Exit Strategy: A Reacher Novel (Unabridged)
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3.6 • 167 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Jack Reacher will make three stops today. Not all of them were planned for. The page-turning new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
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First—a Baltimore coffee shop. A seat in the corner, facing the door. Black coffee, two refills, no messing around. A minor interruption from two of the customers, but nothing he can’t deal with swiftly. As he leaves, a young guy brushes against him in the doorway. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There’s no problem. Nothing is missing.
Second—a store to buy a coat. Nothing fancy. Something he can ditch when he heads to warmer climates. Large enough to fit a man the size of a bank vault. As he pulls out his cash, he finds something new in his pocket. A handwritten note. A desperate plea for help.
Third—wherever this bend in the road takes him. Impressed by the guy’s technique and intrigued by the message, Reacher makes it his mission to find out more . .
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A stranger’s note sends Jack Reacher on a hazardous journey to unravel a web of blackmail and murder in this action-packed thriller. The scrap-paper call for help leads him to a man named Nathan Gilmour. When Jack decides to neutralize the threat to Nathan, it pits them against a man hell-bent on creating and exploiting a brutal war. Lee Child and his brother Andrew crank up the stakes for Reacher in this installment of the best-selling series. We especially enjoyed getting to know the human tank’s latest crew: steely Sabrina Patton and her understandably jittery co-worker Gilmour. The Child brothers have also come up with an excellently hissable adversary in ruthless security company bigwig Morgan Strickland. Narrator Scott Brick’s vocal delivery establishes each character’s voice and leans into the story’s breakneck pace. Hold tight to your earbuds for another riveting round of vigilante justice, Reacher-style.
Customer Reviews
A solid Reacher story
I’ve read quite a few reviews that nearly had me shy away from this book, I’m glad I didn’t. I can see some of the criticisms, somewhat disjointed, poor pacing, flat engagement, but I must disagree. This was a solid Reacher story. It was well paced, and the mystery unfolds with the same types of twists and dead ends that one comes to expect from a Reacher novel. I recommend this book for anyone, and especially for Reacher fans.
Another good Reacher story but……
It seems to me that since this narrator, Mr. Brick, took over the job from Dick Hill, he has grown increasingly hyperbolic or affected or excessively dramatic or over acting or whatever the appropriate term for the phenomenon is, with each successive novel: Sadly, it’s getting to the point that I am gradually missing increasingly greater parts of the storyline and have to go back and review: I become distracted by Mr. Brick sounding as though he is about to weep or have a nervous breakdown when describing a character saying or doing something that simply would never warrant that level of emotion in real life. This is especially true for Gilmour but even Reacher is speaking with excessive emotion, exaggerated speech.
Yes it is fiction but the more believable the fiction the better the story. Wish he’d have toned it down a few notches.
Disappointing
Plot holes, incoherent story, and hollow characters with generic uninteresting back story. The ending fell flat.