Review: Good. Just good.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2012
I love Child, love Reacher. This is interesting take on what Reacher's life might be like as a kid, but it's awkward because you can't get past the fact that the kid Reacher thinks and acts so much more maturely than his years. He acts, in fact, like the adult Reacher. But I don't dismiss this as easily as others here have done. In some of his interviews, Child has said that when he was a kid, he often calculated how much work he'd have to do taking out thugs in his neighborhood. So in this sense, the short story is valuable for insight into the author's mind if not his character.