A little something different with the Jack Reacher books

[walkin jack]

Going through the stacks at the local library and discovered something I hadn't previously heard about from Lee Child. Earlier this year he published a a collection of short stories in a book titled NO MIDDLE NAME. There are 12 stories. One of them he just wrote and some go back as far a 2009. I keep giving him one more second chance to put out a story like he used to and I'm in hopes that this one going back a ways for some of them will give me what I'm looking for.

I'm in another Sandford PREY book just now SILKEN PREY from 2014. I hadn't read it and don't know how I missed it. I thought I'd read them all. Any hoo When I finish it I'll get to the new Reacher collection and submit a book report.

Y'all wish me luck....

 

[Kiwi cop]

Read “No Middle Name”earlier this year. The stories are all short and sharp, intending to show experiences from Reacher’s early life that shaped him into 5he person he has become.

I enjoyed reading the book. But then I like all the Reacher books.

 

[walkin jack]

Well I must admit that I do too. But he has greatly improved his plot development and story telling abilities. The trade off is that Reacher is much softer and the action is severely diminished in his later books and both observations seem to be continuing.

 

[GKC]

I have and have read the first 20 books in the Reacher series, but I haven't bought or read the last two. I don't know that I will buy/read them...perhaps I'll come back to him someday, but for now, I have lost interest. The Jack Reacher movies were pretty good.

I do like Sandford's novels...both the Prey series and the Virgil Flowers series. In fact, I think Flowers is a much more interesting character now, since Lucas married and is more "settled down." Flowers seems like he is on the way to settling down with his girlfriend, especially based on something that happened at the end of the most recent novel (I won't spoil it for you, if you haven't read the book yet.) The two movies made from the Prey novels were abominations.

Another writer that I've enjoyed is Lawrence Sanders, although the McNally series was a bit frivolous compared to his other books. Still pretty good reads, though.