer of normalcy that military life provided. Reacher is a one-man wrecking crew nourished only by the hunt.

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2018-06-26 16:35:34