Blue Moon (Jack Reacher)
Blue Moon – Lee Child
No offense, but in previous press/web material, “Lee Child” claimed he started a new Jack Reacher novel with a blank. No direction, no plot, no outline, just a character, and see where it goes.
Not sure I believe that. Just prior to the latest installment? A very highbrow feminist litany critic discussed how Jack Reacher was a “not so” secret vice. Something to enjoy, without a lot of questions.
That I would agree with.
Fast moving, nuanced, delicate yet packing a punch. Halfway through? Surely the sentiment is that this doesn’t end well.
And, it doesn’t, but not without some rather touch-and-go situations.
- “Hope for the best, plan for the worst.”
As a sidebar note, the local library had an omnibus version of the earlier “Jack Reacher” works, and it was fun to sail through a few of those. There was a level of violence in the earlier books that I didn’t remember in later tomes. That level of violence is easily matched, perhaps bested, with the body count towards the stunning conclusion of Blue Moon.
