Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, No. 11) by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, No. 11)
Book Review: Chicks Like Action Books Too
Summary: 5 Stars
As you'll begin to see by the books I review here, I have very eclectic taste in books. Some might think the Reacher books by Lee Child are more suited to a male audience, but, hey, this is the era of the kickass girl.
As a woman who took karate in Okinawa (decades ago before that was a common thing) with an Army tank of a sensei, I like to think I fit the kickass paradigm. I wholeheartedly enjoy these books so read on. You may find you enjoy them too.
If you've ever watched The Unit starring Dennis Haysbert then it's not a great stretch to imagine if The Unit personnel retired and wrote books, the books would be pretty much like a Jack Reacher novel.
In Bad Luck and Trouble, members of Reacher's Special Investigators are being killed. The other members ride to the rescue. Reacher and his former team members, notably Frances Neagley whose picture probably resides next to the word kickass in the dictionary, set about making things right and making those responsible pay.
I won't give away any spoilers because it really is a neat action book, but with surprisingly mild language from these characters. The action melds well with a mathematical savant element of Reacher's personality. Plus, Lee Child actually writes a good love scene for a male author. Kudos to Mr. Child.
All in all, it's like a very good read with buddy humor, good characters, nice suspense, a little shocking violence, and a really good, smart payback.
The book made the rounds of my family. Read it, and you too will be waiting for the next Jack Reacher novel from Lee Child.
Book Review: Reacher follows in the literary Rambo's footsteps
Summary: 5 Stars
Fans of David Morrell, Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), and F. Paul Wilson's brawny thrillers will love Lee Child's laconic loner hero. Featured in ten previous novels, Jack Reacher is a shiftless vagabond who owns nothing and lives nowhere and everywhere. A former military policeman and Army special investigator, he is also a knight-errant of sorts, using his experience, large body, and suppressed violent disposition to right wrongs for people who can't. Like a masterless ronin, he's not "in the system," using the names of obscure baseball players as aliases. But in this newest novel, Child throws Reacher a curve, reuniting him with a group of tightly-knit "special investigators" gathered to find out what happened to their four missing and murdered comrades - and to make someone pay. Reacher's loner personality is tested when he must fit into a team system once again. Watching this quiet, dangerous giant of a man interact with fellow ex-soldiers is almost as interesting as watching the elite unit follow nebulous clues to uncover the reason one of their own was tortured and tossed out of a helicopter. Once hooked, chances are you'll go back for those previous Reacher books featuring this engaging modern judge, jury, and sometime executioner.Book Review: Fantastic
Summary: 5 Stars
Bad Luck & Trouble was the third Jack Reacher book that I have read from Lee Child. Like the other two (One Shot and the Hard Way), Child grabbed my attention in the first few pages, in this case when an unknown man is unceremoniously thrown to his death from a helicopter at 3,00 feet. Enter Jack Reacher and his former colleagues as they untangle the mystery and extract retribution. Reacher's physical and mental toughness, tenacity, perseverance, ruthlessness and survival instincts are on display throughout the book, leading to a very compelling story. Simply put, start to finish, this is a great novel that is impossible to put down. While admittedly, these works are only a sampling of the full body of work, Child has quickly worked his way onto my "must read" list. I definitely need to go back for more.Book Review: Read Them All, and This Was My Favorite
Summary: 5 Stars
It's odd. First, we have a truly incredible superhero or super antihero, who thinks detailed actions in milliseconds. Then we have a few technical glitches. Jack Reacher, this super-antihero, does everything but leap tall buildings in a single bound, but then there's always that possibility in the nest Jack Reacher novel. And with all that, it was a real page turner, so much so that I finished it on a red-eye while everyone else was fast asleep.
So, if you can suspend a little disbelief (as opposed to a lot of disbelief in the one where Reacher swims underwater 300 yards in full battle gear off the coast of Maine in the winter), this may be the best of Child's novels. It's almost as good as the best Saunders and Sanders books. Four-and-a-half stars.
Book Review: Can't Resist Reacher
Summary: 5 Stars
Lee Child's Jack Reacher is SO unreal, so much of a caricature, that only a moron would enjoy reading about him, right? Wrong. There's something irrestible about Jack Reacher -- maybe it's the machismo so pathetically absent in much of our society. The Reacher books are not terribly nuanced -- it's pretty black and white. The bad guys are terrible; the good guys, pretty good. So, you read Lee Child just to escape for a while into a world where the good guys win, instead of losing, as the media tends to portray things. But, they tell me that in his latest book, "Nothing to Lose" Child goes off the deep end and gets political. That would be a pity. He'll lose me as a reader if that's the case. I read Child for escape, not indoctrination.