Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher) by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher)
Book Review: Bad Luck and Trouble
Summary: 5 Stars
Looking forward to Jack Reacher making the big screen. Lee Child is one of my favorite authors (2nd only to Nelson DeMille). His detail for technical accuracy rivals Tom Clancy. If you admire tough, do-it-yourselfers then this is your author. Nobldy messes with the Special Investigators.
Cheers! Mark
Book Review: Bad Luck and Trouble
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent book as are all of his. Can't wait for the next one. I've read all of his books and I love every single one of them.Book Review: Bad Luck that I bought this book
Summary: 1 Stars
Bad Luck and Trouble was my introduction to the Jack Reacher thrillers and it may be unfortunate, based on some other reviewers assertions that this title is unlike Lee Child's earlier Reacher novels. Regrettable, if true, but I have no intention of wasting time or money to find out.
This book is a hopelessly contrived novel about a group of self-important, arrogant, and self congratulatory characters who supposedly were the best "special investigators" in the Military Police Corps. However, after plodding along through half the book, it became painfully obvious to me that Lee Childs knows nothing about the military or those who serve in it. He knows nothing about investigative techniques, nothing about firearms, nothing about police firearms training, nothing about surface to air missiles, nothing about the Patriot Act, nothing about terrorists, and nothing about defense contracts or weapons system procurement.
Evidently the only research this pathetically Liberal author was willing to do was give the reader details about Los Angeles traffic conditions, geography and worthless statistics about Las Vegas.
Much has been made about the nomadic lifestyle of the main character, Jack Reacher. As if that, and his folding toothbrush, make him notable. Actually, the character seems quite derivative of the Travis Magee character from John D. MacDonald's novels, except Magee was much more likable and much less arrogant. Which, of course means he wouldn't be marketable in the 21st century.
After having read about 70% of this book I shuddered with disgust and closed it for the last time, completely willing to not know how it ends. But I do know this, it will take a lot more than a folding toothbrush to get the bad taste of Jack Reacher and Lee Child out of my mouth.
Book Review: Not one of Reachers bes
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok. This was a fairly decent book, which is why im giving it four stars. But compared to the rest of the Jack Reacher novels, this book is a joke. Most of Lee Childs Reacher Novels keep you guessing at the flip of every page, and the clues and hints are always changing. You are always guessing something else until you know it. I didn't feel that with this book, I was pretty much in the dark the entire time, stepping my way to the only conclusion. Then within one page, and im not exaggerating, within one page I knew the entire story. It was a decent book overall, but like I said it wasn't one of Lee Childs best books. Book Review: Bad Luck and Trouble
Summary: 5 Stars
Jack Reacher is allmost invisible, when someone deposites money in his bank account. Reacher relises its a disstress code, and soon Reacher is off. One of the Special Investigators has been killed, and now Reacher is going to work with a team, and kill every one who went against them.