Suffice it to say that the book is action-packed with a lot of interesting characters. Reacher himself is in top form and it's a lot of fun watching him reason his way through the puzzle that's been presented him. It's even more fun to then watch him periodically kick the crap out of some truly bad guys who really deserve it.
Fans of the series will not want to miss this one, and people looking to try the series would do well to begin here. Ahmad Sharabiani. The book title is based on "One shot, one kill," the military sniper's creed. The novel was adapted into the film Jack Reacher, starring Tom Cruise as the title character. This book is written in the third person.
In a small Indiana city, a lone gunman in a parking garage calmly fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter leaves a perfect trail behind for the police to quickly track him down.
Evidence from the scene, of a shell case and a quarter bearing the same fingerprints, points clearly to James Barr, a former Army infantry sniper. He is arrested, but will only say two things to the police: "They got the wrong guy," and "Get Jack Reacher for me.
Reacher has no job, no home, no car, and a shrinking savings account from his past military pay. Although Reacher has a nomadic existence, what he does have is sharp moral clarity. A sniper guns down five people. The evidence against him is overwhelming. When questioned by the police he declares bluntly that they have the wrong man.
Then he says, "Get Reacher. Reacher, however, is on the way already? Because, the sniper committed the same type of crime during the Persian Gulf War and got away with it-- under Reacher's watch. Now Reacher wants nothing more than to assist with the prosecution of this man.
However, something catches his eye and the whole case begins to stink. Reacher jumps in and does his stuff. If you've read any of the other novels in this series you know that his stuff includes busting heads, killing bad guys, and analyzing the heck out of every situation.
This is one of the best of the series I have read and kept me up late to finish. My eyelids got heavy, but I literally could not put it down until I finished it. Good mystery-crime novel with lots of fast-paced action and even a bit of romance. If you are a Jack Reacher fan, I'm sure you will enjoy this entertaining book. I'm going to add the same review for all of the Reacher series, so if you've read this one, you've read 'em all.
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. Lee Child has created an unforgettable and unique character in his creation of Jack Reacher. Reacher denies. He embraces it. Understands his philosophy implicitly, revels in his physical being,his conventions and values.
He defends those he loves, those he does allow into his world, with a loyalty bar none while never letting go of the notion that he is alone and being perfectly comfortable with that. I read one, and within two months read all 15 books with an appetite that couldn't get enough. Enough said, HR. Number 9 in the Jack Reacher Series. This story starts out of the blocks on page one and just keeps going. There is what appears to be and random act of violence.
A sniper fires 6 bullets and kills 5 people. In a novel that slams through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child unleashes a thriller that spans three decades and gnaws at the heart of America Thumbing across the scorched West Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go and all the time in the world to get there.
Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty Carmen Greer. But for Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen's got a story to tell, and it's a wild one. All about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic. She's also got a plan. Jack Reacher's part of it. And before the sun sets, this ride could cost them both their lives. Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home.
Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. Across the country women are being murdered by a killer who leaves no evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to a motive.
They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, the only thing that links the victims is the man they all knew: Jack Reacher. Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base.
But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover - to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control. Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice - and an appetite for secrets.
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning.
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified.
Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia.
All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. Jack Reacher. 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. Not always. Not completely," notes Jack Reacher - and sure enough, the retired military cop is soon pulled back into service. Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light.
The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott - an American marksman gone bad - is one of them Reacher's anonymity in Florida is shattered by an investigator who's come looking for him.
But hours after his arrival, the stranger is murdered. Retracing the PI's trail back to New York, Reacher's compelled to find out who was looking for him and why. He never expects the reasons to be so personal - and twisted.
But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in 1, square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He's kidnapped with her. Chained together and racing across America toward an unknown destination, they're at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom.
Because Reacher's female companion is worth more than he imagines. Now he has to save them both - from the inside out - or die trying It's , and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid.
Out of sight, out of mind. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.
Then they find out: A jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor - a Saudi courier seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Version 2. Clip Featurette Lee Child. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Tom Cruise Reacher as Reacher.
Rosamund Pike Helen as Helen. Richard Jenkins Rodin as Rodin. David Oyelowo Emerson as Emerson. Jai Courtney Charlie as Charlie. Vladimir Sizov Vlad as Vlad.
Joseph Sikora Barr as Barr. Michael Raymond-James Linsky as Linsky. Alexia Fast Sandy as Sandy. Josh Helman Jeb as Jeb. Robert Duvall Cash as Cash. Dylan Kussman Gary as Gary. Denver Milord Punk as Punk. Christopher McQuarrie.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In an innocent heartland city, five are shot dead by an expert sniper. The police quickly identify and arrest the culprit, and build a slam-dunk case.
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