Mostly Good -- Predictable Reacher Brain-Fart at the End

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	• Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) Lee Child Delacorte Press, 2009 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 241 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If you like Bond...

OK, so Lee Child isn't exactly Tolstoy or Dickens, and his hero is a misanthropic thug, but who hasn't daydreamed about being a non-person, wandering about using wits, wiles, and fists to right injustices and settle scores? And that's Jack Reacher who does not try to subvert or trick the system with false IDs and such. He takes the bus, pays cash, buys new clothing when the old stuff wears out. No family, no friends, no entanglements, no regrets - a strong, self-reliant character who floats on the surface, diving deeper only when he feels an injustice has been done. The premise is strained, no doubt, but the writing is just good enough to make it readable. I find it a guilty pleasure and enjoy watching Reacher get himself into and out of difficult circumstances, trying to make things right. So, yep, most of the one- and two-star reviewers are correct, but then they probably think James Bond is not entertaining. If you don't much care for Bond, Reacher won't please you much either, for Reacher is the crude American cousin to Bond. Who says sociopaths aren't entertaining?

If Reacher bugs you, try Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield series - you'll probably like her since her sociopathic behavior is rooted in her heritage so it's OK. The irony light is on here, folks, so no outrage at my aparent insensitivity.

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Mostly Good -- Predictable Reacher Brain-Fart at the End

I'm 90% done but just have to take the time to write the review now. Very satisfied to this point -- but putting the book down out for an hour or two out of frustration.

Don't reach further if you don't want to know about the ending...

Throughout the book Reacher has shown a vast knowledge of many subjects, spewing facts and specifications like he just read the manuals on everything he sees. As usual, he as shown great ingenuity and cleverness - more so than his opponents. Of course, until the end...

After starting out with 30 rounds to kill 12 enemies, he ends up having only 1 round for the final 2. He has previously picked up a gun with 9 rounds and instead of putting the gun in his pocket, he empties it and puts them in his pocket (supposedly AFTER noticing that they are the same caliber for his machine gun).

Question/comments for the author: a smart man either loads them into the machine then, or keeps them in the hand-gun - having 9 rounds in your pocket in the middle of a gun-fight only server one purpose - to make the end of the book more exciting (but belieive able) than it should be.

We can forgive the liberties you take as Reacher can always figure out which hotel or restaurant (out of a possible 100+ available ) his target has chosen. That's part of the Reacher appeal. Same with the size, strength, ability to wake-up at any time, etc.

Making Reacher a friggin-idiot is not what your fans want to see

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Jack Reacher on the Loose in Manhattan

Gone Tomorrow is another in the series featuring ex-MP, Jack Reacher, and his brand of vigilante justice.

The story begins with Reacher on a New York City subway car when he notices a woman who has all the indicators of being a suicide bomber, except she is in a low-value target area; an underground vehicle with only five other people in it. The story starts with a bang and gets even crazier from there as Reacher criss-crosses Manhattan sorting the good guys from the bad guys.

Gone Tomorrow is much better than the previous Reacher novel, "Nothing to Lose." Reacher still makes some amazing intuitive leaps and there are a few things that defy logic, but Gone Tomorrow is a fun ride for Reacher fans.

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enjoyable, but Child's earlier books are still better

Reacher is becoming an stereotype, u know he is going to win every fight, no matter how good the other person is. The basic story is becoming redundant, he always beds the . His complete alienation from technology makes no sens for someone so informed about things like "10 signs of a suicide bomber"
But nobody does this better than Child, the story still pulls you along. There is enough mystery, and enough unknown to keep you going. I will keep reading the series.

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Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan?by dozens of people with one thing in common: They?re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.

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