Without Fail

I’m still enjoying the Jack Reacher novels, including this one which I picked off the rack at the grocery the other day, then began a marathon read until I finished it. Good tough, loner good guy is ex-military cop Reacher, the man who carries only a toothbrush. Although it is still a bit disconcerting to find pseudonymic author Lee Child’s Britishisms here and there in the text. I got by the idea that the American characters were not "taking a walk," but doing a "walkabout." Minor annoyance. I winced, however, when the minister of a Wyoming country church was referred to as "the vicar." Give me a break. Good thrillers, though, with logical plot consistency. I bought two more from Amazon. Happy to see there are four more to read after that before the series dies. Assuming it does.

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