Review: Personal (Jack Reacher, #19) by Lee Child

Personal by Lee Child
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Personal: the 19th Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Childs is a not nearly as good as early ones in this series but definitely better than some of the last couple of books.

Jack Reacher is such an unconventional hero and I have grown to like his character more and more with each book. Ex military policeman who has chosen to become a drifter…off the grid…travel by bus, train or just walk across America – no possessions except a pocket toothbrush…he buys new clothes in each new town and throws his used ones away….he does however, have a atm card!!!!

But as usual, he’s found by his old bosses and friends when there’s a need for a man of his knowledge…this time to help old USA with an unsuccessful plot to kill the French president.
So, he’s soon off to Paris…his deceased mother’s birth town, where he meets up with some nincompoops….and some not so…..just misses being killed by a sniper…who is thought to be someone Reacher had put away years ago. And finds time to eat some real French fare in a real French café and even visiting his mother’s grave….which was quite a touching scene.

Then it’s off to London with Casey Nice, the young and green State Department official or is it CIA agent

….where they are chased all over the city and suburbs by local gangs, Serbian gangs and even Russian ones too!!!! With a dash of MI5, KGB, and FBI…..good and bad guys abounding! He’s after all being used as bait to get Kott, the sniper out in the open….but hey, JR is used to this!!! No problem is too huge for him!!

Hell, Jack Reacher is the ultimate James Bond

and McGyver –

all in one!!! The ultimate JACK REACHER!!!

I just love how he thinks, the way he observes and analyzes things around him and how good he is at working out what makes people tick.

Not much talk but much listening and watching and acting on his instincts…which are pretty awesome!!!

I have to say something here….the whole Socratic thing!!!! Okay, critical thinking…yes JR does that a lot…but never seen that word used in any previous books. I guess it’s the modern terms of this new age!!!!!!

Some new and interesting characters….Casey Nice…don’t we just love her truck!!! And Bennett, the MI5 or is it 6? And Scarangelo…geez now that’s quite a mouthful!!!!

I liked this book… after all it’s JACK REACHER!!!!


View all my reviews