The Affair: A Jack Reacher Novel (Paperback)

from Jarratt

This is the second Jack Reacher book I've read and I enjoyed it better than the first ("Killing Floor"). The story was tight, the dialogue well done and witty, and the characters were nicely fleshed out. "The Affair" is about a murder that's occurred outside a high security army base in rural Mi...

from TheJeanette

Welcome back, Jack! You can enjoy this one without having read any of the other Reacher novels. It's a prequel to the entire series, revealing how Jack came to be that big guy on lonely stretches of road with his thumb out in the wind. The Affair is set in 1997, when Jack Reacher is still an MP i...

from tina1969

The Affair is no 16 in the Jack Reacher series but it is the story of how and why he leaves the army to become the drifter that we know. These books are what they are. I do feel that they are all the same as in Jack ends up in a little town, fixes the troubles, kisses the girl and then moves on. ...

from cameling

Although it's the 16th in the series, The Affair takes us back to the beginning when Jack Reacher enters into a voluntary separation from the army, and becomes the vagabond vigilante that we are familiar with. A woman in Mississippi has had her throat viciously slashed and despite the lack of evi...

from Randall.Hansen

Another great Jack Reacher novel, by Lee Child. This story is set in the late 1990s, at the tail end of Reacher's stint in the Army, when he is called upon to help solve a murder near an Army base that has classified activity. Always enjoy Lee's style of writing. Not quite a page-turner, but a go...