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Jack Reacher Chronological Order Series 24 primary works. 32 total works Not the order of release, but the Reacher books and stories chronologically, from his youth to his adulthood. Jack Reacher is a drifter and ex-military policeman.Each book in the series is a self-contained story, and the plot of each book relies very little on.

This isn't a review, because I just started reading this book, but I couldn't help sharing my irritation. I like Lee Child's storytelling skills, and Jack Reacher is a fun character to read about. Unfortunately, his prose is like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Most irritating of all, it's not irredeemably bad, it just needs a good editor. Who is Lee Child's editor? Does he even have one? For instance: 'Are you Jack Reacher?' The guy asked for the third time.

Reacher set his bottle on the table and shook his head. 'No,' he lied. We, the readers, are fully aware this man is Reacher, because we've been told so at least a dozen times in the past three pages. 'He lied' is unnecessary and stupid. It would have had more impact had Child simply written 'No,' he said.' 'Who wants him?'

Reacher asked. 'My client,' Costello said. 'Lady called Mrs. Reacher sipped water. The name meant nothing to him. Never heard of any such person.

The line 'Jacob? Never heard of any such person,' should be deleted from the page, burned, and flushed down the toilet. A few pages later, Reacher enjoys a 'steak that hung off both sides of the plate at once.'

Is there any way for a steak to hang off both sides of a plate not at once? Are these two, irritating little words there to ensure we know that this isn't one of those steaks that hangs off both sides of the plate, but not at the same time, because it has legs and walks back and forth? I could go on and on, but I won't. Tough guy characters need tough-guy prose. To properly craft terse, tough-guy prose, Child needs a good editor. He doesn't have one.update- OK, I finished. Of the first three novels about Jack Reacher, this was far and away my least favorite.

Besides the poorly edited, hackneyed prose, the story takes forever to get going. The first two Reacher books both have slam-bang openings that carry the reader through some of the more boring bits, but this one doesn't, which makes all the repeated verbs and interminably long descriptions of people doing things harder to get through.

The first 200 pages could have been edited down to 75, and pages 200-400 could have been edited down to 100. The climactic 150 pages are pretty good, but it takes too long to get there. The first two Reacher books weren't great, but they weren't boring. Unfortunately this one is. It could have been a tight 325-page thriller, but it's a bloated 550-page snoozer. Comparisons to Hammett and Chandler are way off. If anything, Lee Child is a higher quality Don Pendleton.

Okay, more like it. I have found myself running hot and cold in the Reacher series.

There can be a huge eye roll factor in some of them.and there is a bit of that here. However.this one is very well constructed and the story pulled me in and wouldn't let go. Okay a bit more detail (as I liked this one). So, what's the eye roll factor? Well, let's look at an example. Reacher has been in Florida when he's drawn into the 'mystery' (no spoilers, sorry). He's been making a living hand digging swimming pools.

Once he's drawn into said mystery however events demand he leave, at once. Now see Reacher doesn't carry anything, a pack, an overnight bag.nothing. He doesn't go to laundromats he just buys new clothes when he needs them. So he travels and then shows up at a funeral, not having bathed in 3 or so days, in the clothes he's worn for maybe a week without having shaved or cut his hair in 'who knows when'.

And the girl from his past whom he meets there practically falls into his arms (well that takes a couple of days but she wants to right away). Oh yeah she's lovely.beautiful.described as 'achingly beautiful'. Get the picture?

But that said the book itself takes off and the plot is an excellent one. This one (in spite of the logic straining Reacher details) is a great read. I can and do recommend it. You get some multilayered thinking here and we leave a lot of the somewhat formulaic plotting that showed up in the last book in the series behind. Reacher and his 'achingly beautiful' co-protagonist have a mystery to solve, a puzzle to unravel and a wrong to right.

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Reacher, Reacher, he's our man! If he can't do it, NO ONE CAN! Move over James Bond and all you other wannabe heroes, old Reacher is the real deal, and he's got your back.

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Having spent an inordinate amount of my reading years going back and forth between fluff fiction, non-fiction, thrillers, and history, it was a pleasure to stumble upon Lee Child's 'Tripwire.' I probably never would have found this series if it were not for all the television hype about the Tom Cruise screen version of Child's central character, Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Typically unimaginative, the Cruise screen version of a multi-book series is entitled 'Reacher.' But, somehow, after reading Tripwire, I cannot fathom what the casting director of the movie was thinking when they cast Tom Cruise (5'7') as Jack Reacher (6'5')! Oh well, Hollywood aside, Jack Reacher is a star and this book was fantastic. First of all, this is a guy you can ALMOST relate to, because Lee Child is very deft at showing Reacher's human side(s) in this novel. And the development of the antagonist's character in Tripwire is masterful. Several times during the course the read, I just wanted to walk into the pages and stop this Hook Hobie myself. But Reacher is much better at that kind of stuff than I could ever be, so you really have to wait until the end to find out how things all turn out.

This was my first Reacher thriller, but I can assure you it certainly will not be my last. So, go to your library, book store, kindle, nook, IPad or wherever you can, find a Lee Child novel starring Jack Reacher and start reading. Oh, and BTW, fasten your seat belt and keep your hands and legs inside the vehicle at all times before liftoff!