Bad Luck and Trouble
Friday, August 14th, 2009Bad Luck and Trouble
By Lee Child
Review by Jonny Zetterström
You do not mess with Jack Reacher. People keep trying and people keep regretting.
Lee Child has written numerous novels about Jack Reacher. The main character is a giant ex military police major who knows how to fight. He is also interested in numbers and more or less a vagabond.
Reacher is out of cash and checks his account balance at an ATM-machine only to find out that he’s got too much money in his bank account. This could of course be an error, but the deposit could also be a military police radio code calling for urgent assitance. The latter is true.
Back in the army Reacher had founded a small elite unit consisting of nine people. They were the special investigators of the military police and back then the saying was “You do not mess with the special investigators”. All of these men and women of army law enforcement were excellent officers; but suddenly it seems that six has disappeard from the face of the earth and the seventh has been found murdered.
I have read quite a few of the novels written about Jack Reacher and this latest one, Bad Luck and Trouble, is just as good as the others if not better. There’s excitment. There’s suspense. This is a book I could hardly put down. It’s brutal. It’s a thriller and it’s highly recommended reading.






