Otherwise, Child writes with a hand as strong and steady as steel. The reader expects the other shoe to drop-for Reacher to be revealed as an undercover agent, or some such but it never does. This combination of events is so unbelievably convenient that it almost overwhelms the book's solid writing. Downsized out of the military, Reacher has cutting-edge investigative and killing skills that come in handy the moment he learns of his brother's murder. Indeed, when he's arrested in a local diner for being a conspicuously mysterious stranger, Reacher tells the detective who interviews him that he dropped off the bus to investigate the death of Blind Blake, a guitar player murdered in Margrave 60 years ago. Reacher doesn't know about his brother's death or suspect his presence in the town. Treasury official, just happens to have been murdered a few hours earlier. Out of sheer restlessness and rootlessness, 36-year-old ex-military policeman Jack Reacher persuades a Greyhound bus driver to make an unscheduled stop in Margrave, the small Georgia town where Reacher's brother, a U.S. Although the tale is built around a coincidence as big as the author's talent, beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting enliven this taut and tough-minded first novel by British TV writer Child.
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