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	• Bad Luck and Trouble: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels) Lee Child Dell, 2009 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 196 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Far-fetched, boring, and unlikely

Reacher can work miracles. How does he do it? Simple, he is a character in a book, and the author says he does it.

He is good at math, so his pals can send him messages using math concepts. For example, a captive wants to tell him how many people make up the bad guys. So the captive simply finds a prime number to get Reacher's attention, and not just any prime number, but one that the digits add up to the number of bad guys! Then the captive puts that information into a message and Reacher instantly decodes it!

This would be difficult to do as a captive, but it's easy to do as an author.

Reacher is closing in on the bad guys in a location that is almost flat except for one big object -- a helicopter. Since it's dark, the bad guys flood the area with light, so they can see everything in the area except the helicopter. Guess where Reacher hides? The helicopter -- the bad guys don't think to look there.

So, this stuff is easy to write. Five guys are fighting Reacher, so how does Reacher beat them? Easy -- bam, he gets the first guy, pow he gets the second, bonk, he hits the third guy, oof, there goes the fourth guy, crunch, the fifth guy. I bet he could get a hundred guys that way, if the author didn't get too tired.

So, it's a lazy way to make a living -- but it works.

This is my 11th Reacher novel, and I'm about to start the 12th. Why? I'm getting less sure as I read each new one.

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Jack Reacher raises the level of excitement to high - fun!

Bad Luck and Trouble (#11 in the series) goes into overdrive as Jack Reacher solves the brutal murder of a former colleague. Jack Reacher reunites his old team of elite investigators into a wildly exciting assault. Not always probable, tough, macho Jack raises the level of excitement to high - fun. Read and enjoy.

good writing here

I have never had trouble with Child's ability to tell a story. What I don't like is just how this series progresses. You might have a beef with my judging this pretty well crafted story as being a part of a whole Reacher series. Its just that while I can take Reacher saving the day in an epic fashion against a hoard of bad guys, I cant see some nomadic dude wandering across the country ending up in fights equal to James Bond scenarios.

Reacher is obviously 100% crafted on the character of Rambo. In Bad Luck and Trouble, he is Rambo with a mathematical mind worthy of Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. He buys a new shirt twice in this story and changes out of his old one in the store, throwing the old one away. He says that he doesn't like to get bogged down with baggage. Hmmmm, didn't change his underwear for the entire novel? Must have been getting pretty ripe.

I really dont like series' that turn the main character into superheros from one book to the next. Here Reacher is not quite a superhero, but he has the ability to be walking down a very busy street talking with his friends and is able to react to the sound of a muffled round being chambered 20-30 feet behind him.

Silly timing starts off the book. One of his old army buddies puts 1030 dollars into his account at a bank. Reacher could have gone the next couple of months without checking that balance.

Reacher has these seven old army friends that this story revolves around. Their slogan is "You do not mess with the special investigators". They all are willing to drop everything in order to help each other out. All seven of Reachers friends talk in worshipful observance of the Special Investigators to their friends and families. Why is it that in this, the 11th Reacher book we hear about them for the first time? I know I know, this is a little out of line, but what if it turns out that one of Reachers old jobs was as a stock analyst and he goes and investigates a huge money laundering scheme in the next book. Using his old friends who were once everything to Reacher before he went into the army. I mean, I hate it when an author just lands a huge chunk of important past into a series like Child does here. Especially 11 books in.

Bad luck and trouble always finds Reacher. I seem to remember a story where it started off as Reacher hitchhiking and some gang kills the lady who picked him up???Something close to that. I mean, give me a break, one guy just cant step in so many piles of dung.

In this story... I AM VERY SORRY (but I cant get into who the bad guys are, its revealed way too far into the book), the bad guys in this book are too insanely impossible. Trust me on this, its almost laugh out loud bad. Suffice it to say that once again Reacher saves the USA from disaster. He sleeps with a woman in a very cold removed manner (every reacher book i have read treats women like a commodity). And he lives up to his very high Rambo personal ethical standards.

THe writing - 5 stars, the story - 3 stars. The series at this point, 1 star. If these were stand alone thrillers they would be a lot better.

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Always An Exceptional Read

Lee Child has not disappointed me yet. He is an exceptional storyteller who weaves a terrifc yarn that keeps me turning the pages and savoring each word. When it ends, I start looking forward to the next book.

From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night. On the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life and plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends . . . and the people he once trusted with his life.

Reacher is the ultimate loner?no phone, no ties, no address. But a woman from his old military unit has found him using a signal only the eight members of their elite team would know. Then she tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his team, scrambling to unravel the sudden disappearance of two other comrades. But Reacher won?t give up?because in a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they?d better be ready for what comes right back at them.

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