I love Jack Reacher. He's a combination superhero and B-movie action hero. I've been trying to cast him in the movie in my head, but haven't quite managed to get him down. I'd like to think of him as a big guy, like John Wayne, but more urban tough, like Charles Bronson.

This whole series is built to be incredibly entertaining and a non-stop joyride. You do not read these for probable outcomes or events or for great literary significance. You read these because you want good escapism in the form of a really good thriller and these will deliver.

I always manage to learn some odd bit of trivia I didn't know before from these books. This time is was a bit about the British in Afghanistan that I never put together until now.

Great plotting, superb action, big fun. ( )

The pace and suspense are good. The plot is beyond belief, so it essentially a fantasy. Some of Reacher's flaws stand out. Reacher exercises incredible powers of deduction, like Sherlock Holmes, and tends to be a discursive narrator. Occasionally he become laconic and sarcastic, in style of Parker's Spenser. It doesn't work well. On the whole, entertaining. ( )

After reading a string of somewhat unsatisfactory books lately, I finally got what I bargained for – a solid thriller that held my attention from beginning to end. The bad guys are evil, the ”good” guys are only marginally better and there is Jack Reacher, the lone wolf, the incorruptible hero, with not much more to his name than a toothbrush, a metro pass and an expired passport. The last guy on earth without a cellphone. Yes, he's that guy, out there on the streets of New York. Any girl would fall for him, and I admit I got rather more housework done this week than was strictly necessary while listening to “Gone Tomorrow” on my mp3 player (that's the modern version of a walkman, Jack). And speaking of audiobooks, kudos to whoever picked Dick Hill as the reader for this one. The man sounds like Jack Reacher ought to sound.

This is the first Reacher novel I listened to – I picked it up mainly because the premise sounded interesting – and I don't think it matters that it was the thirteenth in the series (but I'm glad to know there's more Jack Reacher fare out there).

Just great. Read it in one day. Reacher in NY, spots a potential suicide bomber, but she isn't, she's just a suicide… gets murkier and murkier as FBI, DoD and others try to get Reacher to back off but he, as usual, doggedly pursues the truth. Delta Force, Al Qaeda, NYPD all are involved. Spooky. ( )

Another excellent, fast-paced Jack Reacher novel, this time set in New York City, where Jack is confronted by a potential suicide bomber as he travels the subway late at night. As always, it becomes personal and the more people tell Jack to forget what he's heard or seen, the more determined he is to find what's going on. You just want to keep reading another chapter until the final page. When you analyze the plot afterwards, of course, there are all kinds of holes in it, but that doesn't seem to matter as Lee Child writes so well and keeps your interest to the final page. ( )