Book info

• Title 61 Hours
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2010
• Genre Thriller

Hour Sixty-One. Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher, hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too, like facing the arctic cold without a coat. Hour Thirty-One. A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice.If she's going to live to testify, she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her. Hour Zero. Has Reacher finally met his match? He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

Thoughts

Reacher finds himself seemingly involved in a random bus accident that leaves him stranded in a town, and he gets involved in protecting an elderly witness to a crime. Of course there’s much more to it than that, and I enjoyed the process of trying to figure out who’s doing what and why. Reacher’s occasional phone calls to the mysterious Major Turner are fascinating as well. The ending is a surprise, partly as we don’t know what’s happened to Reacher (although there are many more books in the series!) but also because it wasn’t as successful as he hoped and you just know he’s going to blame himself in future.

Rating: 4 / 5