Blue Moon: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

Oct 2019 · Jack Reacher Book 24 · Sold by Dell

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“Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett

“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
 
This isn’t one of those times.
 
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
 
An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
 
Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
 
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Ratings and reviews

I have loved the Jack Reacher series. I was infuriated when 4 foot 11 inch Tom Cruise was cast to play Reacher, but this book was unworthy of the series. It is disconnected from everything, person, place, time and it reads like an echo where nothing is defined except violence which for the first time in the series is pointless. Reacher is violent but not a psychopath and that is how he comes off in this book. I didn't care about the supporting characters. The villans were cardboard cutout's written with an undertone of bigotry and ethnic stereotypes. The book wasted my time and money. I have never said that before and have read every Reacher novel always wanting another installment until now.

I have eagerly awaited the arrival of each and every Jack Reacher book. Blue Moon started out well. Jack gets caught up in a situation where people are in trouble and he steps in to help. The situation is compelling; a vulnerable older couple is beholden to loan sharps in an effort to keep up with the medical bills of their desparately ill daughter. Who can argue? Jack, ever the resourceful nice guy, is determined to fix things. Where this novel diverges from past episodes is that we now start killing virtually everyone in sight and piling up bodies at a rate that likely exceeds the total of all the bodies of all the Reacher novels to date. Our dear Jack even gets into beheading for effect. No, not OUR Jack! Reacher, which is to say Child, has taken a nasty turn. I think we need some shrink work and a return to previously established values. You can find this kind of violence everywhere. You can't find a character like the Jack Reacher we have come to know and love anywhere else. Let's not lose him.

Like most of the other Reacher books that I have read. The story seems to follow a formula. Not a bad formula as I have read a few Reacher books and found them all entertaining. This one was fast paced, plenty of action. Simple story. Reacher wanders into a city, meets a pretty girl, has bad guys pitted against him

About the author

Lee Child is the author of twenty-three New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher thrillers, with fourteen having reached the #1 position, and the #1 bestselling complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. All his novels have been optioned for major motion pictures—including Jack Reacher (based on One Shot) and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. A native of England and a former television director, Lee Child lives in New York City.