Reacher makes this calculation and then follows the woman into the car and is taken along for the ride. He died much later, after the split second of bravery had faded into long hours of wretched gasping fear, and after the long hours of fear had exploded into long minutes of insane screaming panic. Still, rather than simply shooting him on the spot, thus eliminating any threat he might represent, they throw him into the van and drive him to Montana with Holly. Reacher stops to help a young woman with her dry cleaning while she’s limping along with a crutch when he’s caught up in her kidnapping by a trio of not-very-nice fellas with a van.

The driver had a big shiny brow, thinning hair swept back, pink and vivid features, the smirk that pig-ugly guys use when they think they're handsome. Trade Paperback in Very Good+ condition, tightly bound and unmarked with some wear to the cover edges and corners. She is one of the strongest female characters to appear in this series, but with her bum knee, which she injured in a soccer game, she could use a little help.Thus, the author goes into a great deal of detail about weapons and the speed of bullets and so on, which is interesting to a degree, but normally goes over my head and I tend to tune out during those paragraphs. Unfortunately, there are a number of innocent bystanders who might be hurt if the kidnappers manage to get off any shots. Here the plot is rather weak and as always there's a certain implausibility about Reacher altogether. Security footage leaves Reacher as the prime suspect, and his mentor, General Leon Garber, is brought in to help, though he insists Reacher would never do such a thing. Plenty of action, some of it suspend-disbelief-worthy, I have to say, a little bit of character background, mostly Reacher’s, and more lessons than I cared for in weaponry and which handgun suits which kind of hand and which rifle shoots how far or obliterates how much.

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. And maybe some kind of sure knowledge there'll be a bunch of people looking to get you back soon as they can. The lightest shot might have 50, but we have 'hundreds of small holes' in the roof of a van after being shot at from 10'-15' with no big center hole.He wrote the screenplay for The Usual Suspects and wrote/directed The Way of the Gun, one of my favorite movies that almost no one has ever heard of.

The room was following an unconventional design, specified by a thorough man after a great deal of careful thought. On the way, Reacher learns the woman is an FBI agent named Holly Johnson, though she doesn't tell him she's the daughter of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and goddaughter of the President, having been accused of being the beneficiary of nepotism all her life. He even managed to shoe horn a reference to Aston Villa in this one, reflecting his Brummie roots, but it wasn't enough to redeem what I think must have been one of his very first attempts at getting published, rejected until he hit one out the park with The Killing Floor.Ex-military MP drifter Jack Reacher gets into trouble again and fights, kicks, breaks and shoots his way out. I enjoyed this a little less than book one ( Killing Floor) in terms of plot, but that's mostly due to the fact that the whole dangerous militia group thing annoys the shit out of me as a rule.