Ten best books so far this year

Ten best books so far this year


We are six month into 2012 now with the thousands of books being published every day here is my perception of what the best ten books are so far this year.

1-3-One is a easy pick Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 
Everyone is talking about the 50 shades trilogy at home, the office,online everywhere the reason because it is different fresh and controversial.Those are the exact reasons i loved the series about a entrepreneur and a innocent college girl falling in love and he is heavily into to bondage it is a love story, a porn story, a romance story bringing out the fascination of bondage to the forefront of the best sellers list, as all three books hit number one.I love these books there different fresh and naughty and they make you think they are very well written you will be deep inside the characters after just a few chapters.

Fifty Shades Trilogy: Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed 3-volume Boxed Set



4-  Oh,Baby ! by Tia Mowry

We all know Tia Mowry from the TV show sister sister the young cute twin with quick one liners.Now Tia has grown up, she is brilliant beautiful still has her witty one liners.I don't know if she wrote this while she was pregnant or after maybe she just took really good notes but she remembers everything. I love this book because it is fresh by a new writer and the funniest book i ever read.Tia holds back nothing in this candid descriptive tale of her pregnancy and you will not be able to hold back the laughs as we all learn the pains the discomfort the embarrassing moments of being pregnant.As you read this book you can just see it as a sitcom with Tia in the lead, it really is entertaining with the success of this book i am sure Tia will be writing more about raising kids she is a great talent and a great story teller.There is also a great learning factor in this book that every new mom or soon to be mom should read,and every man should be required to read this book so he can understand exactly what women go through when there pregnant.Read it you will love it!

Oh, Baby!: Pregnancy Tales and Advice from One Hot Mama to Another



5-Dust devils by Roger Smith
I love a low down dirty flawed character book,Roger can make a hero out of a Hell's Angle or a goat out of the local town sheriff he is a writers writer and a avid readers writer.He is so talented when you read his books you can feel the Cape Town heat on your back smell the odor of death in the air lots of twists underhanded dealings and low life ruckus the action of action books

Dust Devils



6-Monday mornings by Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, America's doctor, has created a page-turner. It's an exhilarating medical thriller with the sympathy, hope, enthusiasm and desire that outline Sanjay. Five  surgeons at Chealsea Hospital take the skills and talents to the limit to save the most seriously ill patients and extend there life. It is Monday Mornings that presents a distinctive look at the real method in which surgeons understand - through their flaws. It is Monday Mornings when, if you're fortunate, you have a opportunity at redemption.This is the Doctors E>R General hospital and Dr.Kildar all rolled up into one fantastic book.CNN's chief medical correspondent goes fiction after two non fiction best sellers.

Monday Mornings: A Novel



7- Capture by Roger Smith
Roger Smith again makes Cape Town the most frightful city on earth with corruption, murder and mystery and lies,this book is sure to be a block buster movie as it is brilliant one of the best written books i have ever read truly is a book you will not put down till you finish it,live this master piece no way you can not like this book i promise.

Capture

8- Black List: A Thriller (Scot Harvath) 
This is a new release i haven't  written the review yet but it is amazing action thriller by one of the best writers of today.A stunning masterwork of action, intrigue, and ingenious plot twists.

Black List (Scot Harvath)



9-New York To Dallas J D Robb

Some times i think Nora Roberts does her best work under her alias J D Robb.My love affair with Nora Roberts go up and down like the worlds longest roller coaster since she has 170 million books in print she almost writes them faster than i can read them sometimes to fast ,yet some of  my favorite books  were penned by her also.But like i always said because i like a few of your books does not mean i will like them all. Nora writes under another name called J.D.Robb to put out a detective series with Eve Dallas as the super romantic super smart star of the series about NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas .

New York to Dallas (In Death, No. 33)

Capture by Roger Smith review

Capture by Roger Smith review
 You do not read a Roger Smith book you live it

6 months ago i apologized to Roger Smith for not reading any of his books,i then stated Dust devils as one of the best books i had ever read,i then i read wake up dead and i knew this was one of the greatest suspense writers of our generation.A few days ago Robert sent me a personal twit telling me his new book Capture was available at amazon e books immediately i downloaded it and began reading my 5th Roger Smith thriller.

One thing about books with hero's bigger than life is they usually are squeaky clean tough guys with high morals ,big guns and at worst a heavy sexual appetite as in James bond ,Jack Reacher and many James Patterson thrillers.The thing i notice most about Smiths books is each book gets better with Dust devils having been his best work up till now.


I love books that are different, in this day when so many books are similar with ,matching hero's in the bond image,or the ,mass produced love stories from Nora Roberts who writes books faster than i can read them and some of them such as The three fates i thought were amazing.that is the reason i loved Fifty Shades of Grey a erotic love story with a lot of bondage thrown in but had a intense love story line because it was different someone had the balls to put a bondage love story on the best seller list a trilogy, all three hit number one so i guess i am not the only one who likes something new and different.


All that brings me to this point the reason Roger Smith's books are so different, so intense is the hero is never squeaky clean, he mite be just one step away from being the bad guy, maybe a drug addict or a drunk every single one of the characters in smith's books have flaws not only making them interesting but making them  understandable to us flawed readers.Roger does an amazing job of a taking flawed hero's making them so likable you feel like there your friends or neighbors.I love down and dirty books about poverty rebellion and survival and that is what Capture is all about.This guy's writing is so good you can smell the stench of the swamps,feel the Capetown heat or smell the pot in the background you do not read a Roger Smith book you live it as if your there with him.


Roger Smith again makes Cape Town the most frightful city on earth with corruption, murder and mystery and lies,this book is sure to be a block buster movie as it is brilliant one of the best written books i have ever read truly is a book you will not put down till you finish it,live this master piece no way you can not like this book i promise.


This is very new i think it's only on kindle right now Capture



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Daniel Silva's The Fallen Angel

Daniel Silva's The Fallen Angel

Daniel Silva author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, Moscow Rules, The Defector, The Rembrandt Affair and Portrait of a Spy. He is married to NBC NewsToday correspondent Jamie Gangel; they live in Washington, D.C.,


Silva is the master of intrigue and suspense is among the top 5 authors in this category.i loved a death in Vienna .His fictional character Gabriel Allon—art restorer, spy, and assassin—returns in a spellbinding new thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling master of intrigue and suspense is right up there with Jack Reacher and a couple of other fictional spies that keep returning to the best seller list.Due out July 17 this book may be pre ordered .


'Allon is the 21st century James Bond - stylishly paced, refined and brillient., Daily Mail 'Sexily brooding Allon... must be the most famous superspy not played by Daniel Craig' Daily Telegraph 'In true Bauer fashion, shoot-outs, kidnappings and international terror plots follow Gabriel Allon wherever he goes' USA Today 'Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of the plot, People



                                             



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After narrowly surviving his last operation, Gabriel Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, has taken refuge behind the walls of the Vatican, where he is restoring one of Caravaggio’s greatest masterpieces. But while working early one morning in the conservation lab, he is summoned to St. Peter’s Basilica by his friend and occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati, the all-powerful private secretary to his Holiness Pope Paul VII. The body of a beautiful woman, a curator from the antiquities department, lies smashed and broken beneath Michelangelo’s magnificent dome. The Vatican police suspect suicide, though Gabriel, with his restorer’s eye and flawless memory, believes otherwise. So, it seems, does Donati. But the monsignor is fearful that a public inquiry might inflict another scandal on the Church, and so he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents and experience to quietly pursue the truth—with one important caveat.

“Rule number one at the Vatican,” Donati said. “Don’t ask too many questions.”

Gabriel soon learns that the dead woman had uncovered a dangerous secret—a secret that threatens a global criminal enterprise that is looting timeless treasures of antiquity and selling them to the highest bidder. But there is more to this network than just greed. A  mysterious operative, an old enemy out for vengeance, is plotting an unthinkable act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. Once again, Gabriel must return to the ranks of his old intelligence service—and place himself, and those he holds dear, on the razor’s edge of danger.

An intoxicating blend of art, intrigue, and history, The Fallen Angel moves swiftly from the cloistered chambers of the Vatican, to the glamorous ski slopes of St. Moritz, to the graceful avenues of Berlin and Vienna—and, finally, to a shocking climax beneath the world’s most sacred and contested parcel of land. Each setting in this extraordinary novel is rendered with the care of an Old Master, as are the spies, lovers, priests, and thieves who inhabit its pages. It is a story of faith and of the destructive power of secrets. And it is an all-too-timely reminder that those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

Reference http://danielsilvabooks.com/

11th Hour BY James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

I liked most of the Women's murder club books but this one may very well be the best of the lot Patterson is the master of mystery. Another fast paced story from James Patterson as we rejoined with the four women of the "Women's Murder Club" in this sequel "11th Hour". In 11th Hour , we find out that Lindsey Boxer is pregnant with hubby Joe's baby , Cindy is engaged to Rich Conklin , Yuki is sleeping with Lindsey's boss Jackson and of course Claire is just being Claire.In Most of James's novels there is a couple of twists and usually two main story lines . The first story line is that somebody is killing all the hoodlums on the street mostly Drug Dealers  but when one of the dealers turns out to have been an Undercover FBI agent , it is discovered that the killer known as "Revenge" could very well be not only a cop killer but a cop and the top of the suspicious list is Lindsey and Rich's ex Jacobi, Can the pair prove Jacobi's innocent and track down the real killer ? The other tale is that in one of the Richest estates - a couple of skulls were found and then ultimately it is uncovered that the backyard is like Skull ecstasy as a total seven skulls are located . Who is the mysterious killer and where is the rest of the bodies ? If solving these cases weren't hard enough , Lindsey is having issues and fears that she may lose her job and she has no-one to talk to when a female co-worker of Joe's lets her on a little secret relationship she had with him.
What happens when the clock strikes Eleven ?

                  

11th Hour (Women's Murder Club)
Find out in Eleventh Hour by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

Here's a exert from Pattersons blog http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_11thHour.php#excerpts
A GOOD-LOOKING MAN in his forties sat in the back row of the auditorium at the exclusive Morton Academy of Music. He was wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and a snappy striped tie. His features were good, although not remarkable, but behind the blue tint of his glasses, he had very kind brown eyes.
He had come to the recital alone and had a passing thought about his wife and children at home, but then he refocused his attention on someone else’s child.
Her name was Noelle Smith. She was eleven, a cute little girl and a very talented young violinist who had just performed a Bach gavotte with distinction.
Noelle knew she’d done well. She took a deep bow with a flourish, grinning as two hundred parents in the audience clapped and whistled.
As the applause died down, a gray-haired man in the third row popped up from his seat, buttoned his jacket, stepped out into the aisle, and headed toward the lobby.
That man was Chaz Smith, Noelle’s father.
The man in the blue suit waited several seconds, then followed Smith, staying back a few paces, walking along the cream-tiled corridor, then taking a right past the pint-size water fountain and into the short spur of a hallway that ended at the men’s room.
After entering the men’s room, he looked beneath the stalls and saw Chaz Smith’s Italian loafers under the door at the far right. Otherwise, the room was empty. In a minute or two, the room would fill.
The man in the blue suit moved quickly, picking up the large metal trash can next to the sink and placing it so that it blocked the exit.
Then he called out, “Mr. Smith? I’m sorry to disturb you, but it’s about your car.”
“What? Who is that?”
“Your car, Mr. Smith. You left your lights on.”
The man in the blue suit removed his semiauto .22-caliber Ruger from his jacket pocket, screwed on the suppressor. Then he took out a tan-colored plastic bag, the kind you get at the supermarket, and pulled the bag over his gun.
Smith swore. Then the toilet flushed and Smith opened the door. His gray hair was mussed, white powder rimmed his nostrils, and his face showed fierce indignation.
“You’re sure it’s my car?” he said. “My wife will kill me if I’m not back in my seat for the finale.”
“I’m really sorry to do this to your wife and child. Noelle played beautifully.”
Smith looked puzzled—then he knew. He dropped the vial of coke, and his hand dove under his jacket. Too late.
The man in the blue suit lifted his bag-covered gun, pulled the trigger, and shot Chaz Smith twice between the eyes.
Copyright © 2012 by James Patterson Available in kindle and nook

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Jack Reacher novels in order with story lines

    Jack Reacher can be found in the following books by Lee Child:
Killing Floor (March 1997)
The story is a riveting one, focusing on Jack's involvement in a crime in a small town in Georgia. Boy, does he make a mistake in deciding to stop off in this little burg, just to find out about a blue singing legend named Blind Blake. But, what a story unfolds. The dialogue is brisk, economical, and very involving! Along with Jack, there are a ton of characters that are so remarkably fleshed out and described, you would think this was a true crime story!
read more Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)

Exert chapter 1

I was arrested in Eno's diner. At twelve o'clock. I was eating eggs and drinking coffee. A late breakfast, not lunch. I was wet and tired after a long walk in heavy rain. All the way from the highway to the edge of town. 

The diner was small, but bright and clean. Brand-new, built to resemble a converted railroad car. Narrow, with a long lunch counter on one side and a kitchen bumped out back. Booths lining the opposite wall. A doorway where the center booth would be. 

I was in a booth, at a window, reading somebody's abandoned newspaper about the campaign for a President I didn't vote for last time and wasn't going to vote for this time. Outside, the rain had stopped but the glass was still pebbled with bright drops. I saw the police cruisers pull into the gravel lot. They were moving fast and crunched to a stop. Light bars flashing and popping. Red and blue light in the raindrops on my window. Doors burst open, policemen jumped out. Two from each car, weapons ready. Two revolvers, two shotguns. This was heavy stuff. One revolver and one shotgun ran to the back. One of each rushed the door.
 read more http://www.leechild.com/killingfloor1.php


Die Trying (July 1998)
If you haven't read Killing Floor I would recommend doing so before you read this book as it provides a basis for Reacher's character realism. As before the main character is Jack Reacher, ex military policeman and all round superhero. Reacher is intelligent, deductive and physically prodigous, so if you like heroes of the elite variety then this is the character for you.
 read more Die Trying (Jack Reacher, No. 2)

A Chicago street in bright sunshine. Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere, meets an attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches, alone. Naturally he stops to offer her a steadying arm and then they turn together—to face twin handguns held level and motionless and aimed straight at their stomachs.

Chained to the woman, locked in a dark, stifling van racing 2,000 miles across America, Reacher needs to know who he's dealing with. The kidnappers are saying nothing and his companion claims to be Holly Johnson, FBI agent. She's fierce enough and tough enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote, hostile destination, they will need to act as a team and trust each other, pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds more at stake.


Tripwire (June 1999)
In a Jack Reacher book expect exciting action scenes, plenty of fisticuffs, and a large dose of graphic violence. "Tripwire" is no exception. The book is an excellent read. Reacher finds himself caught up in the investigation of a star helicopter pilot missing in action in Vietnam and assumed dead. The boy's parents, in grief for thirty years, send a PI to find Reacher, only to have the PI killed hours after meeting with Reacher. From that point on, the plot twists and turns, always sustaining your interest. Although the ending is easily predictable from the start, it's fun readng
 read more Tripwire (Jack Reacher, No. 3)

In Tripwire, Child pits ex-military policeman Jack Reacher against his most deadly and merciless adversary yet. Kirkus Reviews noted that "Reacher swashbuckles with the best of them" and Booklist called Tripwire "edgy, exciting reading."

Jack Reacher washes up in the Florida Keys with his savings running out; he spends his days digging pools and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club. But a private investigator intrudes upon his tropical refuge, seeking Reacher out. When he discovers the PI's lifeless beaten body lying in the street, Reacher heads north to determine who is trying to find him and why.

Tracing the dead man's trail to New York, Reacher discovers the PI was working for Reacher's former commanding officer, mentor and close friend Leon Garber. Reacher teams up with Garber's daughter Jodie, a sharp Wall Street lawyer, to find out why Leon needed Reacher's help and they find themselves embroiled in a life-threatening search for the truth—and the deeper they dig, the more dangerous and twisted their path becomes.

In this third novel featuring Jack Reacher, author Lee Child masterfully intertwines the domains of the underworld and the bureaucracy of the U.S. Army. Reacher and Jodie uncover 30 years of deceit—and their love for each other—in a thriller that reaches its heart-stopping, plot twisting climax on the 88th floor of the World Trade Center.



Running Blind (published as The Visitor in the UK and Australia) (April 2000)
Reacher is the suspect in a bizarre series of murders in which ex-army women (who left the force because of a variety of sexual harassment cases) are left naked in their bathtubs filled with green army paint. The killer leaves no clues and what is even more bizarre, they have no idea how the women died.
read more Running Blind (Jack Reacher, No. 4)

It's tough being a high-flying woman in the Army. Very tough. When Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook are found dead in their own homes—in baths filled with Army-issue camouflage paint, their bodies completely unmarked—Jack Reacher is under suspicion. He knew them both—and he knows that they both left the Army under dubious circumstances, both victims of sexual harassment. A former U.S. military policeman, a loner and a drifter, he matches the psychological profile prepared by the FBI, and is arrested by ambitious Special Agent, Julia Lamarr.

But when the body of another woman, Sergeant Lorraine Stanley, is discovered, killed with similar precision, Reacher is released. Everyone fears there is a serial killer on the loose. But the FBI have strong persuasive powers, and before long Reacher finds himself heavily involved in the murder investigation. What have these women got in common and why is someone out to do them harm?

In this magnificent and utterly ingenious thriller, Reacher once again saves the day, proving that he is a unique hero, capable of holding his own in any situation. Running Blind confirms that Lee Child is more than capable of challenging the established names currently writing in this genre



Echo Burning (ISBN 0-515-13331-0) (April 2001)
A former Army major assigned to the Military Police, Jack has been aimlessly roaming the United States through several novels, and attracting big trouble in each one. In ECHO BURNING, he's hitchhiked into sunburnt West Texas where he's given a ride by Carmen Greer, who's cruising the highways on the lookout for a Tough Guy. Carmen lives with her young daughter, Ellie, on an arid ranch with her hateful brother-in-law and mother-in-law while her husband, Sloop, serves time in a federal pen for tax evasion.
read more Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)

Without Fail (April 2002)
Lee Child's books get better and better with each addition to the series. WITHOUT FAIL is a real page-turner with plenty of excitement all through it. Child has not only made a detailed study of his character, but he has delved into the workings of the military and government. Yes, on occasion Reacher and Neagley sometimes seem to have superhuman powers, but the readers will willingly forgive those moments to cheer on the heroes of this story
 read more Without Fail (Jack Reacher, No. 6)

Persuader (April 2003)
In "Persuader," Jack Reacher has the jolting discovery of evil nemesis Ouinn's existence, whom Reacher thought he had eliminated a decade ago. To be ultimately rid of Quinn, Reacher faces a dual challenge -- penetrate an organized crime operation and aid the Federal government in the rescue of one of its agents.
Persuader (Jack Reacher, No. 7)

The Enemy (Prequel, time frame occurs before Killing Floor) (April 2004)
Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war–against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
read more The Enemy: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)

One Shot (ISBN 0-385-33668-3) (April 2005)
This is the best of the Reacher books
The story gets off to a hot start when a sniper mows down (with six rifle shots) five random people innocently leaving their place of work. The guy seems to have expertly planned his attack, yet leaves behind such a wealth of forensic evidence that even a CSI rookie could have followed the trail and snagged the killer, as did the local Indiana small city cops just hours later that night. The arrested man, James Barr, who turns out to be a Gulf War Army sniper, says almost nothing, but finally denies his guilt and asks for Jack Reacher. Reacher hears about the deed on national TV and sets out for the town before he knew he had been tangentially involved. Meanwhile Barr gets almost killed in prison overnight and is in a coma in the hospital. When Reacher shows up and sees the case from the police side, he is also convinced it's open and shut -- and we're left wondering where this is all going. Answer -- 
read more One Shot: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)

The Hard Way (ISBN 0-385-33669-1) (May 2006)
I'm a big Lee Child fan. As far as I'm concerned, the tight-lipped, human arsenal Jack Reacher is the most compelling figure in contemporary escapist thriller fiction. So when I tell you that "The Hard Way" is the best novel of its kind to hit the shelves in the last few years, I'll admit I'm biased.
read more The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)

Bad Luck and Trouble (ISBN 0-385-34055-9) (April 2)007
In "Bad Luck and Trouble," Reacher has a reunion of sorts with three of his buddies from the army, Frances Neagley, Karla Dixon, and David O'Donnell. They reunite because of a tragic event: Calvin Franz, who worked with them years ago in the military police, was thrown out of a helicopter in the California desert after suffering unspeakable torture. The victim left behind a wife and little boy. Three other MPs from the same special investigations unit, Jorge Sanchez, Tony Swan, and Manuel Orozco, have disappeared, as well. Reacher and his remaining ex-colleagues band together to find out what happened to these men and why. He is also plotting revenge: "There are dead men walking, as of right now. You don't throw my friends out of helicopters and live to tell the tale.
read more Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, No. 11)

Nothing to Lose (ISBN 978-0593057025) (March 2008)
After reading about 8 of Child's Jack Reacher books, I finally found a dud. It started out thrilling, as expected, but quickly become almost boring. I can not believe I am typing those words.
read more Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12)

Gone Tomorrow (April 2009)
There is more than ample violence and gore to please the loyal Reacher fan, the plotting is tight, and Reacher continues to be fun to decipher as he analyzes people and events. As usual, Jack Reacher is NOT a character you want mad at you or to seek vengeance against you. And Child does a fasacinating job of describing Manhatten and the underbelly environs of NYC.
read more Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13)

Hours61  (March 2010)
The book is set in freezing South Dakota in the middle of a snowstorm. Reacher has hitched a ride on a bus tour of senior citizens. When the bus crashes, he finds himself in Bolton, the location for a recently built prison and headquarters for a gang of meth dealers. A drug dealer is in prison, facing trial, and the key witness is under police protection. The deputy chief of police asks Reacher to help him figure out what's going on and to keep the witness safe. From the book's outset we are counting down 61 hours to a major event, although it is some time before it becomes clear what that will be.
read more 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)

Worth Dying For (September 2010)
The Vegas villains seemed to be portrayed as if they were in a Cohen Brothers film. Stylish but stupid and incompetent. It made their outcomes fairly assured from the moment they were introduced. The ending tells us that the East Coast may be an eventful journey and personally I want to be on board. Jack Reacher is a character for our times. I've passed some time trying to work out who would play him on the big screen and the problem is there really isn't anyone who comes close. Russell Crowe? Too short and getting too old for the series (of films), but has the look. Making of the film would be fairly inexpensive as the action is real world, well, real Reacher world. Keep em' coming.
read more   Worth Dying For: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher)

Second Son, a Kindle exclusive short story (August 2011)
Excellent source of background material on Reacher. If you are a seasoned Reacher Creature or a new convert you will find this single shows you that Reacher was as he always will be.
read more Second Son (Kindle Single)

The Affair (September 27, 2011) Prequel to Killing Floor
However, the last two Reachers - though good - left me a bit cold because I was getting tired of the "Reacher stumbles into small-town corruption" formula. Fortunately, THE AFFAIR flashes back to his army career, where he faces his true arch-nemesis, the military bureaucracy, and we learn why he decided to drop out and become a toothbrush-packing drifter. Even though the novel is mainly set in yet another bleak small town, I'm happy to report that Reacher is back to form. This latest adventure delivers the expected page-turning excitement, plus a few other bonuses:
read more The Affair (Jack Reacher #16)

A Wanted Man (with bonus short story Deep Down): A Jack Reacher Novel

An enjoyable read with some good twists but moved a little slowly. Overall it's a decent story and one can't help wanting to know a bit more about Jack Reacher.

A Wanted Man (with bonus short story Deep Down): A Jack Reacher Novel

Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel 

I don't know if the Reacher series can get any better, but it certainly isn't getting any worse or showing any author fatigue. The writing is crisp, the pacing brilliant, and the plot is deliciously convoluted and innovative. You simply cannot put this book down, it's that compelling and addictive.This is one of child's better Reacher books read it///

Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel

High Heat is a fast-paced, action-filled short story (or short novella) that gives Jack Reacher fans a hint of what Reacher would become. The story ended with a very unexpected twist as young Jack leaves NYC and moves on to see his brother.

High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella

Note: The earlier Jack Reacher short story, "Second Son," took place in 1974. "High Heat," set in 1977, is the second-youngest Jack Reacher story published by author Lee Child, with the exception of flashbacks and references to Jack's youth in his novels.

High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella (Kindle Single)
Notes
One shot/bad luck and the hard way are the best of the Reacher novels out side of Echo burning all are top quality great reading echo is ok ,but the plot wanders to much,the affair is a great read also.Read them all but it is OK to pass on echo.

           
                     

High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella (Kindle Single)