Jack Reacher: Persuader

I read fictions only from the library. I figured the good ones will eventually work their way into the system. The popular one all have long waiting lists. I would request them, and patiently waited my turn, sometimes for months. While I am “between books,” I simply checked out one of those mass market series. There are many prolific authors who cranked out many books with very consistent style and format. Some call them the travel books: the one you buy at the airport bookstore and discard at the hotel when you are done. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series is in such category.

Although the plot largely predictable, I enjoyed reading every Jack Reacher so far. I guess I identified with the protagonist: a modern lone ranger who wandered into the small town and took care of people from the big bad wolf.

This time, however, he was a revenger: getting back to a big bad guy who wronged him 10 years ago. The general weakness of this book is Lee Child developed the story line too slowly, almost as if he added the flash-back subplot as an after-thought.

Several fight scenes were excellent, the fist fight with Paulie being the best.

Highly recommended for your next trip to wherever.

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