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Nov 28, 2020gloryb rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
An enjoyable read with lots of action (fisticuffs), guns, and vehicles set in a small town in Tennessee. The formula is the same as in all the other Reacher novels. This novel centers around a current problem in the news - the locking of companies' computers for a ransom. Included in that plot is the mention of software - The Sentinel - needed to block foreign players from manipulating the US mail-in voting system and the mention of "stealing the vote" and "fake news" - all such very current news items that I was amazed these possibilities could be in a novel so recently published. I have read another book by Andrew Grant and liked his style of writing. I can see his influence, as a past CEO of an IT company, in the plot - the computer scenarios - and Child's influence in the description of hand to hand fighting. Also Child's preference for short sentences, often incomplete sentences, and sentence fragments seem to suggest those sections could have been written by Child. I was glad to see that Child's boring descriptions of Reacher's casing of a site - down, sometimes to the number of footsteps - was excluded. Also, Reacher stays in the same town with no need to describe his travels from point to point. I liked that Reacher in this novel is not a skirt chaser, as those descriptions in Child's novels seemed so forced. All in all - a thumbs up for this writing combination.