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I don't usually like short stories, and although I love Reacher a lot, I thought about it a bit before buying this book. But then the curiosity to see if Lee Child was able to convey all the sense of Reacher in a few pages instead of a whole story was greater. And I must say that I did well, because the 4 stories that make up this book are able to convey the salient characteristics of Reacher. A Reacher who we meet at his origins, when he is still fifteen and still turns the bases of the marines following the movements of his father, a marine officer who travels around the world following the course of wars. The first of the stories is set in 1974 in Okinawa, where Reacher's family has just moved and where Reacher and his brother Joe are once again facing a new school and new social relationships. Reacher is a teenager, but he already has all the characteristics we know, determined, planner, instinctive, always alert, adaptable, resistant, as well as already being an excellent investigator. In fact, in all the four stories, he uses his deductive abilities and his brute force, especially teased by his aversion to injustice. The descriptions of the action and the environments are very accurate, a little less the dialogues, because Reacher is one of few words and many facts. He is someone who almost never smiles, is never under pressure and loves solitude. In conclusion, I must say that the 4 stories are pleasant to read and even if they do not allow you to enter the stories in an immersive way as an entire book does, they allow you to find an old friend. Three stars.