No Plan B: A Jack Reacher Novel
Book by Lee Child
DETAILS
Publisher : Delacorte Press (October 25, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 368 pages ISBN-10 : 1984818546 ISBN-13 : 978-1984818546 Item Weight : 1.24 pounds Dimensions : 6.2 x 1.19 x 9.3 inches Best Sellers Rank: #268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #5 in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction #15 in Murder Thrillers #45 in Suspense Thrillers , NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child “ No Plan B is not to be missed. A perfectly plotted, fast-paced thriller, with bigger twists than ever before. It’s no wonder Jack Reacher is everyone’s favorite rebel hero.”—Karin Slaughter In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. The death is ruled a suicide. But Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. When another homicide is ruled an accident, Reacher knows this is no coincidence. With a killer on the loose, Reacher has no time to waste to track down those responsible. But Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. There is no room for error, but they make a grave one. They don’t consider Reacher a threat. “There’s too much at stake to start running from shadows.” But Reacher isn’t a shadow. He is flesh and blood. And relentless when it comes to making things right. For when the threat is Reacher, there is No Plan B. Read more
REVIEW
The new Jack Reacher novel has a more complicated (and, in a way, less complicated) set of plot arcs. Jack is in a small town in Colorado where he witnesses a woman being thrown under a bus, literally. He sees documents in her purse that pertain to an event at a prison in Mississippi several days hence. Meanwhile, a young man in Los Angeles is leaving his foster home to travel to that prison in Mississippi, while back in the Midwest an angry, grieving father is wreacking vengeance on a chain of individuals he holds responsible for the death of his son. We figure that all of these events are related, but we don’t know how or why. Since the baddies back at the prison are aware that Jack and a Colorado woman are heading their way the multi-faceted plot comes down to two simple questions: will the baddies stop Jack (of course not) and what is going on at that for-profit prison? Since we know that something illegal is going on we can guess at the possibilities. The characters are all what E.M. Forster called “flat” rather than “rounded” and the conclusion is forgone, so the principal joy in reading is to watch Jack kick behinds and take names (and figure out situations faster than we, or the other characters, can). Hence the bottom line: a standard JR outing, done with skill, that sustains interest. In other words: an airplane read. Is the whole series growing a little stale? Perhaps. The word on the street is that Jim Grant’s brother Andrew (compelled to change his name to the pseudonymous ‘Child’) is now writing the books while Jim/Lee concentrates on the solid new TV series. Does it really make much difference if that is the case? Not really. The only question that I find haunting is why in the wide, wide world of sports is Jim’s face so distorted on the book jacket? 4 stars. And since the books are now all pretty much the same, it doesn’t matter whether you read them in order or not. You can also wait and buy inexpensive used copies from Amazon’s bookselling partners.
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