No Plan B: The unputdownable new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors

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Indeed, the characters are barely described and there are no interesting relationships between any two. Along the way, we are introduced to not one interesting character and forced to plow through page after page of eye-glazing, brain-numbing descriptions of how Reacher goes about accomplishing his tasks. Hannah was as one-dimensional as the bad guys, so I never learned to care for her beyond “she’s a good guy” kind of thing. While I enjoyed Better Off Dead, I liked No Plan B a little more and see it as another step in the right direction toward restoring the Jack Reacher franchise to its former glory and perhaps winning back some of Reacher’s past fans. As Lee becomes more and more hands off, Andrew drives the series further and further into the ground.

He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age. And he sees what actually happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving like a shadow, pushed the victim to her death—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. Faced with difficult to impossible odds, outnumbered and outgunned, Reacher wades into the fray full of the confidence of an overly large man who is capable of causing maximum damage with his fists, elbows, knees and feet. It consisted of a bunch of disconnected plots which all come together in an ending which was obvious, unsatisfying and totally ridiculous. Anyone who reads Andrew’s Reacher Books ahead of Lee’s won’t even give Lee a chance to show how brilliant he wrote 24 Reacher Books plus a number of short stories some better than others but all worth reading.The whole thing begins as Reacher sees a man throw a woman under the bus - quite literally - after which he steals her purse and runs. While this is going on, those other folks begin to converge at the same place - the Minerva Correctional Facility in Winson, Mississippi. Reacher witnesses a woman get murdered and her purse stolen, Reacher takes note of the scene and decides to let authorities handle it. If Lee Child had lost his passion for writing, why couldn’t he have left well enough alone and stopped sooner instead of turning out a handful of awful books just to collect a few more fat publisher’s advances off the superstar reputation he had established. This book had a terrible pace, a story that wasn't at all compelling and characters who were bland and uninteresting.

And that’s what compels him to travel from the crime scene in Colorado all the way to the small town of Winson in Mississippi. From vastly different parts of the country there are forces at work, drawing a bunch of seemingly unrelated people together.It’s easy to imagine the challenge of coming up with new ways to get Reacher, a retired military cop who drifts aimlessly across the country, into believable situations where he must use his past investigative skills and knowledge to right wrongs that the local cops either can’t or won’t address. There were at least four different points of view, but I had trouble telling them all apart—and for some reason, they kept repeating dialogue. This one had some really evil bad guys who have been getting away with some despicable practices for years. But witnessing a woman pushed in front of a bus started the ball rolling for Reacher, and his determination to get to the bottom of what was going on drove him forward.

I certainly enjoyed the ingenuity how the many moving parts of this narrative explosively collided to form an enjoyable denouement. The ‘Child’ brothers keep powering along, and their collaboration is bringing a new energy to the beloved Jack Reacher series (which is also flush with new fans in the wake of the hit adaptation). Jack Reacher, everyone’s favourite nomad, is back for another adventure, allowing Lee and Andrew Child to use their brilliant writing abilities one more. Although, so far, the co-written novels in this long-running series haven’t matched up to many of the earlier ones, in No Plan B there are signs that there could be life left in the series yet. When a murder that he’d witnessed is dismissed as a suicide—and a second “accidental” death follows—Reacher realizes he’s on the trail of a deadly conspiracy.Here, Jack wanders into a Colorado town and witnessed a woman get pushed under a bus so cleverly that everyone else present assumes its suicide.