Lee Child in general

Lee Child is the author of the Jack Reacher series of novels and if your looking for banal, ridiculous storylines with little or no connection to the outside world than he's your man. The Jack Reacher novels feature a special forces character whose turned into a kind of A teamesque one man fighting regime, he's tall, enigmatic, a man of few words and has a self centred view on the world. Reacher novels are amongst the worst drivel I've ever read and thats saying something after reading Dan Brown and Sam Browne but even those two authors had the fall back position of being inventive and thinking of some kind of conspiracy theory, however, the Reacher novel ...  Read the complete review

If you are looking for a straight forward no thrills piece of action thriller writing then you cannot go far wrong with anyone of Lee Child books especially if your choice is one of the novels featuring Jack Reacher. If however you are looking for long descriptive prose with deep character analysis then move right along because this author is not for you. All the previous novels featuring Reacher have focused on his life as a former US military cop. A hard man who can handle himself. The sort of bloke that you want as a friend and not an enemy. Forced out of the army following a downsizing period he has become a drifter unable to settle in any one place or ...  Read the complete review