You will find no spoilers here, which means that the secrets of “Make Me” must stay undescribed. Child has dug very deeply into his story. The truth about Mother’s Rest turns out to be something neither he nor the reader can see coming until Mr. Usually he walks away from one novel and into the next without even getting his hair mussed.
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So “Make Me” offers the faintest indications that something about him may change, because this book’s spectrum of good and evil is so wide, and its depths of horror so extreme, that it seems impossible for even Jack Reacher to come away from it unchanged. And that maybe some new outlook is needed. Child is surely smart enough to know that Reacher is starting to sound like a weary, over-interviewed celebrity on these subjects. Right here, today.”) And what kind of nothing he does. This time it’s “a few bucks in my pocket, and four points on the compass.” He’s also asked where he lives. What does he carry with him? Usually the answer is “Everything I need and nothing I don’t,” which can mean a toothbrush. Child has to reiterate the basic things about Reacher that he’s said in each one of these books. Not much to work with, is it? Especially when Mr.
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To the dismay of all the moles in Mother’s Rest, who make phone calls reporting on Reacher’s whereabouts whenever they spot him, he and Chang move into the local motel trying to figure out where Keever went. But we hear from only about a dozen characters, all of whom wish he’d go away.) And there is one other visitor, a good-looking female detective named Chang whose partner, Keever, has mysteriously disappeared. (Reacher guesses the population must be a thousand. There are signs that this a hub for agricultural commerce in five very large grain elevators in a place that has very few people in it. Was some beloved old biddy immortalized by her family? Did a young pregnant woman die on a passing wagon train long ago? Whatever the reason, he walks and walks (a favorite pursuit, for those new to the series) long enough to determine that there is no marker or monument explaining anything about Mother’s Rest, period. He claims it’s just the name, with the suddenly sentimental Reacher wondering what kind of woman earned it that moniker. “Make Me” presents a huge one, but it takes its sweet time in revealing what, exactly, is underfoot in the vaguely sinister hick town that tempts Reacher. Child does his best work when he ventures into gutsy new challenges, and “Personal” didn’t present any. So was “Never Go Back” two years ago, but the tepid “Personal” (2014) came between them. Child, whose cerebral tough-guy thrillers all follow the same basic rules, is just one more genre type repeating himself in a mechanical way. Everything about it, starting with Reacher’s nose for bad news, is as strong as ever.īear that in mind next time someone tells you that Mr. The question is, what are you going to do about it?”).
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20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee (“Are you going to be a problem?” “I’m already a problem.
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#JACK REACHER BOOKS IN ORDER GOODREADS SERIES#
Lee Child’s Reacher series has hit Book No. He appears to have gotten off a train in the middle of wheat country, for no better reasons than he liked the cryptic name of the town, Mother’s Rest, and that he’s got foolproof instincts for sniffing out trouble. “Grain, meet the railroad” Jack Reacher tells himself, after he’s picked the latest sinister little Nowheresville in which to spend a book’s length of time.