Jack Reacher #24 – Blue Moon – by Lee Child

Blue Moon by Lee Child

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


In Blue Moon I find that Lee Child’s Jack Reacher has gone from being my favorite “Shane” action style thriller to more of the “OK Corral” type of thrill. In some ways better, and in some ways not quite so good. Blue moon splits up Reacher’s center of focus for meting out justice to the bad guys from a single evil protagonist or group to two ultra nasty sets of underworld groups, the Ukrainians and the Armenians, plus one Wizard of OZ-like mastermind, hiding out until the bitter end in his foxhole. All this extra bad-boy stuff of course makes for more shootouts, cum the later “Mission Impossible ” genres, to make our hero absolutely bullet-proof despite his two-gun suicidal assaults on nasty guys hideouts. So, where am I on this? I like the action, the novel ways that gangs hunt down and dispose of their opponents or traitors, and basics of the plot, but I feel that author Lee Child could have pared down the number of treks around the city blocks on foot or my black windowed sedans for our hero and maybe had him take a shower and change clothes as he pursues his four-night stand romance with one of his co-conspirators. Read it! Enjoy it! But don’t necessarily expect to find your old favorite MP Reacher stepping back into his old hat and uniform.



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