My 14th Jack Reacher novel!
I am enthralled with this series of mystery novels - I’ve been reading them for about 3 weeks straight through - kept me in suspense every time. I love the vigilante justice Jack administers to the bad guys whom he finds like flies to honey.
In this novel, drug dealers discover a stash of WWII amphetamines buried in a deep underground bunker and seemingly forgotten. It’s cold, very cold - the landscape is always a metaphor for Jack’s existential purity and isolation. He doesn’t get laid in this novel-the first time this doesn’t occur. (He usually slides into bed with one of the characters in an understated, adult consensual act of lonely coupling.) Only a telephone flirtation.
The de rigeur torture component has to do with legs being sawed off as punishment for insulting the unusually diminutive bad guy.
The betrayer is the chief of police, Hooker, who gets what he deserves, via Jack's inimitable justice system.
And the denoument is fantastic-an explosion in the cavern that mimics a missile-silo accident which Jack survives.
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