Review - Jack Reacher 9

One Shot by Lee Child

Plot:

A Gulf War vet goes postal worker and kills five people from a parking garage. The evidence he leaves behind is overwhelming, but when he is arrested he protests his innocence. He asks for Jack Reacher, but Reacher's now a drifter and they can't find him.

Good things:

Reading the bad guy instructing his minions to put the scare on Reacher, and thinking, Boy, you're about to get your ass handed you.

Well-paced, somewhat addictive prose.

After a couple of misfires mid-series Child appears to have gotten back on form.

Bad things:

Guessing what was going on fairly early on and not being far wrong. I had the what, but didn't quite have the why sorted.

Ends rather abruptly; 'Then Reacher left. The End.'

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50 book challenge 2006:

1 - 10
11 = The Dresden Files: 1. Storm Front by Jim Butcher [review]
12 = The Malazan Book of the Fallen: 4. House of Chains by Steven Erikson [review]
13 = The Darkwar: 1. Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist [review]
14 = Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman [review]
15 = One Shot by Lee Child

Next = The Malazan Book of the Fallen: 5. Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson