Review: A let down.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
I so wanted to like High Heat. As you can tell from my screen name, I'm a huge Reacher fan.  The past several books and short stories have been a let down, and this is no exception.In this short story, Reacher is on his way to West Point to visit his brother. Before long, Reacher sees a women getting slapped, and he steps in to protect her. It turns out the guy that Reacher slapped was a made man, and soon promises to kill Reacher. The woman that was slapped, has secrets of her own. WIth all  of this going on, NYC loses power in the middle of a heat wave. Then to add to Reacher's problems, he thinks he sees a serial killer.This story has a few problems. First off, there seems to be a lot of filler in this story. It just seems to be a lot of wasted space. Things were added just to make the story a bit longer.  There was a mild sex scene, that sort of went into minor detail, but it wasn't necessary. In the past, the sex scenes were fast, and not a lot of detail. When one reads a Reacher story, they don't do it for the sex, they read it to see Reacher bust some heads.It has been rumored that Child has a ghost writer for his past few Reacher stories. I never really believed them, or at least not fully until this story. Child uses the phrase "Zip" for "Zipper." There is no way Child would make such a mistake, unless he never wrote this.  This also doesn't have a "Lee Chld" feel to it.  It just seems off, like The Affair and A Wanted Man.This just isn't a good Reacher story. If you've never read a Reacher adventure before, don't start with this one.