BOOKS: One Shot: Lee Little one

Oct. 15—A number of months in the past, upon studying my first Jack Reacher e-book, I famous an individual might learn one Jack Reacher novel a month for greater than two years.

It was meant as a slight joke as an instance the variety of Jack Reacher books already accessible. Creator Lee Little one has written greater than two dozen of the books up to now quarter century.

Having watched the AmazonPrime “Reacher” sequence, with season one based mostly on the primary e-book, I picked up the second e-book, “Die Attempting,” made the little commentary in a evaluate about having the ability to learn one monthly for 2 years or extra and thought actually that can by no means occur. Not for me.

There are such a lot of different books to learn: Histories, biographies, novels, thrillers by different authors, books by native authors, and so on.

However each month since “Die Attempting,” I discover myself selecting up the following Jack Reacher e-book. Eight books, thus far, books No. 2 via 9 within the sequence. I nonetheless want to return and skim the primary one.

Jack Reacher books are like Pringles. Chances are you’ll assume you are going to put them down however you retain reaching for only one extra. With Pringles, you possibly can end a can of the potato crisps in a sitting … with Reacher, at the very least for me, it is taking a look at my e-book stack and realizing, yep, one other three to 4 weeks have handed because the final one … only one extra.

Like Pringles, Reacher is addictive and there are such a lot of extra to go earlier than the can is empty … that is it for the Pringles analogy.

In “One Shot,” Little one is again writing as an all-powerful narrator. Up to now two novels — “Persuader” and “The Enemy,” Reacher was the narrator. The books appear to work higher when Reacher shouldn’t be the narrator.

In “One Shot,” a person is arrested following the slaying of 5 folks in a really public place. The proof pins the person, a former Military sniper, to the case.

The suspect tells authorities they’ve the fallacious man and he asks for what many would imagine can be the final individual he needs to see — Jack Reacher, who arrested the person years in the past in a army case in Kuwait.

Story continues

Reacher promised the suspect that if he ever acquired in hassle once more, he would discover out and are available to make sure he was put away for good.

Reacher meets a protection legal professional dealing with the suspect’s case. Complicating issues, the protection legal professional is the daughter of the district legal professional prosecuting the case.

If “One Shot” sounds acquainted, it was the idea for the 2012 film “Jack Reacher,” starring Tom Cruise within the title function. The plot is identical however the story particulars are so totally different between the e-book and film, readers can benefit from the novel even when they’ve watched the film not too long ago.

Completely different sufficient that I could hunt down the primary Reacher novel, “Killing Ground,” sooner reasonably than later even having considered the Amazon sequence earlier this 12 months.