Book info

• Title No Middle Name
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2017
• Genre Thriller

This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher's past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.

Thoughts

This collection of short stories around our central hero Jack Reacher are a bit hit and miss for me. The first couple are really good - the one with the handbag, and the one with Reacher and Joe as boys getting up to mischief on a new military base. But as they wear on they get a bit predictable, and shorter. There’s one towards the end that is pretty much Reacher discovering trouble in a bar, beating up the bad guys and then leaving town. I mean, we know that by now, we really don’t need to read it again. So mixed reviews, but the first few are definitely worth a read.

Rating: 3 / 5