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No Plan B (Jack Reacher, #27)
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NO PLAN B by Lee CHILD and Andrew CHILD
Published: 10/25/2022 by Random House Publishing
368 pages
Your next guilty pleasure has arrived. The voice of our beloved iconic hero, Jack Reacher, lives on in another action packed suspenseful thriller penned by Andrew Child ( with an unidentified extent of help by Lee Child). In this 27th novel in the series, Reacher’s inimitable style of conflict resolution with action and violence in support of the challenged victim shines on with mystery and intrigue. This can be devoured as a stand-alone, as the necessary backstory is seamlessly laid in. Reacher in his typical nomadic style, is traveling by bus and hitchhiking and arrives in the small town of Gerrardsville, Colorado to visit a Civll War museum.
Reacher witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a bus by a furtive man in a grey hoodie, and then snaking his hand under her crushed body to retrieve her purse. Reacher pursues the man into an alley, confronts him in his usual unabashed manner, easily takes his gun away, spins him around and forcefully pushes him into the adjacent alley wall with resultant broken nose and freely flowing blood from multiple gashes. An accomplice intervenes, allowing both to escape, as Reacher has an unfortunate encounter with a collapsing fire escape. As Reacher returns to the scene of the crime, he learns from a detective that the women’s death is considered a suicide based upon other witnesses statements. Reacher was able to retrieve the woman’s purse in the alley, and checked out the contents� hoping to found out why she was killed. He found a driver’s license for Angela St. Vrain with an address in Winson, Mississippi�. a black and white photo of Angela with a little girl (perhaps three years old) …a laminated card on a blue lanyard identifying her as an employee of the Minerva Correctional Facility in Winson � and a letter size envelope addressed to Danny Peel containing a photograph/ mug shot of a young man ( noteworthy was a missing left earlobe and a scar across his neck) and some papers outlining the life story of one, Anton Begovic, escalating from petty theft at age eighteen and other offenses resulting in incarceration, and an eventual appeal and the judges order to release Begovic…this coming Friday. This declaration of a suicide does not sit well with Reacher. He knows what he saw and begins his own investigation. He quickly uncovers a connection of Angela with a local man, Sam Roth, who somewhat improbably died of a heart attack shortly before her arrival. Sam’s ex-wife Hannah Hampton is able to shed further light on the unlikely coincidences, and soon both embark on a road-trip to Winson to further investigate the mystery behind these injustices. Reacher cannot help but apply his unique investigative skills to right the wrong, that apparently evades the local law enforcement agencies.
The Child team proves to be master storytellers as they weave into the narrative two other sub-plots that move parallel to the main plot until they all collide and coalesce into an unexpected and explosive denouement. We learn about fifteen year old Jed, while living with foster parents, learns that his birth mother is dying of stage four pancreatic cancer and on her death bed finally tells him the truth about his father. Suddenly he departs from Los Angeles, intent on making a long journey that will necessitate many Greyhound buses. At the same time
Lev Emerson, who specializes in making accidents happen, to solve other people’s problems. Learns his twenty-two year old son has died, while in rehab �.. his liver and other body organs have failed. His next mission is that of revenge� for those he holds responsible.
There is obviously something sinister behind the machinations of those running the Minerva Correctional Facility �. How is it related to the release of an innocent man? How will Jed and Lev eventually find themselves in Winson, Mississippi? I certainly enjoyed the ingenuity how the many moving parts of this narrative explosively collided to form an enjoyable denouement.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for providing an Uncorrected Proof in exchange for an honest review.
Published: 10/25/2022 by Random House Publishing
368 pages
Your next guilty pleasure has arrived. The voice of our beloved iconic hero, Jack Reacher, lives on in another action packed suspenseful thriller penned by Andrew Child ( with an unidentified extent of help by Lee Child). In this 27th novel in the series, Reacher’s inimitable style of conflict resolution with action and violence in support of the challenged victim shines on with mystery and intrigue. This can be devoured as a stand-alone, as the necessary backstory is seamlessly laid in. Reacher in his typical nomadic style, is traveling by bus and hitchhiking and arrives in the small town of Gerrardsville, Colorado to visit a Civll War museum.
Reacher witnesses a woman being pushed in front of a bus by a furtive man in a grey hoodie, and then snaking his hand under her crushed body to retrieve her purse. Reacher pursues the man into an alley, confronts him in his usual unabashed manner, easily takes his gun away, spins him around and forcefully pushes him into the adjacent alley wall with resultant broken nose and freely flowing blood from multiple gashes. An accomplice intervenes, allowing both to escape, as Reacher has an unfortunate encounter with a collapsing fire escape. As Reacher returns to the scene of the crime, he learns from a detective that the women’s death is considered a suicide based upon other witnesses statements. Reacher was able to retrieve the woman’s purse in the alley, and checked out the contents� hoping to found out why she was killed. He found a driver’s license for Angela St. Vrain with an address in Winson, Mississippi�. a black and white photo of Angela with a little girl (perhaps three years old) …a laminated card on a blue lanyard identifying her as an employee of the Minerva Correctional Facility in Winson � and a letter size envelope addressed to Danny Peel containing a photograph/ mug shot of a young man ( noteworthy was a missing left earlobe and a scar across his neck) and some papers outlining the life story of one, Anton Begovic, escalating from petty theft at age eighteen and other offenses resulting in incarceration, and an eventual appeal and the judges order to release Begovic…this coming Friday. This declaration of a suicide does not sit well with Reacher. He knows what he saw and begins his own investigation. He quickly uncovers a connection of Angela with a local man, Sam Roth, who somewhat improbably died of a heart attack shortly before her arrival. Sam’s ex-wife Hannah Hampton is able to shed further light on the unlikely coincidences, and soon both embark on a road-trip to Winson to further investigate the mystery behind these injustices. Reacher cannot help but apply his unique investigative skills to right the wrong, that apparently evades the local law enforcement agencies.
The Child team proves to be master storytellers as they weave into the narrative two other sub-plots that move parallel to the main plot until they all collide and coalesce into an unexpected and explosive denouement. We learn about fifteen year old Jed, while living with foster parents, learns that his birth mother is dying of stage four pancreatic cancer and on her death bed finally tells him the truth about his father. Suddenly he departs from Los Angeles, intent on making a long journey that will necessitate many Greyhound buses. At the same time
Lev Emerson, who specializes in making accidents happen, to solve other people’s problems. Learns his twenty-two year old son has died, while in rehab �.. his liver and other body organs have failed. His next mission is that of revenge� for those he holds responsible.
There is obviously something sinister behind the machinations of those running the Minerva Correctional Facility �. How is it related to the release of an innocent man? How will Jed and Lev eventually find themselves in Winson, Mississippi? I certainly enjoyed the ingenuity how the many moving parts of this narrative explosively collided to form an enjoyable denouement.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House Publishing for providing an Uncorrected Proof in exchange for an honest review.
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