![]() The villains' comeuppance, a riveting eye-for-an-eye battle scene (hint: helicopter), is one of Child's more satisfying finales. Now one of them has shown up dead in the California desert and six more are missing. The author carefully delineates Reacher's erstwhile colleagues, their smart-ass banter masking an unspoken affection. In the past the elite team always watched each others backs. ![]() As usual in Reacher's capers, practically nothing is what it seems, and the meticulously detailed route to the truth proves especially engrossing thanks to the joint efforts of this band of brothers (and two sisters). You do not mess with the Special Investigators The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reachers drifter life in a practical way. More members of the band get back together, only to discover that Franz isn't the group's only casualty. A former colleague sends Reacher a coded SOS the two rendezvous in L.A. ![]() ![]() ), the bad guys unceremoniously dump Calvin Franz, a former MP, from a Bell 222 helicopter "hree thousand feet above the desert floor." Trouble is, Franz was a member of the army's special investigation unit headed by Reacher-a one-time military cop who left the service to become a solitary drifter par excellence. ![]() At the start of bestseller Child's winning 11th Jack Reacher adventure (after The Hard Way ![]()
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