Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13) by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13)
Book Review: Hooked from page one
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed Nothing to Lose, Child's previous Reacher book, well enough, even though I had some minor gripes with it, but Gone Tomorrow is a superior piece of work that pretty much gets everything right. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read another Reacher tale so soon after the last, but a quick perusal of the opening chapter - in which Reacher, riding a New York subway car, runs through a checklist for picking out suicide bombers and finds one lone woman setting off every flag - got me hooked, and I never looked back. The books takes off flying from there, with the plot taking in a senator with a military past, an old Ukrainian woman and her daughter, and a MacGuffin that drives it all (although the actual reveal of the MacGuffin is pretty satisfying and intriguing). This is one of Reacher's less action-driven books; though there are fights to be had, especially in the great climax, this one's more about reasoning out some threads and pulling at what doesn't fit. It's a lot of fun, and a nice rebound from some of the weaknesses of Nothing to Lose.Book Review: Another terrific Reacher adventure
Summary: 5 Stars
"Gone Tomorrow" hooks the reader on the first page when Reacher, the quintessential loner American hero, finds himself on a New York subway late at night with another passenger who meets all the criteria for being a suicide bomber. What to do? Intervene, and perhaps make it worse? Ignore the warning signals? What if Reacher is wrong? Of course, Reacher gets involved.
And then things really get exciting. Reacher finds himself in the middle of a maze of lies, told by everyone from the victim's family, to the local cops, to a Senate candidate. And if he can't find the truth, he'll surely be killed.
"Gone Tomorrow" gives us Reacher at his very best - impeccably logical, always ready to dish out mayhem, and completely unstoppable.
It's also Lee Child at his best - tension that mounts from the first to the last page, tightly would plotting, and lean, elegant prose.
Definitely a book not to be missed.
Book Review: A real page-turner!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVE Jack Reacher, and this book is a good one! It is 13 in the series. In this book, we find Reacher in New York City. What a great city for a setting for a thriller! Jack knows New York City, and he knows the underground subway and the book is set around the subway a lot. It is set right in the streets of New York. This is a gritty, realistic thriller that has more twists and turns than a knotted string. Reacher finds himself up against some real terrorists who do not value human life at all. He also is at odds with the New York cops and the feds. (So it's just another week for Reacher!) This book grabbed my attention from the beginning, and I didn't want to put it down. Reacher is at the top of his game here, and we see his lightning fast reflexes, and his intuitiveness when he keeps outthinking his enemies. I can't stress enough how much I look forward to a new book in this series every year, and am anxiously awaiting number 14Book Review: Reacher's Back!
Summary: 5 Stars
Gone Tomorrow is exactly what Child fans needed after last year's disappointing Nothing to Lose. This is Reacher at his best -- first-person perspective, tight plot and another impossible situation only Reacher can handle.
I've been a big fan since Killing Floor, and I've read all but this and Nothing to Lose twice. Child is without a doubt the most exciting storyteller working in the thriller genre, and he always hooks me. Gone Tomorrow grabbed me in paragraph one and didn't let go until the final page-turn.
The only negative thing I could say is I might have liked a little more introspection on Reacher's part. With first-person perspective we're inside his head, so it would have been great to get an update on some of the personal issues he faced in Bad Luck and Trouble, for example. Maybe next year?
Book Review: loved this Novel and Approach
Summary: 5 Stars
This yarn started out with a very intense scene on the subway in NYC. It was detail but there was a purpose for the detail. Several people wrote that the detail about a suicide bomber was boring and the detail about who was in the subway car was unnecessary. However, seasoned readers of Child, like myself, understand why he is detail, Yes, he has made an occasional mistake - I don't know of a SIG 9mm, mine is 45 cal- but it is fiction. When he mentioned the passengers in detail, they all entered into the story later.
Jack is detail and it took him several pages to get the story going, it kept you turning pages. Jack has great reasoning skills. The action sequences were great and the violence detail impacted.
This is a good novel. Finished it in two readings. Notice: You cannot skim his novels.