Don't let the military aspect put you off a fabulous book - Rated 
I picked this book up in the airport to read on holiday not expecting anything but an average but good holiday read. I couldn't put it down. It completely surprised me. By the end of the first chapter I was so bumused and enagaged by the plot and the main character that I was engrossed for the next two days.
Although Jack Reacher is a gruff, predatory loner, something about him makes you want to learn more and more about how he has come to be at the point in his life where this novel starts. It was full of action, full of twists and turns and I found it refreshingly orginal in the over saturated thriller/crime genre.
I have since gone on to read most of the other books by Lee Child and while they may never again have the same impact is this introduction to Jack Reacher, they are still my holiday novel of choice 7 years on.
God Awful - Rated 
This book receives good reviews, dont be fooled. This book is rubbish! from start to finish. The story has a flimsy plot. The characters are shallow. The book lacks any originality, and the main character is just a combination of every other invincible contrived "anti hero". Honestly, this book is absolute garbage.
Child's 1st Reacher outing - Rated
What can I say about Lee Child? I love the mans work, i'm not reading the novels in order as first I read was One Shot which I thought was storming and could not put it down. I own paperbacks killing floor to The hard way and have read One shot, tripwire, persuader & most recently killing floor when I was traveling to Central America last year which funnily enough took me through a stop over in Atlanta so on flight home I could very easily relate and picture the hotel area, the closenest of the climate in the region and more so passing through the airport. All said I've enjoyed this book and all the others as i guess, every guy wants to be a Reacher, I know I would :) He gets the girl, in situations where normal bloke would brick it, Reacher just goes to it, if someone has to be sorted out, or gets in his way, he takes them out... Almost an old western Clint Eastwood style. i hope someday somebody says "Hey, lets make one of these Child novels into a film" I'd go watch it.
cheese - Rated 
I have to admit I only got half way through this book so my review is not of the book as a whole. Unfortunately, I could not force myself to read on further. I am afraid the writing is juvenile: steel, blue eyed hero mashing baddies. Nothing wrong with this I guess but the likes of Stephen Hunter do it far better, read Pale Horse Coming for example.
Latin reader - Rated 
A great read and a great character. BUT surely the author should have contacted a Latin teacher before publishing. "e unum pluribus" means nothing. "e" is a preposition which is followed by the noun in the ablative case; "pluribus" is in the ablative meaning "with more (things)".
The correct translation for the phrase "more out of one" would be "plura ex uno". A small point no doubt, and the correct translation would not have fitted so well into the plot. Have now said my piece and can move on "librum secundum legere".
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