Die Trying

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They had crabbed around inside the truck until they were sitting sideways on the floor, legs straight out, propped against the big wheel well on the right, braced against the motion. The glass had been smashed out and was replaced by heavy plywood sheeting nailed to the remaining window frames.

He stumbles into a violent kidnapping and must decide who is the biggest threat: his captor militia men, or the feisty FBI agent. If he was going to make some kind of a move, this was the right time to make it, and the right location. The main character is obviously Jack Reacher and I don’t think we connected with him as a person as much as we did in Killing Floor. Now that he is out of the Military, he has been traveling around and getting to know the country he spent so many years fighting for. Child presents his tense, action-packed adventure in vivid prose, as lean and capable as his central character.Ex-military MP drifter Jack Reacher gets into trouble again and fights, kicks, breaks and shoots his way out. He just sat there in the gloom and used the hot dead time thinking and planning like he was trained to do. Reacher is walking down a Chicago street when he sees a young woman with an injured leg struggling to deal with her cane and the dry cleaning she just picked up so he tries to help her out.

Overall, I like the series and the lead character of Reacher enough to continue on at some point, but I hope that the quality of the writing improves over time. During the punishment, Reacher and Holly are forced to bury the caught Jackson's corpse, and Reacher suspects something big is about to happen. The old plaster from the ceiling and the boards from the walls and the floor had been thrown out through the windows before they were covered over with the plywood. Meanwhile, Reacher, after witnessing Borken execute Loder, the leader of the kidnappers, for multiple failures, is shown around the camp with the intent of sending him back to the States with information on the militia's credibility.I enjoyed learning about her and her job but I wish there had been more about her as a person rather than about her family and how important she was. It might blow a hole in the person's ear, just the outside flap, and it's sure to shatter the person's eardrum.

He’s always been able to figure out where he is and what’s going on, but back “home”, he’s at a loss. The plot still seems like something lifted from an action movie and doesn’t bear much scrutiny even though it gets the job done.The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012. You're sitting there quite calmly, which suggests some kind of training, maybe some kind of familiarity with upsetting or dangerous situations. Reacher stops to help a young woman with her dry cleaning while she’s limping along with a crutch when he’s caught up in her kidnapping by a trio of not-very-nice fellas with a van. My problem with it is that I finished it and realized that when you finally get the big reveal at the end and figure out what's happening, and why, I went back and asked myself why the bad guys would have done what they did at the start of the novel to get the story rolling. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away, leaving the dentist bound and gagged inside his car with the woman's abandoned possessions, two gallons of gasoline.