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Interspersed with the early portions of this story are snippets of two different individuals heading toward the center of D.C. -- it's not immediately clear what's going on with either of them, but you get plenty of opportunities to guess. They do a decent job of increasing the tension, though.
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Top secret schematics for a brand new sniper rifle are being sold to a foreign competitor, at least that’s what army intelligence thinks and they want it to stop. Then again. we see Reacher, a teen this time, a 16 y/o kid, wandering around New York City in the late 70's when the so-called organized crime like the Italian mob was still ruling the streets, and guess what, our kid, our 16 y/o Reacher, not only that he's fooling a co-ed 19 y/o beautiful young girl to go out with him and give him the time of his life, but at the very same time, he's helping a female FBI agent in her quest to bring down a made man of the Italian mob ruling the streets, where in fact our Reacher is the key in defeating this made man... Somewhat entertaining but it’s hard to build suspense in a mystery/detective novel in an hour of listening time. Plus some of the things he does as a kid in the second book were a little ridiculous. Also making him be the crucial tip in finding son of Sam is also a little beyond belief.Sanderson, Mark (11 May 2017). "No Middle Name by Lee Child - review". Evening Standard . Retrieved 4 March 2020. Reacher fans will want to read this just because it's Reacher. Anyone who has not read a Lee Child Reacher novel should not waste their money on this. A] feverishly thrilling series . . . With Child, you can always count on furious action.” —The Miami Herald
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Well, in my case I am a bit conflicted about this author, about Lee Child, in the sense I really wanted to like him. I am not entirely sure why I want to like him, maybe because he's European in origin living for a long time in the US, like me, maybe because he's writing about events and places happening in the US, maybe because he's looking at the US culture and traditions through the eyes of a European native and translates what most Americans don't really see or feel, maybe because he has the support of the great Steven King and few others in the same league, or maybe because he's writing action, suspense and thriller books that supposedly are a recipe for success, or who knows for what reason, but I really wanted to like him. But I can't, there is something wrong in his books and I'll try to explain it to the best of my abilities as a simple reader. What is wrong in all this picture, in all those books, is the fact this guy is like a Superman, not just a super-hero, but in a very exaggerated way a Superman type of hero, no matter of other conditions, no matter his age, no matter of the environment, no matter what, this guy is the best in everything, is invincible, with no weakness and with plenty of qualities and traits. He is pretty good at deduction. He met with three out of the four suspects. All women. After talking and listening to the women talk. He is able to know which one of them is the right one. FaceOff (June 2014) Lee and Joseph Finder co-wrote the story “Good and Valuable Consideration” which pairs Reacher with Finder’s Heller. Moving to a new place is always hard and Okinawa is no exception. Reacher must prove himself to the neighborhood bully, he meets a girl and he solves two mysteries.Thriller (2006) Contains an edited version of “James Penney’s New Identity” originally published in Fresh Blood 3. It's a hearing before a procurement committee on the Hill, and there's a suspicion that one of the liaison officers is selling the design to a foreign manufacturer.
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I reread it because I wanted to see if the second time would improve my opinion of it...it didn't, but it is still a good story. Under suspicion are four young senior ranked female officers one of which is believed to be the culprit. But which one? Admittedly I probably love it because I already know (and love) Reacher and his stories are somewhat familiar so obviously he will outsmart everyone and win the day! That's not really a spoiler is it??! It encompasses everything I love about Reacher - his cool assessment of people, his methodical and logical reactions to danger and his quiet humour. A] feverishly thrilling series . . . With Child, you can always count on furious action." —The Miami HeraldIts the mid-80s, Reacher's a Captain in the Army and is called to Washington to go undercover as an Army sniper. Someone is leaking information from a Congressional investigation into whether the Army and Marines need a new, super-cutting-edge sniper rifle. The Army's got it narrowed down to 4 suspects, they want him to narrow it down. Reacher is repeatedly assured that this will just be talking and that there is "no danger." So, yeah, things are going to get dicey.
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The Christmas Scorpion (December 2017) The Mail on Sunday’s two-part story features Reacher. Republished as a Transworld UK and Delacorte US ebook in October 2018. Lee Child develops another novella, short story. Being a short story it is easy to follow the characters. What can I say, it's a Reacher...and he figures it out so easily while I'm sitting here totally stupid. I liked how Child informed us of Reacher's character with his mouthing off to Christopher, his observational skills in figuring out what Christopher's hand movements mean. Without being an info dump, it tells us that Reacher is very good at his job. James Penney’s New Identity / Guy Walks Into A Bar (Nov 2011) available as a digital single in the UK and territories.Deep Down is set during the 1980s. Reacher is asked to investigate a potential leak of military secrets to the Soviet Union via fax machine from the U.S. Capitol building. The potential leakers are a set of officers working in a committee to flash out the characteristics needed in a new sniper rifle should the Congress decide to fund the creation of a new sniper rifle and buy it. Reacher is added to the committee as part of an undercover operation to figure out who the bad guy is. This includes 3 novellas: Deep Down (#16.5) is a story from early in Reacher's military career; Second Son (#15.5) is a story from his early teens; High Heat (#17.5) Reacher is 17 in NYC (1977) one evening on his way to visit his brother at WestPoint. So, in the end this is 4 different stories of varying quality. The average score of this collection is 3 stars out of 5. I can't really find anything about this short story to recommend it. Reacher is called from Germany to go undercover in a congressional hearing regarding a new sniper rifle. Military Intelligence thinks that there is a leak as to the specs of that rifle. Reacher's job is to find the leak.
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