Will I love No Plan B?

It’s a Jack Reacher book. For me it’s an annual treat now—a tradition—like Christmas. Comforting. Familiar. Reliably enjoyable.

Admittedly, there once was a time when a Reacher book would have automatically been my number 1 favourite book of the year, and they aren’t quite as good as they used to be, but Jack is still such a great character he’s almost become writer-proof. Can’t wait to reach number 28.

As much as anything else, reading No Plan B was a relief. I really liked (indeed, was consumed by) the original, Lee Child, Jack Reacher books, so I was sad to hear he was semi-retiring and uncertain how well his plan to collaborate with his brother, Andrew Child, would work. 

And for me, it did not work in the first book they wrote together. No Plan B, however, was much more in the old Reacher style and was a complete success as far as I was concerned.

The bad guys were out-thought, out-fought, and generally got royally stuffed before… show more.