“Make Me” presents a huge one, but it takes its sweet time in revealing what, exactly, is underfoot in the vaguely sinister hick town that tempts Reacher. Child does his best work when he ventures into gutsy new challenges, and “Personal” didn’t present any. So was “Never Go Back” two years ago, but the tepid “Personal” (2014) came between them. Child, whose cerebral tough-guy thrillers all follow the same basic rules, is just one more genre type repeating himself in a mechanical way. Everything about it, starting with Reacher’s nose for bad news, is as strong as ever.īear that in mind next time someone tells you that Mr. ![]() The question is, what are you going to do about it?”). ![]() 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee (“Are you going to be a problem?” “I’m already a problem. ![]() Lee Child’s Reacher series has hit Book No. He appears to have gotten off a train in the middle of wheat country, for no better reasons than he liked the cryptic name of the town, Mother’s Rest, and that he’s got foolproof instincts for sniffing out trouble. ![]() “Grain, meet the railroad” Jack Reacher tells himself, after he’s picked the latest sinister little Nowheresville in which to spend a book’s length of time.
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