Review: What were you doing at 17?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 26, 2013
Me, I had just finished High School and was invited by a local police Sgt. To pick one of two options. Join the Navy or join the inmates on the municipal penal farm. Anchors Away ,my boys,Anchors Away.Young Teacher grew up the son of a Marine Officer and the was the younger brother of a lad who went to Westpoint.  At  17 Jack is described as over six feet tall a buck eighty in weight and an experienced street brawler. This background was all we were given to preface the manly action young Jack would soon encounter during his trip from Korea  to New York to visit his brother.Recalling my youth of long ago I do remember being a hell  raiser" well in to my twenties. However, it is a stretch for me to imagine a 17 yr old tangling with .Mafioso and hardened street thugs with nothing to lose. Especially in a strange city experiencing a blackout. Apparently young Jack can handle all comers  without a scratch.I' 'll be honest I did not like the exploitative sex scene  tossed in so that Jack could  describe what he thought was the Son of Sam serial killer. This was just too contrived. It doesn't fit in with Reachers adult character in the author's previous books.Having read every book written by Lee Child I had to wonder if he really authored this short story. Then again thinking back over my own history a short story from my teen to age twenty years might not be believable by those who know me from my adult years.So while I can't give the story my usual 5 STAR  I can see a 4Rshepherd