Book Review: : Personal by Lee Child

Personal by Lee Child
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I've often said that reading Jack Reacher books is like eating your favorite dish where all the ingredients have been changed just a little, but the taste of the dish has an undercurrent of everything you like and then something different.

Personal sees Reacher settling an old score because the army has called for his services as an old sniper has cropped out of the woodwork. The problem here is that it was Reacher who put him in the jail in his old life as a military policeman.

Things get interesting when the sniper takes a shot at the French president and Reacher gets involved in the mix because he knows about the way the sniper thinks.

There are lot of good thinking scenes and good fighting scenes. The last fight scene is exceptionally written and Lee Child's understanding of how fights take place and the mechanics of every street fight shine through just as they've done in the last 15 or 16 Reacher books.

In all, you get an excellent scheme unraveled by Reacher, great dialogue (I said nothing), Reacher's inventiveness and the way he shreds every problem presented to him. The hallmarks of the folding toothbrush, buying only one set of clothes, thinking things through, everything is there in the book.

If you've liked Reacher books in the past, you're going to love this one and if you've never read a Reacher book, this is the best time to start.

For ofcourse, Reacher is, Sherlock Homeless.


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