Book info

• Title The Affair
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2011
• Genre Thriller

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or is she trying not to find the killer? Set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, The Affair marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him?​

Thoughts

This Reacher prequel takes us back to the events directly preceding the first book in the series. For some readers, this must have been quite the journey back in time, but for me it was only a few months ago that I was reading that first book so it was relatively fresh in my mind. Reacher, still in the military, is sent undercover to keep an eye on a murder investigation but of course he ends up getting directly involved and disobeying orders to do the right thing. We find out the circumstances behind Reacher’s exit from the army, and it made me quite sad in the end. But that happened so that the series we know and love could exist so on we go!

Rating: 3 / 5