Die Trying

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The decision had cost him ten thousand dollars a year in income, but it had bought him back his sanity, and it had bought him undying respect and blind affection from the agents he worked with. The plot is full of holes, the set-up takes a little too long, the bad guy is a composite caricature of every bad guy architype imaginable; all of that is true. But the FBI thinks Jack is one of the kidnappers - and when they close in, the Bureau snipers will be shooting to kill. The floorboards were eighteen inches wide, from back when lumbermen had the pick of any tree they wanted.

She had an accountancy degree from Yale, and a master's from Harvard, and three years on Wall Street on top of all that. The cherry on top of that scene is that Reacher thinks that he wouldn't have any problems taking out the gunman one-handed because apparently he doesn't deem the problem worth dropping the dry cleaning he's holding, but he's worried about stray bullets going into a crowd of people behind him so he decides to play along.If you feel a certain affinity for the lone hero, a man of principle, of unwavering knowledge and assent as to his own actions, than Jack Reacher's your kinda guy. He wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects and wrote/directed The Way of the Gun, one of my favorite movies that almost no one has ever heard of. Reacher and Holly apparently find being forced to pull the tortured remains of a crucified man off a couple of trees and burying him a tremendous turn-on.

A CD into the player, a backward sweep into his gravel driveway, a dab on the brake, a snick of the selector, a nudge on the gas, and the last short drive of his life was under way. Reacher stops to help a young woman with her dry cleaning while she’s limping along with a crutch when he’s caught up in her kidnapping by a trio of not-very-nice fellas with a van. This is told in the third person, which is necessary, as there are times when Reacher isn’t with the kidnap victim, and we need to know what’s happening with her.

Learning that Holly and McGrath are in a relationship, Reacher sadly says goodbye to her and is left to hitchhike down a highway. if I am doing quiet work and can do so, I will listen to my audio versions of this delectable series.

Since I despised the first Jack Reacher novel Killing Floor you may be wondering why I read this second entry in this series. I know this was written pre-9/11 shortly after the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents, but it was also after the Oklahoma City bombing (Which is never mentioned. This was a large room, better than forty feet by twenty, and it was more or less filled by a long polished table flanked by thirty chairs, fifteen on each side. At three minutes past five in the afternoon, McGrath stared at her empty chair and knew there was a problem.She'd thrown him a would-you-mind look and he'd thrown her a no-problem look and scooped up the metal cane. And that's another thing, there were way too many characters who shared the same amount of space and focus, so much so that Jack Reacher himself had almost gotten reduced to a supporting character in his own series! Reacher, of course, is there to provide it, and he and Holly together will have to struggle mightily both to defend Holly's virtue and to prevent the militiamen from accomplishing their objectives. On the way, Reacher learns the woman is an FBI agent named Holly Johnson (although she doesn't tell him she's the daughter of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff nor goddaughter of the President).