Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher)
Book Review: Good As Usual!
Summary: 4 Stars
As mentioned, this was pretty good, but I kept hoping for a little more action. That being said, I still enjoyed, especially the payback. Reacher and company work well together. Hope to see a return by the others in a future novel.Book Review: Bad Luck and Trouble
Summary: 5 Stars
As always fantastic! He is one of the few writers these days that are consistant, every book is the same as the last, only better, keep it upBook Review: Interesting perspective - there is a Jack in "TEAM"
Summary: 4 Stars
Titling the book, "Bad Luck and Trouble" works from a Jack Reacher perspective. Reacher's always got some of the first and lots of the second. This time, Reacher gets to display some skills from his past that Child's readers have never really seen before - his ability to lead, specifically a military team.
As the book opens, there's plenty of ...bad luck and trouble.... for Calvin Franz, who is dumped from a Bell Helicopter down into the desert floor. Scratch Calvin's character. Later, we learn that Calvin was one of 8 of hero Jack Reacher's old military police outfit.
Reacher is author Lee Child's relentless drifter hero, and this is Child's 11th tale of Reacher's life after he leaves a career as a military hero. Reacher is sort of a magnet for violence and trouble as he tours around the United States, essentially homeless, with few possessions, and liking it that way. Before he learns about Calvin, Reacher is leaving Portland, Oregon, on a bus with essentially no plans.
Enter, in a round about way, Frances Neagley, a female loner who was once a member of Reacher's troup, and is today a very successful private intelligence operative. Neagley tells Reacher of Calvin's death, and together they discover that 3 other members of the team are also missing. They reach out and assemble the remaining members of the team to unravel and avenge the murder(s). Southern California becomes a brutal field for them to some government shenanigans and international terrorism.
Here, Reacher relies more on intellect than his penchant and talent for violence and death. There is a lot of tough banter in the book, and the same sly and ironic humor that Child has peppered the series with. Ultimately, the mystery and the action are more than satisfying, and the team disbands... Reacher is now left to go it alone again.
Don't misunderstand, there is plenty of violence in the book, and there are also some situations that make you question Reacher's integrity - a new, and not necessarily welcome surprise to the reader.
Still and all, "Bad Luck and Trouble" is a great installment in the series, gives good new dimension for the hero, and a book that can be read as a stand alone. It's always a possibility that Child will resurrect the troop, or at least one or two of the characters in future offerings as well.
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. Book Review: Nothing To Lose
Summary: 2 Stars
I was very disappointed in "Nothing To Lose". The other Jack Reacher novels were very good. The best of the series "Bad Luck & Trouble".
"Nothing To Lose" did not have the usual suspense, intrigue and even Jack Reacher seemed less interesting!!