Review: Reacher circa summer of Son of Sam
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2014
1977. Reacher is 16. Headed to see his brother at West Point. Stumbles on a mob guy slapping an FBI agent.  He moves on and finds what any red-blooded 16 year-old would want: a date. NYC goes dark -- full blackout. Fumbling together in the darkness, the gal goes down...and Reacher sees enough to recognize a guy with the right kind of gun... looking for couples in cars...M.O. of Sun of Sam. He sees only Reacher ...not his M.O. after all. The way the guy moves tells Reacher all about the guy's military history. A picture that finally makes sense when he...Son of Sam is caught.I love the details Reacher figures...be it how to bust open a door, how to use a beer bottle multiple ways, one involving centrifugal force...and how a guy moves when he's been deployed in a certain place, with a certain military branch. It's not just what he knows, but how he puts it in motion.