| Title | : | Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0593057058 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780593057056 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 441 |
| Publication | : | First published April 23, 2009 |
There are twelve things to look for: No one who has worked in law enforcement will ever forget them.
New York City. The subway, two o'clock in the morning. Jack Reacher studies his fellow passengers. Four are OK. The fifth isn't.
The train brakes for Grand Central Station. Will Reacher intervene, and save lives? Or is he wrong? Will his intervention cost lives - including his own?
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13) Reviews
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Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13), Lee Child
Gone Tomorrow is the thirteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It is written in the first person, and first published on 2009.
It's 2 am, and Jack Reacher is travelling on the New York City Subway. He notices a suspicious looking passenger who matches many of the specifications for a potential suicide bomber. When he approaches Susan Mark with an offer of assistance, she shoots herself. ...
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز شانزهم ماه ژانویه سال2017میلادی
عنوان: دوازده نشانه (فردای رفته)؛ نویسنده: لی چالد؛ مترجم محمد عباس آبادی؛ تهران، نشر تندیس، سال1396؛ در583ص؛ شابک9786001822636؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده21م
کتاب «دوازده نشانه (فردای رفته)»، سیزدهمین کتاب، از سری کتاب‌های «جک ریچر»، اثر «لی چایلد» است، که نخستین بار در سال2009میلادی منتشر شده است؛ این داستان برخلاف بیشتر کتاب‌های دیگر این سری، از زبان «ریچر» بازگو می‌شود
چکیده: ساعت دو بامداد است، و «جک ریچر»، ارتشی پیشین، در قطار متروی «نیویورک سیتی» بنشسته است؛ ظاهر و رفتار مشکوک یکی از پنج مسافر، توجه او را جلب می‌کند: زنی که طبق آموخته های نظامی «ریچر»، تقریباً همه ی نشانه های یک بمب گذار انتحاری را دارد؛ «ریچر»، با پیشنهاد یاری به او نزدیک می‌شود، زن تپانچه ای از کیفش درمی‌آورد و خودکشی می‌کند؛ این مرگ غیرعادی، مداخله ی پلیس «نیویورک» را، در پی دارد، و پس از بازجویی از «ریچر»، به عنوان شاهد عینی، تصمیم می‌گیرند، پرونده را بدون انجام پژوهش ببندند؛ اما «ریچر»، اندیشه های دیگری در سر دارد؛ او میخواهد بفهمد آنشب چه رخ داده، و چرا آن همه پرسش بی پاسخ مانده است؛ میخواهد خود در این‌باره پژوهش کند؛ پس از آن به او هشدار داده می‌شود، که خودش را از این پرونده کنار بکشد، ولی عذاب وجدان او، به خاطر احتمال تحریک آن زن به خودکشی، موجب می‌شود، تا زمانیکه این معما را تا آخر پیگیری نکرده، آرام و قرار نداشته باشد؛ طولی نمی‌کشد، که او با رازهای بزرگی رودررو می‌شود، که مأموران فدرال، و عوامل «القاعده»، برای جلوگیری از افشای آن‌ها، حاضر هستند دست به کشتار بزنند...؛
تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 15/05/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 29/02/1401هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی -
Superbly fantastic and definitely worth reading.
Lee Child has outdone himself once again with this thirteenth installment of Jack Reacher series. Unmistakably, Gone Tomorrow falls into the ‘exceptional read’ category. For me, this book had a very riveting and ingenious plot, and with each unforeseeable twist and turn, my curiosity grew bigger and bigger. The more I got into the story, the harder it was for me to put it down. This one had me completely hooked!
This book is, hands down, one of the best thrillers I’ve read this year. Couldn’t recommend it more highly! -
This is among the best of the Jack Reacher novels, and it opens with Reacher riding in a New York City subway car late at night. There are only a few other people in the car, including a middle-aged woman. At this time of night, most other people would be half asleep or at least minding their own business, but of course, Reacher is not most other people.
The Israelis have developed an eleven-point system for determining if a woman is a terrorist. (There's twelve things to check in the case of a potential male terrorist.) Naturally, Reacher knows the list by heart, and as the reader watches, Reacher patiently works his way through all eleven points before concluding that the woman is, in fact, a terrorist and that she has a bomb in the bag she's carrying.
Naturally, Reacher must prevent the woman from reaching her destination and setting off the bomb, taking who knows how many innocent lives along with her own. But how can he stop her when she's sitting several feet away from him with her finger almost certainly on the switch?
Of course Reacher will intervene, and when he does it sets off a series of developments that will have him in deep, deep trouble with the NYPD, the F.B.I., the Department of Defense, and a particularly nasty group of terrorists. There's also a candidate for the U.S. Senate who has secrets to protect and Reacher will have to be at the top of his game if he's going to get all this sorted out and somehow manage to survive and not wind up "disappeared" into a government hell hole somewhere.
The story moves along at the pace of one of those speeding bullets that Reacher always takes time to describe before firing the weapon that will send it on its way. It's a very entertaining and particularly scary story, in part because it does credibly suggest that in the post-9/11 era, at least some individuals and agencies within the U.S. government are perfectly willing to trample all over the basic rights and civil liberties of anyone who might get in their way--all for The Greater Good, of course. All things said, Gone Tomorrowa very compelling read. -
This one's hard to review because any little detail I reveal might turn out to spoil a surprise for someone. I will say this was an exciting, satisfying read. Much more like his earlier Reacher books that got us hooked. Once you get past a certain point in the book, there's no good stopping point. You just have to keep reading right on through. Don't expect perfect plausibility. It's a thriller, so let yourself go and enjoy! There are even a few good laughs along the way. The thing about the rubber gardening clogs had me cackling.
Jack Reacher witnesses a late-night tragedy involving a woman on a New York subway. He is approached by various people who know he was a witness. They ask him questions that make no sense to him, and he decides to figure out why the woman did what she did on the subway. Stubborn and arrogant as ever, Reacher refuses to back off regardless of the danger level. It's an elaborate cat and mouse game through the streets and subways of New York City. Who's the cat and who's the mouse remains to be decided as the story progresses. There's only one small thing left unrevealed at the end that I really wanted to know. We can only hope it will be revealed in a future installment. -
You know that game you can play where "The Karate Kid" becomes a lot funnier if you just imagine that Mr. Miyagi is stoned the whole time?
You don't? Well, now you do.
Anyway, I've devised my own little game, and I play it every time I read a Lee Child thriller. I imagine that his hero, Jack Reacher, has Asperger's Syndrome.
Before any of you "psychologists" out there jump all over me -- no, all the pieces don't fit -- but his obsessive tendencies, his refusal to own any possessions, his rootlessness, and the amount of time he lavishes on noticing small, precise, exact details add up to someone who is very, very different from most everyone else on planet earth.
I'm actually not a big fan of DSM classifications, so maybe diagnosing Jack Reacher on the autism scale is a waste of time. Still, his brain does work in a strange and particular way. When someone pulls a gun on him, the reader is not only going to find out that it's a Ruger Speed-Six .357 Magnum, but also that the .357 Magnum was invented in 1935, and that "magnum" is Latin for "big." When Jack Reacher is riding a subway car, he's not only going to describe the size of the car, the other passengers, and the sounds of the train going through the tunnels and the brakes screeching, he's also going to let the reader know that he's on car number 7622, which is an R142A model, which is the newest on the MTA transit system, and that it was built in Kobe, Japan, by Kawasaki. He's also going to assign his fellow passengers numbers and spend an inordinate amount of time describing to the reader exactly where they are sitting in relation to him.
In fact, Reacher spends so much time over the course of the first several chapters describing his exact surroundings on the subway (where he thinks he's spotted a female suicide bomber) that I was surprised when things came to a hasty conclusion and he was off on adventures through New York City and down the eastern seaboard to Washington, D.C.
I actually think Lee Child's thrillers work best when he embraces the fact that his protagonist is somewhat odd (although I'm not sure he realizes just how odd he is). They don't work so well when he spends time trying to build romantic relationships for Reacher (as in Tripwire) because they're never believable. At least in Gone Tomorrow, the only sex scene is mercifully brief and in keeping with his character. ("It was all good. Then we passed some kind of a threshold and got into it harder. A short minute later we were completely out of control." Done.)
Of all the Jack Reacher thrillers I've read so far, I'd classify them as either "not so good" or "pretty good," and this one falls firmly in the region of "pretty good." It frequently approaches "damned good," but not quite often enough for me to bump my rating up from three stars to four stars.
Oh, and in my last review of a Reacher thriller -- 61 Hours, the book published right after this one -- I was left with a single burning question. Does the homeless Jack Reacher ever brush his teeth? Well, Gone Tomorrow finally answered my question. Several times in the book he mentions the folding toothbrush he carries with him everywhere. So I can cross that off my list of burning questions. -
"I kept my eyes moving all around the park. Look, don't see. Listen, don't hear. The more you engage, the longer you survive." -- Jack Reacher, on suddenly being a wanted man, page 369
The mediocrity or just plain dullness of the previous chronological Jack Reacher novel, Nothing to Lose, instantly made it my least favorite in the series thus far when I read it two months ago. But in a nice rebounding manner, the follow-up Gone Tomorrow seemed like one of the better and certainly one of the more serious (with its references to actual and unpleasant global military history) of the Reacher books. The storyline kept me involved enough that I devoured it in single weekend, and it's also one of the rare entries presented in first-person narration. It opens with quite literally a mind-blowing bang as the former U.S. military policeman Reacher, riding on the New York City subway system at dawn, witnesses a troubled-looking fellow passenger intentionally shoot herself in the head. The plot then gets all properly twisty and twisted (there were several alluded-to and described torture scenes - definitely my least favorite moments) as Reacher discovers that a decorated U.S. Army hero-turned-senatorial incumbent is desperately seeking to suppress some buried but still-potentially troublesome information on a prior off-the-records mission, all the while a lethal squad of Al Qaeda operatives have also covertly arrived in the Big Apple. Is the entire thing plausible? Who know or really cares? It read like an exceptionally good conspiracy-laced dramatic action film. -
Jack Reacher finds himself in the midst of an event in Manhattan which leads him into a series of interconnected plots. Lee Child skillfully introduces the elements of the story which, at times, seems to be leading nowhere. Reacher's instincts and integrity lead him to the truth, and he sorts out the solutions in his own unique way. Although only a four star, I love the way Lee Child writes action scenes. His technical detail is vivid, and his flair for describing the action makes you hold your breath. Lee Child has another winner.
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My Rating: 2.9/5
It's a good book. Boring half the time though and repetitive. I expected more. -
Another outstanding Reacher ... Lee Child never fails to write powerful, tense action
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I like the Jack Reacher series but my goodness this was tedious. I kept putting it down and not wanting to go back to it. Reacher is on a New York train when he sees a woman who meets all the usual requirements for a suicide bomber but when he sticks his snout in, the woman whips out a gun and kills herself. Everyone else on the train car disappears and he is left to explain what happened. Immediately he is hassled by the feds, the NYPD, and some mysterious foreign guys in cheap suits with phony business cards and two weird female leaders- a mean old hag who is from the middle east and loves to slice people open and skin them and a model worthy beauty named Lila who is even meaner than the hag. Eek!
So Reacher is in the middle of the mess because they all want a certain federal file that the dead woman lifted (she works for the Dept of Defense) and has on a flash drive and everyone- including a former military guy who had done an illegal mission in Lila's country and who is running for political office- thinks the dead woman gave it to Reacher.
Soon he is involved in intrigue and is being chased by the police, feds, and international murdering terrorists. Somehow this is just , I don't know, blah. He has his usual roll in the hay once with a female detective for no apparent reason (there is nothing in it for her). -
This book was brilliant. I couldn’t put it down. The action was there right from the beginning and didn’t let up throughout the whole story. The plot was fast paced, which made it a real page turner. The main character is one of those people that you can’t help but like, despite the fact that he’s a killer. The characterisation of Reacher is in-depth and gives the book real integrity. Having read Killing Floor - which introduced Jack Reacher - but nothing in between, I liked how the character has developed between the two books.
I liked the length of the chapters. They were relatively short, which meant that each part of the book could be digested in smaller chunks and it made it easier to come back to after a break. There were a couple of twists in the book that kept my interest, and I thought they added to the plot – sometimes twists can seem contrived, but not in this case. I liked the plot subject - I can't actually say anything about it, as that would give away details, but suffice to say it's very relevant and I liked Child's take on it.
A great book, definitely one I’d recommend to fans of fast-paced thrillers. I’ve only read one other Lee Child book (and enjoyed that one too as it happens), but I’ll definitely be reading the previous books in this series.
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I was on page 369 before I realized that one of the characters in this novel by Lee Child was named Lee. Yes, yes, it was her last name, but she is constantly referred to as Lee, and yet I didn't notice till I was more than halfway through the book. I usually notice that type of author hilarity fairly quickly, but not this time. THAT'S how completely immersed I was in the action. This book is utterly absorbing. I am amazed at Child's ability to keep the pace break-neck and the turns switch-back and the dialogue and narratorial commentary tongue-in-cheek. I was on a roller-coaster on a ride I did not want to end, and so I read this 500+-page novel in the course of two days, basically in about nine hours. I was not happy when the novel was over, yet I am gleeful that I have the next novel in the series on my "To-Read Shelf." I am going to savor the anticipation and NOT start the book for at least a week as I enjoy the post-novel glow. If you want to read a thrilling thriller; read this one--or any other Jack Reacher novel. I've read six now, and every one was a great pleasure. If you've never read a Jack Reacher novel and only saw poor little Tom Cruise trying not only to fill but actually walk in Reacher's very large ass-kicking boots, then I envy you (although I'm sorry to hear you wasted money on the movie when you could have bought two of the novels)--you have sixteen or seventeen hits of bliss ahead of you in novel-sized installments. Go ye forth and enjoy.
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Book 13 in the Jack Reacher series.
Another high action, heart pumping Jack Reacher thriller.
Jack just can’t help himself, no matter what the situation he just has to get involved.
On this occasion Jack is sitting on an underground train at 2 am, as you do, when he sees a woman acting strangely, just like he would expect a bomber to be acting. Never one to ignore a possible threatening situation Jack approaches the woman with the intention of talking out of what ever it is she is intending. Much to Jacks surprise the woman pulls a gun out and points it at Jack but even more surprising is when she puts the gun to her head and shoots herself.
Jack, of course, can’t leave things there he has to get involved and in so doing becomes the number one target from, not only the people responsible for the woman’s suicide but also the NYPD, the FBI, the Department of Defence and last but not least the Department of Homeland Security. To say that he is up to his neck in it would be accurate.
With his usual grit and determination Jack make it his business to see that the baddies get what’s coming to them. It’s never a good idea to rub Jack up the wrong way.
A 4 star, high action, read with enough twists and spills to keep you turning the pages. -
4 stars
Warning: There are brutal torture scenes at about 38% and 72% through the book. I skipped them.
As usual with my reviews, please first read the publisher’s blurb/summary of the book. Thank you.
There's a lot of holes in this, and excessive detail a bit too often (a well-known Child flaw), but it's a good ride, very satisfying. I skimmed maybe 30 pages overall to keep an excellent pace, and that worked pretty well for me.
As usual, the middle of the book lagged a bit, and you can skip the torture scenes as noted above - they add nothing to the plot, and only add mouth-foam to the bad guys. There's a bit too much detail about New York City itself, the streets and trains and buildings. The dialogue is mostly very good, on-point and advancing the plot.
The climax is very good, high on action and tradecraft. This book was actually better than I thought it would be.
Notes and quotes:
Susan Mark: a woman heading for the end of her life, as surely and certainly as the train was heading for the end of the line.
The world is the same jungle all over, but New York is its purest distillation.
Ruger Speed-six
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The universal Noir-mobile (Reacher, Bosch, Spenser, Cole, etc): Crown Vic
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38% - A very interesting and brutal pocket history here of the Soviet experience in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. WARNING: VERY BRUTAL
... you must save the last bullet for yourself because you do not want to be taken alive, especially by the women.
Gregori Hoth's VAL VSS Silent Sniper rifle. Note the huge suppressor (silencer)
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I said, ‘I was telling [him] about how we studied the Red Army. You know what they were most afraid of? Not us. They were most afraid of their own people. Their worst torment was living their whole lives proving their own innocence, over and over again.’
The army had tested the Steyr GB. It was a miracle of modern engineering. Not only did it work exactly like it should, it also worked exactly like it shouldn’t. It had a complex gas-delayed blowback system that meant it could be loaded with substandard or elderly or badly assembled rounds and still fire. Most guns have problems with variable gas pressures. Either they blow up with too much or fail to cycle with too little. But the Steyr could handle anything. Which was why Special Forces loved it. They were often far from home with no logistics, forced to rely on whatever they could scrounge up locally. The Steyr GB was a metal marvel.
Springfield's Steyr GB
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Reacher's silenced Heckler & Koch MP5SD
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A great insurmountable Reacher pursuit with the “x-military” cop & drifter to the get truth in this typical mystery — his high unstoppable desires to solve no matter what his “personal” cost!
Reacher is in a NYC late night subway ride with 5 others, he suspects one passenger may be a “suicide” bomber. When he talks to her, she suspects him as the “law” & shoots herself with a gun.
As usual with local law, NYPD police & Others do not want Reacher involved, Reacher only wants to know why? Why can’t NYPD police investigate, the suicide bomber “morality” (right/wrong) to society, it was not absolute?
Another passenger, the train was on her way to deliver “whatever” FBI or Pentagon information she was told to get.
Reacher works with NYPD Agent Theresa Lee (romantic interest with Reacher) & Jacob Mark (small town Jersey cop) leading to a “rising” Congressman John Sansom, they suspect & must review him as a suspect? Then they find Susan Mark’s adopted son, Peter Molina is missing.
They find Congressmen John Sansom worked with a Afghanistan leader for American murders over discriminating photos to hide?
Reacher discovers that they are “Al Qaeda” terrorists. Susan Mark (Jacob’s sister) gets a video of Peter’s murder(her son) & commits suicide. Reacher has to find & take care of the last 2 fighting terrorists....
Medals & abbreviations the book has listed
1. DSM - Distinguished Service Medal
2. HRC - Human Resources Command
3. DSC - Distinguished Service Cross
4. CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
5. DIA - Defense Intelligence Agency.
6. CGUSAHRC - Commanding General, United States Army, Human Resources Command
Main Characters
1. Jack Reacher- the main star - the x-military cop
2. John Samson - No. Carolina “Rising” congressmen, 17 yr former U.S. Army Major retired. With medals Reacher questions: DSC, DSM, 2 Silver Stars? Once successful CEO, Sansom Consulting?
3. Lila Hoth - “beautiful” Ukrainian suspect, Susan’s friend
4. Theresa Lee - NYPD Detective/romance w/Reacher
5. Jacob/Jake Mark - small Jersey town cop w/Reacher
6. Susan Mark - Jacob’s sister, HRC, Human Resources Clerk
7. Peter Molina(22) - killed by terrorists, Susan Mark’s son
Publishers Weekly -
My thirteenth adventure with Jack Reacher and once again what another thrilling ride it was. Only Lee Child could open a book and spend the best part of two pages talking about the make and model of a subway carriage and where it was made and still have me enthralled (however, I was pleased to see this actually had relevance near the end of the story). Reacher’s brain capacity is seemingly endless in the amount of detail that he comes out with in these stories.
Gone Tomorrow is a first person Reacher novel however it was only after about 300 pages that I remembered that. I was too engrossed in the story for it to have any importance but it is always interesting to get that first person view. The plot I felt was strong, though the blurb gives nothing away except to say that Reacher witnesses a potential suicide bomber on a subway train. Well, nothing is ever that simple in a Lee Child story and this was another tale of secrets, conspiracies and Reacher just having to have sex with the female character (this time around the sex lasted about five lines and added zilch to the story or the characterisation). I was impressed with the depth to the story and the constant misdirection that Lee Child does so well. At times Reacher does get away too easily but, I read these novels to see him overcome the bad guys and it is fiction so I can overlook that.
It is interesting to view Reacher in the modernising world, especially when it comes to technology and the advancements of the internet and mobile phones. It’s less easy for him to hide when he’s using his real passport and has a bank account and so he isn’t really as off the grid as he was in the earlier novels. If somebody really wants to find him, they aren’t going to have too hard a job of it. It’s also fun to see him learning new things as opposed to being a walking encyclopaedia of almost every topic known to man.
Gone Tomorrow was a great instalment in the series and it was one that I very much enjoyed. I can’t see me never not enjoying a Reacher story, only ever less or more than the previous one. I am attempting to catch up with this series before my holiday in May so that I can take the most recent three books and the short story collection with me and so that means it’s straight into 61 Hours. Long live Reacher. -
This is book 13 in the Reacher series and he finds himself yet again in the crossfire of violence and crime. When a woman on the subway in New York ticks all the boxes of being a suicide bomber Reacher cannot help but approach her and talk to her. What follows has Reacher dealing with US secret service and Al-Qaeda.
Somewhat predictable but still gripping, another good story. -
One of the best Reacher books yet - I'm giving it 5 stars just because how he dealt with the evil doers. No condescending bullshit, the author knew the reader wanted to see the villains suffer - I certainly did, after having nightmares reliving "that scene" - so he had Reacher go all out crazy on them. I applaud you, Mr. Child!
As usual, Reacher is minding his own business - this time in the subway - when he sees a situation and gets involved. Soon enough, he's looking for answers even though the Police, the Feds and pretty much everybody and their dog tells him to forget about it. For the first half of the book, there's a lot of investigation and setting the stage for the second half, which is high octane and full of action.
I like Reacher in New York. A few of the books are set in the City, but this is the one where he spends most time on the ground. Mr. Child captured the spirit of the people - that scene in Union Square was priceless - and did great research. I'm very familiar with Union Square/Gramercy so it gave me a thrill to imagine Reacher moving from place to place (I even used to shop early in the morning in that Food Emporium, so now I have this image of Reacher evading the cops by pretending to grocery shop.)
Dick Hill has become the voice of Reacher and his performance with "that scene" was masterful. You could feel Reacher shutting down to control his emotions but you could still feel his impotence and his rage. It gave me chills.
The denouement was all that that it should have been. The villains PAID and it wasn't pretty or quick. I had a particular wish and Reacher obliged me. It was awesome.
After so much violence, you would think I'd spend a second night in a row having nightmares but instead, I slept like a baby. I guess I felt more secure knowing Reacher had taken care of business. -
Brilliant...One of the best opening chapters of any book I have ever read. Always excellently researched, as always. Following Jack Reacher's logic is thrilling. Read it.
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I like the Reacher series. When I’m done with one, I’m eager for the next. This was good.
STORY BRIEF:
While riding on a subway train, Reacher sees Susan Mark kill herself. He is questioned by the cops, the feds, and a group of mercenary security guards. These groups and others think Reacher knows more than he says, and they follow him, pressure him, and try to hurt him to get information. This makes Reacher want to retaliate. So now he is now on the trail to find out what’s going on.
REVIEWER’S OPINION:
Some of the other Reacher stories didn’t have the thriller element. They were solving a mystery with some action. I prefer thrillers like this one - meaning we are in the heads of the bad guys and watch them as they try to hurt Reacher and others. I enjoy the series. You need to suspend disbelief at times. This is almost like a comic book super hero. I have these short bursts of laughter when I hear some of Reacher’s macho dialogue. It’s fun. I like hanging out with him.
NARRATOR:
The narrator Dick Hill was very good.
DATA:
Unabridged audiobook reading time: 14 hrs and 13 mins. Swearing language: I don’t recall any. Sexual language: none. Number of sex scenes: one referred to not shown. Setting: current day mostly New York City with a little in Washington DC and North Carolina. Book copyright: 2009. Genre: mystery suspense thriller. Ending: feel good and satisfying.
THE SERIES:
Following is a list of the Jack Reacher books in order with my ratings. All the books could be read as stand-alones, but I’d recommend reading them in order, maybe saving the lower rated ones for last.
4 ½ stars. Killing Floor (#1)
4 stars. Die Trying (#2)
4 stars. Tripwire (#3)
2 ½ stars. Running Blind (#4)
4 stars. Echo Burning (#5)
3 ½ stars. Without Fail (#6)
4 stars. Persuader (#7)
3 stars. The Enemy (#8)
4 ½ stars. One Shot (#9)
3 stars. The Hard Way (#10)
3 ½ stars. Bad Luck and Trouble (#11)
2 stars. Nothing To Lose (#12)
4 stars. Gone Tomorrow (#13)
3 stars. 61 Hours (#14)
4 ½ stars. Worth Dying For (#15)
4 stars. The Affair (#16)
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I hate subways. They are a claustrophobic and xenophobic nightmare. Underground tin cans bulleting through tunnels, stuffed wall-to-wall with sweaty, grumpy people. Not my idea of fun. After reading Lee Child's 13th book in his Jack Reacher series, "Gone Tomorrow", I hate them even more.
Reacher has a talent for finding trouble. One could argue that trouble finds him, but half the time he does most of the footwork. In this case, a simple subway ride turns into a violent roller-coaster with geo-political ramifications.
Reacher finds a seat in a random subway car at 2 a.m. Besides himself, there are five other passengers. By pure luck, one of the passengers is a woman named Susan Marks. Based on his military knowledge and experience, Reacher is aware of the Israeli counterintelligence checklist for identifying a suicide bomber. There are eleven indicators. Ms. Marks exhibits ten of them.
To say more would spoil the fun and suspense of this novel, which builds to a terrifying crescendo. It is, also, probably the most violent of the Reacher novels thus far, so a word to the squeamish: if this were a movie, you would probably have to cover your eyes through nearly a third of it. -
Gone Tomorrow, the 13th book in Lee Child's Jack Reacher Series - Jack Reacher, maverick, loner, a nomad who drifts from town to town and who lives by his own rules and regulations is back.
This time he's in New York City and one night riding on the subway, spots a woman in the same carriage he's travelling on, who he finds intriguing and he reads her body language which makes him think that she may be a suicide bomber.“Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all sorts of telltale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers.”
From New York to Washington D.C. and to Afghanistan, the trail goes back to the Soviet War in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the present war on terrorism that the world is dealing with.
Loved the NYC setting...brought back so many memories of all those visits I made to that city.
Another great story, action packed, filled with suspense and twists and turns. -
Hi,
Another Lee Child's book finished.
Although still good, I feel this one was a little slower then others I have read. A little too much bogged down in history although did build up to a exciting end.
Starting next one
regards
Sean -
A page turner
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4,5 / 5
Tam 'ilk defa Reacher kendisine yardım eden kadın karakterle yatmadı' derkennnn son düzlükte lafimı geri aldım 😆 -
Whilst on the subway, Reacher is sure that another passenger in the same compartment is a suicide bomber - should he intervene?
A great addition to the series! -
عالی بود. بهترین ریچری که خونده بودم. هم داستان عالی بود و هم ترجمه.
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I really enjoyed this book. Probably the best Jack Reacher yet. I had issues with a couple of the first Reacher novels, and the later ones too - mainly because Reacher tends to talk and think more than act in them. This one has just the right balance of mystery and suspense - Reacher has to figure out what's going on and why and the process is as interesting as the action sequences themselves. What's more, the mystery itself is interesting. The US foreign policy insights are accurate and interesting - as a former journalist, I can vouch for that. And the climax is different and effective, perhaps more so than all the earlier Reacher books. I won't give anything away, you can read the synopsis anywhere, but while everything is fairly predictable, which is the whole point of a series: to give you the same formula over again, same but different, at the same time it's also fresh-seeming enough to be suspenseful, and inventive. A great summer read that'll have you turning pages to get it over with, and yet enough meat and muscle to enjoy the getting-there. More a quick and messy knife fight than a shoot-em-up, and the more fun for that. And yes, I enjoy violence - in fiction - which is where it should stay, not in real life.
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I'm going to add the same review for all of the Reacher series, so if you've read this one, you've read 'em all. If you feel a certain affinity for the lone hero, a man of principle, of unwavering knowledge and assent as to his own actions, than Jack Reacher's your kinda guy.
Lee Child has created an unforgettable and unique character in his creation of Jack Reacher. Jack seems to implicitly understand that he is a unique animal/human running around on this planet and that in spite of social conventions, cultural trappings, and whatever conventions and abstractions we allow into our mind in order to alleviate this core fact of our singularity (and aloneness)...the truth of it is not something Mr. Reacher denies.
He embraces it. Understands his philosophy implicitly, revels in his physical being,his conventions and values. 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.
I read one, and within two months read all 15 books with an appetite that couldn't get enough.
Enough said,
HR -
Reacher is Reacher. You know what to expect and then you are not disappointed.
This a storyline that you will not forget. If you like technical detail it’s for you. Full of violence- I could not keep up with the body count. However following Reacher’s thinking and strategizing made all worthwhile. This time Reacher investigates the connection of a woman who shoots herself on the train to a senate candidate. The book also draws from real world events for it's backstory. The story features one of the more notable villains of the Reacher series. Although, Reacher usually never feels like he's in danger from the bad guys, the series is never a dull read. I was hooked from the beginning and could not put it down! Looking forward to the next book!
