Review: A+++
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 15, 2013
I really, really, REALLY enjoyed this short story. It takes place when Jack Reacher is 13, brother Joe is 15, and they are with their parents Stan and Josie stationed at Marine Corps Air Base Futenma in Okinawa, Japan. Granted, you have to pretend you believe a child is capable of the level of thinking he exhibits as a 13-yr-old boy, but it's just a great story. It's like watching a butterfly emerging from the chrysalis. It's clear how a combination of events during his childhood as well as the way his parents raised him made him into the powerhouse man he becomes throughout the long series of books. If I could change anything about the whole series of books, it would be that Joe didn't die in the very first one. The exploration of their relationship would be rich reading.