Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 12/13/2018 + 1187 more book reviews

Another solid entry in the Jack Reacher series. This is one of my favorite crime/thriller series so I look forward every year to the publication of the new Reacher book. In this one, Reacher is in Maine and decides to travel cross-country from Maine to San Diego. He gets a lift traveling on the back roads of New England but doesn't get far when his ride needs to return for some business. Reacher gets dropped off in New Hampshire not far from where his father supposedly grew up, Laconia, NH. Reacher decides to take an extra day to find out what he can about his father's childhood since his father joined the Marines when he was seventeen and never looked back on his parents or youth in Laconia. But as Reacher investigates, he finds that there were no Reachers ever in Laconia. Then as he delves deeper, he finds that they actually lived at a town outside of Laconia that was the site of an old tin mill. Along the way, Reacher ruffles some feathers and some baddies from Boston want to throw him off a building -- they obviously don't know Reacher very well! As all this is happening, the story shifts to a young couple who are being held captive in a motel off the beaten path about 20 miles from Laconia. So why are they being held? Of course Reacher ends up getting involved in their plight as well.

Overall, this was another fast-paced novel from Child. I read this in two days as the pages kept turning. Although some of it was reminiscent of Make Me, I would still recommend Past Tense and I'll be anxiously awaiting the next in the series.

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