FICTION
Released: July 20, 1998
"Another Rogue Warrior meets Die Hard with all the typical over-the-top plotting, blood-splattering ultraviolence, lock-jawed heroics and the dumbest villains this side of Ruby Ridge."
Furiously suspenseful, but brain-dead second volume in Child's gratuitously derivative Jack Reacher action series (Killing Floor, 1997).
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 1999
"Unabashedly mindless but fun: Reacher swashbuckles with the best of them."
A good guy outsmarts a venomous viper, outguns a gazillion villains—and falls in love with a nice gal.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 2000
"Even readers who identify the criminal, motive, and modus operandi early on (and many readers will) can plan to stay up long past bedtime and do some serious hyperventilating toward the end."
Soldier-turned-soldier-of-fortune Jack Reacher goes after a serial killer in a conventionally but nonetheless deeply satisfying whodunit.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2001
"Relentlessly suspenseful and unexpectedly timely: just the thing for Dick Cheney's bedside reading wherever he's keeping himself these days."
When the newly elected Vice President's life is threatened, the Secret Service runs to nomadic soldier-of-fortune Jack Reacher (
Echo Burning, 2001, etc.) in this razor-sharp update of
The Day of the Jackal and
In the Line of Fire that's begging to be filmed.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2001
"Child builds tension to unbearable extremes, then blows it out in sharply choreographed violence, even if his plot has more holes in it than the shirt Reacher uses for target practice. "
Smashingly suspenseful fifth in Child's series (
Running Blind, 2000, etc.) lands this British author's rootless, laconic action hero in southwest Texas, where a femme fatale lures him into a family squabble that inevitably turns violent.
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FICTION
Released: May 13, 2003
"Wily plotting, swift pacing, mordant wit: Child is one skillful writer."
