![]() I am definitely the minority when it comes to reviewing this book – the 5 star reviews are rolling in on both Amazon and Goodreads. I have been holding back on this review for days, but when you take the price of this book into consideration, and what is between the covers, I think it is important that potential readers know that this is not up to Lee Child’s earlier standards. The ending, and the reason for all the trouble Jack found himself in, was crazy, far-fetched and not what I have come to expect from Lee Child. The ridiculous fire episode and the aeroplane scene clinched the deal for me. This new Jack does things because he can – not because he must in order to survive. Jack Reacher, in my opinion, has become arrogant – he is no longer the Jack Reacher I have enjoyed reading about all these years. The plot was weak, and every solution to every problem on both sides was just too convenient, unbelievably so on many occasions. There were a few times when I seriously considered not finishing the book, but this is Lee Child and Reacher, surely it can only get better? No, the writing was consistent throughout, it was boring and repetitive. It pains me to say this, as these books have been the highlight of my reading calender for a long time. I am a huge Lee Child / Jack Reacher fan, and have been reading these books for years, but it has got to the point where I say that this could very well be my last Jack Reacher purchase. Where is Jack Reacher? Who is this imposter? It was the closest thing to a home he ever had. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was published on 3 September 2013 in the United States.Īfter an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. Never Go Back is the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18), Lee Child He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise. 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. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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