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Jack Reacher (JR) always said he was made redundant in a downsizing campaign in 1997. Fans of 15 novels about him as a wandering one-man army have wondered if this was the whole story. Lee Child’s 16th book about JR prompted lots of reviews from his fans and readers in the US and UK.
JR is ordered to go to a small town in northern Mississippi, living from a secret army base where 400 elite soldiers are trained and maintained. They are rumored to be 2 companies of Army Rangers operating in secret in Kosovo, relieving each other monthly. A beautiful young white woman was found dead in town with her throat slit, all blood drained from her body. The army sends Reacher and another MP separately to the small town, with MP Munro to interview and interrogate base personnel and MP Reacher to pick up clues in the small town, undercover. The big question: was she killed by base people or town people?
JR is at once unmasked as an MP by the town’s sheriff Deveraux. She is 36 like JR, with plenty of MP Marine Corps experience. First hostile and defiant, she slowly allows JR space and time to investigate. He detects two earlier killings of beautiful black women. Often based in the only diner in town and using its telephone, JR learns a lot about the base and the sheriff. But is all information he gets true?
The book has plenty of movie potential. Almost in a Hitchcock fashion, there is a single mile-long goods train crossing a crucial road exactly at midnight, shaking the little town to its foundations. The huge, powerful train also shreds evidence of crimes, ends desperate people’s lives, and with its noise and vibrations helps to enhance the love life of some people, such as Jack Reacher and sheriff Deveraux…
