Maybe he used it as briefing material. The Midnight Line is thriller number 22 in the phenomenal, bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. SUSPENSE When you have the money to buy the movie rights to a character who someone else has created, I guess you have poetic license to recreate him in your own image. And he gets Reacher to make random observations that, when they’re not weird, are just plain wrong. ‧ Lisa Jewell. This new one will surely be my last, because a third read reveals Child is more cowboy builder than fine cabinetmaker. Pass on this book and don't waste the money or the time on this lame effort. Jewell’s (I Found You, 2017, etc.) If Childs is researching his topics in order to provide legitimate detail, its hard to find much evidence of it. Is America on the verge of substituting woke socialism for Judeo-Christian ethics? Why? With regard to The Midnight Line, I don't know if someone ghosted the book for Childs, or he simply mailed in the assignment for his contract. Max Brooks But The Midnight Line, the new Jack Reacher novel and the 22nd in the series, touches on the opioid crisis in the US that Trump recently declared a national public health emergency. Something is seriously wrong here. THE MIDNIGHT LINE From the Jack Reacher series , Vol. Full disclosure: I’m not a great admirer of Child, though, like any writer, I’m insanely jealous of him (the blurb on this one says he sells a book every nine seconds), and I have read plenty of airport fiction. It’s a class ring — West Point 2005. 22 by Lee Child ... Review Posted Online: Sept. 4, 2017. Did you like this book? A downsized former Military Police major, he’s now a drifter, a man with no job and no home who wanders the country, never knowing or caring where he’ll be heading next, never looking for trouble yet always finding it. Perhaps like me you are somewhat disappointed that Tom Cruise is the movie version of Jack Reacher. Just because the author has made it on the NYT bestseller list, more than once, I think, doesn't make it a great or even a good literary accomplishment. This from the guy who sold out the Reacher character to 5' 8" Tom Cruise and turned the movie adaptation into a joke. GENERAL SCIENCE FICTION How he plays badly with those who aren't is also part of the fun. It offers a good plot with building suspense and a totally satisfying denouement. Ten years later, Ellie’s remains and her backpack are found, though the police are unable to determine the reasons for her disappearance and death. he's outside a dinner, finds himself surrounded by local punks, takes us through his thought process re how he's going to take them out despite them outnumbering him, he executes on that plan). I've loved every Jack Reacher book that Lee Child has written until now. | I found, the fact he never eats anything but pancakes, eggs and bacon in a diner every, Help us find and write the stories Kiwis need to read, The Casketeers' Francis and Kaiora Tipene burst into print, Democracy inaction: AC Grayling's The Good State reviewed, The lawless nightmare of Venezuela: It Would be Night in Caracas reviewed, Apeirogon: A tale of understanding and hope from the Israel-Palestine conflict, In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary gets a 19th-century makeover, Prince's posthumous purple prose: The Beautiful Ones reviewed, Auckland Writers Festival 2020 line-up announced. Lee Child’s Jack Reacher returns, and “The Midnight Line,” his 22nd thriller, is among his best. In fact, it's one of the best thrillers I've read this year. Magazine Subscribers (How to Find Your Reader Number).