Friday, May 24, 2024

Review of "Make Me: A Jack Reacher Thriller" by Lee Child




In this 20th book in the 'Jack Reacher' series, the former military cop helps search for a missing man. Like all Reacher books, the novel works fine as a standalone.


*****

Jack Reacher, a former military cop who wanders from place to place, exits a train in an Oklahoma town called 'Mother's Rest', curious to find out the origin of the name.



At the train station, Reacher happens to meet a private detective named Michelle Chang, whose business partner - whom she was supposed to meet in Mother's Rest - has vanished.



Reacher decides to help Chang search for her partner, and the duo soon discover that the residents of Mother's Rest are EXTREMELY hostile, and obviously hiding something.

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Reacher and Chang are essentially run out of town, and they embark on an investigation to find Chang's missing partner and discover what's going on in Mother's Rest.

The search takes the twosome around the country, and they finally get some valuable assistance from a journalist in Los Angeles, whom people constantly call with conspiracy theories.



There's plenty of action in the story, since Reacher hasn't met a man (or probably woman) he couldn't beat up. I don't want to give away spoilers, but we see a dark side of human nature in the tale's climax. There's also a touch of romance, for folks who like that sort of thing.

Rating: 3 stars

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