The Enemy (Jack Reacher, No. 8)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-04-26
ISBN: 0440241014
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of The Enemy (Jack Reacher, No. 8)
Book Review: Young Jack Reacher and the Case of the Dead General
Summary: 5 Stars
I first started reading Lee Child with Persuader, the seventh book in his Jack Reacher series. It was good...really good, and I started picking up the series from the beginning. The eighth volume, The Enemy, was therefore a double treat: not only was it was the first book to be written after Persuader, it was also the first one that looked at Reacher's past as a Military Policeman in the U.S. Army. And as anticipated, this book was as much of a pleasure to read as all the others.
The story opens with the discovery of a general's body in the wee hours of New Year's Day, 1990. The general died naturally enough of a heart attack, but in a compromising position: in a sleazy hotel room hundreds of miles from where he should have been. Due to the rank of the dead man, Reacher is called in to oversee the investigation and to cover up any embarrassments. This would be okay if not for two things: the general's wife is found murdered later the same day and Reacher finds that there is a key missing document: a meeting agenda that those in the know say doesn't exist, but Reacher believes does (after all, no military meeting can be conducted without an agenda).
With more deaths, Reacher's problems get worse, especially when he gets a new superior who wants to cover up the crime and is willing to use extortion to make Reacher comply. Reacher doesn't react well to such threats, however, and he digs in more, risking his career and maybe his freedom or even his life. The investigation will take him to Europe and back.
A nice thing about this book is that we get to see a Reacher who is distinctly the character who we've read about in other books but also a bit different. In this story, Reacher is a little more naïve, making mistakes here and there. He is also in denial about the end of the Cold War and his role in it. They will always need MPs, he thinks, but readers of the other books know he will soon be out as the military reduces its force. In addition, we finally get to see Reacher's brother Joe (who died at the beginning of the first book, Killing Floor); the two of them will deal with their dying mother, an event that will also try the usually cool Reacher.
As stated before, this is another great book by Child. If you've read other books by him, you'll know that he delivers a top-notch story consistently. If not, this book is as good a place to start as any, as continuity is not hugely important. The Enemy is five-star fare.
Summary of The Enemy (Jack Reacher, No. 8)
Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier?s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army?s brightest stars. But in every cop?s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.New Year?s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina ?hot-sheets? motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can?t be controlled. Within hours the general?s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiers?the toughest of the tough?are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher?an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit?is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.
But Reacher won?t quit. He?s fighting a new kind of war. And he?s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn?t know he had. With his French-born mother dying?and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret?Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed?about his family, his career, his loyalties?and himself. Because this soldier?s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death?and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
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