The Sentinel (Jack Reacher 25)

Lee Child, Andrew Child — 2020

The edge-of-your-seat, heart-in-mouth new Jack Reacher thriller for 2020 - his 25th adventure. No one's bigger than Jack Reacher. Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side. Reacher might just have to stick around and find out what the hell's gone wrong . . . and then put it right, like only he can. *** 'Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of.' Ken Follett 'If you haven't read any Jack Reacher, you have a treat in store . . . a hitchhiker without a phone, a one-man force for good.' - The Times 'A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour . . . Reacher is a mythic figure.' Literary Review 'Jack Reacher is a wonderfully epic hero; tough, taciturn, yet vulnerable... Irresistible.' People 'Jack Reacher has long since earned his prominent place in the pantheon of cool, smart-talking American heroes.' New York Times

Reviews

Keernan Lanismore@keernan

Dec 29, 2022

Love the Reacher series. However, after reading this book I am, sadly, not a fan of the author collaboration. The complexity of the story was very artificial and forced - and impossible to follow. I got to the point that I no longer tried to follow the story and just wanted it to end.

Danny Engström@danny_boy

Aug 12, 2022

The brothers wrote this together. I think it's pretty good. Will buy next one too.

Liv Strefford@livstreff

Apr 20, 2022

Enjoyed the plot (at least towards the end), hated the character. Jack Reacher just comes off as overly arrogant and someone who can’t keep his mouth shut, which put me off this book a lot

Jeff Brown @jeffb23

Feb 25, 2022

If you were turned off by the bloodbath from the last book, never fear -- the real Jack Reacher has returned! And I don't understand all the "blah" comments about it! Lee Child brought in a co-author for the first time, his brother Andrew Grant (Child), whom Lee called "Reacher's first fan". So, to me, he brought Reacher back from the mess that "Blue Moon" was. I don't like the idea of co-authors, but as Lee said, "I've done 25 of these books, and I'm ready to pass the character on to someone who really understands Reacher". I can appreciate that. The gripes people have -- he uses a cellphone! He drives! And he talks! More than three or four words! God forbid! Get over yourselves, people. These were tiny tweaks to the character that were minor compared to the improvement of the overall story, from beginning to end. He protects an IT guy in a small town where a foreign entity is trying to get a server from him. He beats up bad guys, joins forces with other players to get to the bottom of the threat. Classic Reacher -- moved into the second decade of the 21st century.

Chad Henderson@elmofromok

Feb 8, 2022

What an absolute disappointment. Andrew Child does not understand Reacher or he is deliberately changing the character to match his own vision of him going forward. Every conversation was weird and wrong. The fight scenes are comically bad and not even close to plausible. This whole book feels like childish fan fiction.