Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child

At the moment, when not playing internet poker, I find that I'm reading more and more and always eager to pick up books by many authors - one of which is Lee Child - so when I picked this off the shelf of the local library I was eager to catch up on the exploits of Jack reacher and his manly charm. Following the strange appearance of $1030 in his bank account Jack contacts an old army colleague (ten-thirty being the call sign used when a military policeman needs assistance) and discovers that Calvin Franz, a member of the team he fronted, has been murdered. The motto 'You DO NOT mess with the Special Investigators' has never been more pertinent and Jack ...  Read the complete review

As with many people I find that at weekends my nightshifts suffer from a lack of things to do, so it is recommended (by the manager no less) that staff take books or dvd's to fill the time, on Saturday night it was this that I took with me. It was borrowed from a library at the office in which my Dad works for him to take on holiday of course this meant that I completed it and told him all about it in the car at 4am this morning while I taxied him to the airport. As this is a Lee Child book it of course features his hero Jack Reacher the former US Military Policeman who now lives a nomadic life owning nothing but the clothes he wears and his ...  Read the complete review

I'm a fan of Lee Child's Jack Reacher books and have read several. Recently I saw Bad Luck and Trouble selling on ebay for a few pence and realised it was one I'd missed. It can also be purchased new from Amazon for £3.50. Jack Reacher is ex Military Police, a huge guy who can handle himself but since leaving the army he has wandered around with no particular purpose. He just stays a couple of days in each town and these books usually find him caught up in a situation that he helps with before he moves on. Naturally there is always a woman involved too but his flings do seem credible because they don't turn into relationships and as he's not in the same ...  Read the complete review

Jack Reacher is one hell of a character. Ex-Military Police he now roams the United States as a mash up of 'The Littlest Hobo', 'Highway to Heaven' and 'The A Team'. He is the type of man that would take a Bic pen and pop a football. He would cut open a tennis ball just to see it bleed. I would not put it past him to go into a mystic's shop and destroy all their crystal balls. This is because Reacher is a ball buster. He busts balls for amusement. If you can get into the mindset of this character when reading one of these books you are in for a fun ride. If you don't, you may find yourself reading one of the most ridiculous things you have ever come ...  Read the complete review

---02-11-2008--- Things that have bugged the crap out of me this week: Work. Lack of internet (which I'm told will now be for about another month). My bank talking to me like I am an idiot. Things that have made me a happy person this week: Pay day. Halloween. Bleached hair and crazy colours coming in the post. My fabulously comfortable new house coat and giant ape head slippers (thank you Debenhams blue cross sale). Boxers baggy enough to allow me to be wearing the aforementioned slippers while I put them on. Kisses from a cute guy. Books. You may have noticed, there are considerably more things under the happy column! Lets see ...  Read the complete review