Once in a blue moon, things turn out just right- the new Jack Reacher, the thriller hero we can't get enough of.
Lee Child (Author)
Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was
born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York.
It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is
sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books
consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around
the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the
recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the
2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's
Birthday Honours.
It is tremendously comforting to be in the hands of Child and his
hero - a good man who we know will save the day in the end before
moving on, toothbrush in pocket, "just the clothes on his back. No
particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get
there."
*Observer*
Lee Child is the absolute master of the story of a lone stranger
arriving in town to save the innocent, and this is one of the best
of his series...as always, the violence is ferocious and
fast-moving. Anyone feeling hard done by or facing insuperable odds
will be comforted by this novel, which is also the best
advertisement for the NHS I have ever seen.
*Literary Review*
Forget Marvel - we all know Jack Reacher is the only avenger that
matters...Child has found his mojo again.
*Sun*
There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.
Jack Reacher, the 21st-century knight errant who over 23 books has
proved himself the most reliable excellent basher of bad guys since
[James]Bond...And good work, Lee Child. If you're at all partial to
his revenge fantasies, this is one of the best for a while...your
hands keep turning those pages, drawn in by storytelling that knows
fancy words count for less than clarity and rhythm...It's nonsense.
Yet it's compelling nonsense, a vicarious clearing away of life's
obstacles via a hero who has no moral qualms, no physical or
emotional vulnerability and no interest in what shampoo he
uses.
*The Times*
There is a mythic heft to all this...Resolution will come, and
Reacher will ride out of town once more, taking absolutely nothing
with him. The body count, 24 books in, is into the hundreds...a
fundamental part of the stories' appeal to women[is] their
understated feminism. Reacher respects and likes women...In some
ways, Blue Moon might be read...as female revenge drama...But do
women fancy Jack Reacher?....the real point is that women want to
be him. That's the fantasy: to abandon all responsibilities. To be
physically invincible. To be justifiably fearless.
*Guardian*
An über-thriller in which things turn out just right...it provides
a satisfying climax and leaves you breathless, glad to be alive in
a wicked world.
*Evening Standard*
Drifter hero Jack Reacher on trigger-happy form in an action
adventure which ramps up the violence and body count.
*Sunday Mirror*
Reacher is nigh-invincible here (and certainly smarter than his
thuggish opponents), and the body count is even more prodigious
than in earlier books, which is saying something. Still, it is
dispatched with the author’s customary panache.
*i*
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