No Plan B: The unputdownable new 2022 Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors (Jack Reacher, 27)

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Every loyal reader of this series knows nobody messes with Jack Reacher - he can take down half a dozen very big, very angry men in the blink of an eye. The plot has four "legs," if you will - and that made it a little tough for me to follow, at least for the first half or so of the book, just because of the number of characters and switchbacks from one to the other. In some ways, it’s lacking in the nuance of the telling that the straight Lee Child authored books has, but it managed to keep me entertained and curious about what would happen next.

There are the bad guys who run a private prison system that has something to hide, a teenaged runaway looking for his father and an arsonist looking for revenge. 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. There is a noticeable difference in style of writing, now that Andrew has joined the writing team, perhaps a bit less warmth about our hero, but I'm happy to see there is still an occasional bit of humor to lighten things up. If it isn't careful, PRH is going to milk this cash cow dry with an annual publishing schedule that takes the loyal reader for granted (Now there's a corporate conspiracy plot line Reacher should investigate). If No Plan B had been written by a new-to-me author and with a protagonist not named Reacher, I would still have rated this 2.Reacher finds himself involved in an incident that spans across the US and gets him into trouble with a new collection of corrupt officials. There were six men in the room, and this was the third covert meeting they’d held there in the last week. A huge draw at countless Waterstones events, working with Lee over the years has for us always been an absolute pleasure. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. It’s an action/adventure mystery consisting of three to four plots, each plot seemingly having no relationship to any other--which means we keep skipping from plot to plot, all the while wondering what and where the “big reveal” will be.

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.The Child brothers know how to keep Reacher at the top of his game and series fans can revel in another wonderful thriller.

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. and his journey cross country is an eventful one, fraught with all of the dangers you might expect a young, naive boy on the run might fall into. This could not have been written by Lee Child (Andrew Child is listed as a co-author), and I doubt Lee had anything to do with it or even read it. Disclaimer: An advance copy was received directly from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.Reacher witnesses a woman get murdered and her purse stolen, Reacher takes note of the scene and decides to let authorities handle it.

Reacher violently beats up one thug every three pages in a far more violent and bloody way than usual.Reacher witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a bus by a furtive man in a grey hoodie, and then snaking his hand under her crushed body to retrieve her purse. Next to him is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent, who is trying to find her twin brother. But the official ruling is suicide so Reacher feels compelled to figure out what's really going on and who would want her dead. Things began a little shakily, but they appear to have righted themselves with this explosive thriller once more.