Review: Second Son rocks!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2012
I have read all the Reacher books and this one disappoints only its brevity.Child is a plotting-master and in a relatively few pages he gives some tasty hints at the "force of nature" Reacher will become as an adult. Not only his size but his knack for putting disparate elements togather to solve a puzzle.Reachers' family has just arrived at a new duty station on Guam, when his mother is called away to attend her dying Father. While getting acclimated on the island he faces down some bullies and shelters a young girl from potential harm. All classic Reacher!Shortly there-after his father learns that some classified information assigned to his unit has gone missing and that he will likely be called to account for it. At the same time a school placment test that he and his brother are going to have to take before starting school also goes missing,and brother Joe looks like he may take a fall for it.How Reacher responds and pieces together the true story in the last few pages is one of the things that keep Lee Child- Reacher stories flying off the shelf. Long time fans will not be disappointed and new converts will start reading older Reacher novels.A crackerjack tale- highly recommended.