Jack Reacher

Vacation Reading - I ordered numbers two, three & four of the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child to take on vacation.  I had read some of this series, but not in order.  They are Die Trying, Tripwire and Running Blind.  Unfortunately, I left Tripwire on a bus, only half read.  I'll have to get a copy from the library and finish it.

Jack Reacher is ex-military police investigator who lives on the move - no home, no belongings, no family.  Buys a new set of clothes when the old ones get too dirty.  In Die Trying, Reacher is kidnapped along with an FBI agent from the Chicago streets.  The kidnappers are holding her not because she is FBI, but because her father is a high-level military officer.  The title is apt, because both Reacher and Holly nearly die trying to escape and to prevent a sinister plot to destroy the world.  He is like John McClane in Die Hard - how many times can one man survive near-fatal assaults?  With Reacher, it is a very high number.

In Running Blind, Jack runs afoul of the FBI when women he investigated while still in the army are murdered.  FBI profiler Julia Lamarr is certain Jack is a serial killer.  Of course, it is much more complicated as Jack runs around trying to find the real killer and protect his girlfriend (yes, he has a girlfriend for a time).

Great vacation reads!

Happy Reading!~