Deep Down (Jack Reacher, #16.5)
An original short story about Jack Reacher, available exclusively as an ebook, following the success of last year's Second Son.Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover which one of four women, all staff officers on fast track careers, is leaking...
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An original short story about Jack Reacher, available exclusively as an ebook, following the success of last year's Second Son.Early in his military career, Jack Reacher is ordered undercover in Washington, to discover which one of four women, all staff officers on fast track careers, is leaking secrets. The suggested method: get close to each in turn.The obvious problem: the most receptive will be the guilty one, with an agenda of her own ... to kill the investigation - and the investigator.‘Child has somehow forged that magical grail: a new and believable hero... when we thought all the heroes had been written.’ Observer
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781448153879 (1448153875)
Publish date: July 2012
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Pages no: 52
Edition language: English
Ahh, this is more like it -- I was afraid that I was going to have to give up on these shorts to preserve my appreciation for the novels. But Lee Child and Dick Hill pulled it off. Its the mid-80s, Reacher's a Captain in the Army and is called to Washington to go undercover as an Army sniper. Some...
Book 16.5 in the Jack Reacher seriesI am not a big fan of short stories but from time to time I do make room for them in my library. To come out with filler books a few months before a major release is today’s trend for crime writers, Mr. Child has taken advantage of this and has sent a few our ways...
Hard core Reacher fans will enjoy this, but overall it struck me more as a pastiche of clipped scenes from another novel put together as a story. The dialog is good, Reacher is always fun to watch in action, but the plot itself just doesn't hold together as well as one would like.
I was really pleased when I got this book approved through Net Galley because I have read quite a few of the Lee Child Novels before and I absolutely love Jack Reacher. However, this was my first experience with a Jack Reacher Short Story.In this short story, Jack Reacher goes undercover in the Capi...
8 years ago
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