HIGH HEAT is a extremely enjoyable short story for Reacher fans. It's a significantly improvement over the earlier Reacher eBooks SECOND SON and DEEP DOWN. The writing is usual Lee Child (superb) and the plot is a typical Reacher plot - he wanders into town, finds a lovely lady or two, and a lot of issues. And it's pretty brilliant.
Reacher is on his way to pay a visit to his brother at West Point when he stops off in NYC to have a look at the music scene and the college ladies at NYU, but what he discovers is a city held in anxiety of the Son of Sam and enduring a unremitting heat wave.
Right away Reacher witnesses what seems to be to be a female in distress. And Reacher remaining who he is - "I'm not a Marine. I'm the son of a Marine." - he's compelled to intercede. He's only sixteen, but he's already a fully formulated machine that's been fine tuned by street fights on and off-post at military setups the world over.
But it works out he's really set foot into it, because he's crossed paths with the Croselli crime family and the boss isn't about to be shown up by some punk kid who's just rolled into town. Advised off by an out-of-favor female FBI agent, Reacher hooks up with a college girl just as the city is delved into darkness from a power outage.
As Reacher and his associate explore the unique scene that is NYC without power, they meet with someone who Reacher believes is the Son of Sam. Using his unusually keen ability to observe and record information that's such a dominant part of this series, Reacher believes he's deducted a useful piece of information that might help the police catch a serial killer.
With that in mind, Reacher doesn't even flinch to head back into the crime family's controlled area, looking for a disgraced FBI agent, trying to find a way to give her information that can get her career back on track and end the Son of Sam's killing spree.
If you're a fan of the series, then you're going to love Reacher in this eBook - from "the clock in Reacher's head" ticking to midnight to his pretty simple logic in dealing with bad guys: "They could have kept on walking."
This is a teenage Reacher at his absolute best, on the verge of becoming the soldier cop and with all the wit and skills and attitude that readers have come to love about him.
High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella (Kindle Single)Reacher is on his way to pay a visit to his brother at West Point when he stops off in NYC to have a look at the music scene and the college ladies at NYU, but what he discovers is a city held in anxiety of the Son of Sam and enduring a unremitting heat wave.
Right away Reacher witnesses what seems to be to be a female in distress. And Reacher remaining who he is - "I'm not a Marine. I'm the son of a Marine." - he's compelled to intercede. He's only sixteen, but he's already a fully formulated machine that's been fine tuned by street fights on and off-post at military setups the world over.
But it works out he's really set foot into it, because he's crossed paths with the Croselli crime family and the boss isn't about to be shown up by some punk kid who's just rolled into town. Advised off by an out-of-favor female FBI agent, Reacher hooks up with a college girl just as the city is delved into darkness from a power outage.
As Reacher and his associate explore the unique scene that is NYC without power, they meet with someone who Reacher believes is the Son of Sam. Using his unusually keen ability to observe and record information that's such a dominant part of this series, Reacher believes he's deducted a useful piece of information that might help the police catch a serial killer.
With that in mind, Reacher doesn't even flinch to head back into the crime family's controlled area, looking for a disgraced FBI agent, trying to find a way to give her information that can get her career back on track and end the Son of Sam's killing spree.
If you're a fan of the series, then you're going to love Reacher in this eBook - from "the clock in Reacher's head" ticking to midnight to his pretty simple logic in dealing with bad guys: "They could have kept on walking."
This is a teenage Reacher at his absolute best, on the verge of becoming the soldier cop and with all the wit and skills and attitude that readers have come to love about him.
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