Review: Fun meeting the teenaged Reacher!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2013
Reacher fans won't want to miss this 45-minute novella about Jack as a 16-year old, meandering about NYC no less; and coming to the aid of damsels in distress as he is wont to do. He is just as fearless, smart, and ruthless in a fight as later in life; and discovering that he likes the ladies, as we well know. The plot features Reacher meeting a female FBI agent that seems to be getting the worse of an encounter with a Mafioso type; as usual, it takes little more provocation than that for our leading man to step in. Then during a city wide blackout (we remember that!), Reacher gets even with the thug once and for all, needless to say endearing himself to the lady in question. Our only quibble is that a reference to a Son of Sam sighting seemed an unlikely and unneeded add-on to the basic story. But nonetheless, great fun meeting our hero coming of age!