Book info

• Title The Secret
• Author Lee Child
• Year 2023
• Genre Thriller

Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher, recently demoted from Major, is assigned as the Army's representative. If he gets a result, great. If not, he's a convenient fall guy. Reacher may be an exceptional military investigator, but office politics aren't what gets him up in the morning. As he races to identify a cold-blooded killer and uncover a secret that stretches back 23 years, he must navigate around his new partners. Will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way... or his way?

Thoughts

I’m really not sure about this Reacher book, it just entirely flowed past me without really making any impact. It has all the traditional Reacher elements, although this was one of the prequels during his military career, rather than his more modern day wanderings. There was a plot to uncover, some people to trust and some to investigate, a handy woman or two to flirt with, and all winding up to a big showdown and a satisfying ending. What’s next?

Rating: 2 / 5