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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. 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. This story has good bones -- it has a compelling lead character, a tight plot, an interesting mystery, believable tension, and a memorable climax -- but comes off the rails due to a few notable shortcomings in the writing. This especially annoyed me because this had such potential to be a tremendously good short story, were it not for these irksome missteps: Guy Walks Into a Bar (June 7, 2009); prequel to Gone Tomorrow includes Reacher, published in The New York Times.
High Heat Three Jack Reacher Novellas: Deep Down, Second Son, High Heat
Cleaning the Gold (May 2019) Lee and Karin Slaughter co-wrote this story which pairs Reacher with Slaughter’s Will Trent. Listened to the audiobook. Overall rating is 3, but Deep Down was the best of these & Rules the least. I don't want to spoil your fun, but just here, in those three novellas, we see Reacher as a 12 y/o kid, not only fighting and winning against other guys, much older than him and outnumbering him, but also same time he's solving some kind of mystery doing his own investigation and following his own clues, doing his own deductions and solving a critical case on the base, for the real MP's - military police - of the base that can't solve this case without this 12 y/o kid intervention... As everyone knows, I'm a huge fan of Lee Child's novels. But if this is an example of his short stories and if I were reading Child for the first time, I'd never read another book of his...ever. In my opinion "fate" has no place in mystery/thrillers. The genre depends on plot, the willing choices people make. Eliminating characters as suspects as due to chance beyond anyone's control (say for example, the weather) is a huge no, no for me. The Fourth Man (March 2019) originally published as bonus material in Australia’s Past Tense hardcovers, now a digital single in the UK.So, in the end this is 4 different stories of varying quality. The average score of this collection is 3 stars out of 5. 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.
High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella) - Penguin Books UK
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.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. Some of Hill's female voices leave a little to be desired. But I have no other complaints -- good stuff (he has sort of a Stan Lee quality to his voice from time to time -- if Child ever made him say "true believers," I'd flip). 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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