Die Trying - Lee Child

Not quite my favourite thriller but pretty damn near the top of the list, “Die Trying” starts off with Reacher, an ex-army MP Major, continuing his wander around the US getting to know his own country after spending nearly all his life staying in Army Bases. Reacher is a tough looking man, taller than average and full of battle scars – not the type you would want to meet in a dark alley after dark. He knows how to defend himself and I would say is a tad better than average at doing so! He is visiting Chicago and whilst walking round a corner he spots a woman in need of a helping hand – she is struggling out of the drycleaners with a ...

This is the second book in the Jack Reacher series. I picked it up after reading the Visitor and I think it is probably a better read which is no mean feat. Again the book can be read with no prior knowledge of Jack Reacher. I felt that I gained a little by having read another book but there is no way that you have to read these books sequentially. This time Reacher stumbles on a kidnapping and ends up getting taken as an additional hostage. He soon realises that his fellow hostage may be more valuable than he first thought and he begins to uncover the bigger picture. In his favour is the fact that his captors think he is an average club bouncer/doorman ...

The good run of books from Lee Child continues. This is the second Jack Reacher novel and continues the theme from the last book, i.e. Jack is minding his own business and ends up in deep mire, because he is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Casically, it tells the story of how a bump into a woman on a city street turns into a kidnap nightmare for Jack, and the woman he bumps into. She turns out to be an FBI agent, on crutches, but expects to take charge, thinking Jack is a defenseless civilian, but doesn't know who Jack is, or what he can do. Eventually, after a road trip in the back of a vehicle, they meet their captors, who turn out ...