GONE TOMORROW by Lee Child

Reacher is on a underground with a woman who looks like she is about to perform a suicide bombing. She does something unpredictable, and Reacher needs to find out what is going on. There’s a junction to occurrences in Afghanistan and the Ukraine, and interactions with the NYPD, FBI and bad guys. As always, Reacher is larger than life. There’s lots of action and suspense, some parts of the book slowed the narrative down. If you’re a Reacher fan, you’ll enjoy this one.

The book’s lean, mean opening paragraph: “Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all sorts of telltale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. By definition they’re all first-timers.”

New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn’t.

In the next few nervous seconds Reacher will make a choice-and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Child.

Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a woman cop and a host of shadowy feds, wants to know just how many lives had already been twisted before hers, and what danger is looming around him now.

Because a race has begun through the streets of Manhattan in a labyrinth crowded with forceful, trained soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. Susan Mark’s plain little life was critical to dozens of others in Washington, California, Afghanistan . . . from a former Delta Force operator now running for the U.S. Senate, to a beautiful young woman with a fantastic story to tell-and to a host of others who have just one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Alternatively, maybe just enough to get him killed.

Reacher, being Reacher, knows Israeli counterintelligence’s 11-point list of telltale signs for spotting female terrorists. He also knows the exact specifications of the R142A Kawasaki-built New York City underground car, down to its automated statement system, which gives orders in a man’s voice and information in a woman’s. Much of the guilty pleasure delivered by Mr. Child’s books comes from their amended, obsessively deductive use of data.

When the subway-riding woman, who is not a suicide bomber, winds up dead because of Reacher’s interfering, he invites the interest of the Police Department. However, something about the dead woman’s individuality puts larger forces into play. Soon, by the improbably upward-spiraling logic that drives these books and would give readers pause if pausing were possible, Reacher has become a target for secretive foreign agents, federal officials and persons from the Pentagon. One of this book’s high-powered wrought suspense sequences brings together three groups of Reacher catchers, Reacher and Reacher’s knowledge of the New York underground system.

The meticulous maneuvers in that culmination illustrate why Mr. Child is so good at what he does. However, what is he doing? “Gone Tomorrow” has such a case of scoundrel inflation that it involves itself in global geopolitics on the highest order. One step higher into the upper reaches of evildoing and Mr. Child could find himself on the moon.

“Gone Tomorrow” motivates nostalgia for the simpler books in the series, those in which Reacher walks into a rustic setting, smells trouble, gets to the heart of some local malfeasance, leaving the most no-nonsense, trim-looking woman in town with a secret smile on her face. The series has vacillated between these two extremes.

“Gone Tomorrow” are set in New York, where Trevellyan sounds like a British tourist while Reacher’s command of New York geography is exacting. Amazingly, however, for a guy so obsessed with details and logistics, Reacher swills vast amounts of coffee without noting the whereabouts of a bathroom.

Reacher’s New York savvy culminates in a blow-by-blow, stunningly well-choreographed showdown on East 58th Street. Reacher arrives at the site armed to the teeth, ready to deploy his phenomenal fighting skills against a wily enemy in the silent dead of night. In this case there is a clear connection between life and art. Mr. Child spied this location while buying a painting at an art gallery across the street.

In a novel that sweeps through one hairpin surprise after another, Lee Child releases a thriller that spreads three decades and gnaws at the heart of America . . . and for Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, it’s a mystery with only one answer-the kind that comes when you finally get in person and look at your worst enemy in the eye.

About Lee Child
Lee Child is the author of thirteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and #1 bestsellers Bad Luck and Trouble and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City.

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