This is the 15th Jack Reacher novel produced by Lee Child and the character is as fresh and readable as he was in his first outing.

The stories revolve around Jack Reacher, an ex-military policeman who travels around America righting wrongs using his accumulated knowledge of fighting bad guys. This time he is in Nebraska, helping out a small community that is ruled with a rod of iron, by a family who run a trucking business. Most of the locals are farmers and their lives and livelihoods are controlled by the Duncan family, a truly nasty bunch. Reacher comes across this difficult situation by chance, or so he believes. He travels without the encumbrance of luggage, romantic attachments or any real destination, moving from state to state without prior purpose, and takes each day and situation at it presents itself.

As the story unfolds, Reacher uses his many and varied skills, mostly learned during his years in the army, to root out the bad guys and give the people back their lives, with the odd dead body along the way. There are some Italians, Arabs and Iranians thrown in to the mix, but most of the bad guys are locals. They have terrorized the population for decades but Reacher decides that it is time for them to stop their evil ways.

I am a great fan of Lee Child's work and this book is no exception.

Happy Monday to all!! We are starting off the week with a huge novel, Lee Childs Worth Dying For. I really enjoyed the spirited discussion’s that some of us had after I posted the Lee Child discusses Jack Reacher vs. Joe Pike you tube video. Excuse my surprise and dismay as so many of you immediately jumped into the Joe Pike camp, for shame. My question is, why just limit the question to Joe Pike? Why isn’t anyone mentioning Mitch Rapp? I think the list could be very long and very interesting, but why argue a moot point?
Worth Dying For is the fifteenth novel in the series for those counting. Here is a brief synopsis:” Call it the Heartland or the Bread Basket of the World, but whatever you label it, rural Nebraska evokes only positive images for most of us. For Jack Reacher though, cornfield country leaves a bad taste. While drifting through the region, he crosses paths with the Duncans, a notorious clan who rule the whole county by sheer terror. Refusing to back down, the ex-MP bursts in overdrive when he begins to connect this Midwest mafia with crimes past, present, and planned. Lee Child's standalone follow-up to 61 Hours will quicken your pulse and keep you up late.”
I have to get this part out of the way and not spoil anything for those that have not read it yet. For whatever reason, there have been a number of novels using the same theme as the backdrop for the evil our hero must thwart. Having read a number of them I feel that Lee Child handled the subject in the best manner: put it out there for us, recognition of the grossness of it, and yet used far less words and painted a very vivid picture for us. I admired the way he had Reacher handle it with the townspeople and I like the way he went about bringing justice for all.
If I have been fortunate and you have been following my ramblings at all, you know I like characters and I like series. Lee Child has put 15 Reacher novels, each one of them incredibly good, with a tremendous quality to each and every one. I am not comparing him or his character to anyone but there are very few in the stratus he resides in. There are very few characters that have had that many novels written about them, let alone novels written by the author about any character. My point is that Lee Child doesn’t just mail it in and cruise for a few novels, he doesn’t just put Reacher in a lame plotline, he doesn’t surround him with anything lame, and that my friends is a breath of fresh air in this day and age. Quality, quality, quality and that translates into some of the best reading of the year, year after year after year. I think you know where I stand on this five star, kick a%$ Jack Reacher read. This novel for any reader is Worth Dying For. Hey when is the next one because for me it can’t come soon enough.
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