Review: Son of a Gun or of Sam
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 8, 2013
Ok, now I am beginning to agree with the rest of you that MAYBE Lee Child isn't writing these last few stories. I enjoyed this book more than the WANTED MAN but still can only give it 3 stars. What I did enjoy was seeing Reacher as an almost-17-years-old when the only thing on his mind was getting laid.....realistic, sure. I liked the fact that he used his famous critical thinking to figure out who the bad guys were. I think that is realistic for his character.  He is VERY smart. What I don't find realistic for who he is, is the gratuitous violence. Don't you think that AFTER totally beating up 2 young guys to the point where they are laying on the ground unconscious, Reacher would NOT then drop a HUGE boxed 1977 TV on their heads from 6 feet up?  I don't know.  I would like to hear Lee defend this book!  Maybe I'm still just angry a SHORT actor played Jack Reacher in the movie with the same name!  At least the price was right for this novella.