Book Addict Shaun's Reviews > Gone Tomorrow

My thirteenth adventure with Jack Reacher and once again what another thrilling ride it was. Only Lee Child could open a book and spend the best part of two pages talking about the make and model of a subway carriage and where it was made and still have me enthralled (however, I was pleased to see this actually had relevance near the end of the story). Reacher’s brain capacity is seemingly endless in the amount of detail that he comes out with in these stories.

Gone Tomorrow is a first person Reacher novel however it was only after about 300 pages that I remembered that. I was too engrossed in the story for it to have any importance but it is always interesting to get that first person view. The plot I felt was strong, though the blurb gives nothing away except to say that Reacher witnesses a potential suicide bomber on a subway train. Well, nothing is ever that simple in a Lee Child story and this was another tale of secrets, conspiracies and Reacher just having to have sex with the female character (this time around the sex lasted about five lines and added zilch to the story or the characterisation). I was impressed with the depth to the story and the constant misdirection that Lee Child does so well. At times Reacher does get away too easily but, I read these novels to see him overcome the bad guys and it is fiction so I can overlook that.

It is interesting to view Reacher in the modernising world, especially when it comes to technology and the advancements of the internet and mobile phones. It’s less easy for him to hide when he’s using his real passport and has a bank account and so he isn’t really as off the grid as he was in the earlier novels. If somebody really wants to find him, they aren’t going to have too hard a job of it. It’s also fun to see him learning new things as opposed to being a walking encyclopaedia of almost every topic known to man.

Gone Tomorrow was a great instalment in the series and it was one that I very much enjoyed. I can’t see me never not enjoying a Reacher story, only ever less or more than the previous one. I am attempting to catch up with this series before my holiday in May so that I can take the most recent three books and the short story collection with me and so that means it’s straight into 61 Hours. Long live Reacher.