Gone Tomorrow: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child (Epub)

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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. And if you think Reacher isn’t going to get involved . . . then you don’t know Jack.

Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan—by dozens of people with one thing in common: They’re all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye.

User’s Reviews

“The ever-resourceful and vengeful Reacher takes on nearly a score of the bad guys in an exciting climax to an enthralling book…complete with cover-ups and numerous intriguing twists.”—Library Journal, starred review“A superb New York novel…. Child grounds his hero’s hard body and hard-drive brain in believable detail, and he sets the action against a precisely described landscape.” —Booklist, starred review “All good thriller writers know how to build suspense and keep the pages turning, but only better ones deliver tight plots as well, and only the best allow the reader to match wits with both the hero and the author. Bestseller Child does all of that in spades…. [He] sets things up subtly and ingeniously, then lets Reacher use both strength and guile to find his way to the exciting climax.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewFrom the Hardcover edition. From Booklist *Starred

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I enjoyed this book quite a lot for quite a bit of it. The premise was good, it unraveled logically, and was full of action. It did start to bog down a bit in the latter half, but picked up again near the end. Here is my problem. There is a fatal flaw in the logic of the story right at the end. Spoiler alert. When Susan Marks is caught in traffic, she calls the baddies and tells them that she is on the way and will be late. The baddies decide that she is lying and isn’t coming and kill her son and let her know that. That is what causes her to be on the subway later so that she can exact revenge. The problem is that Susan was being followed by one of the baddies the whole time, who likewise was caught in the traffic jam and knew that she was powerless to get there by midnight. These people had cell phones galore. Why not a simple call to check if she really was on the way? There was nothing magical about midnight. They were just waiting for her to deliver a memory stick. That could have happened at 2 am.

⭐ I am reading the entire Jack Reacher series in order. This is the first one I haven’t really enjoyed. Did anyone find it odd that the author suddenly switched from the third person point of view to the first person? Now Reacher is talking to us directly. There was too much political backstory and the details about a rifle went on forever. I ended up skimming forward frequently, especially in the graphic details of the knife fight. He always has a romantic/sexual fling in every book, but the one in this story seemed more like an afterthought that was thrown in really quick. I have ordered the next book in the series and I hope it is better.

⭐ Will not read another of his books.Funny how they just can’t hid their politics.Hmmm need more words to describe this crap.

⭐ GONE TOMORROW By Lee Child [JACK REACHER BOOK 13]MY REVIEW FIVE STARS*****I deliberated and decided what book I would read to finish out the year, to put the proverbial period after “2018”, this re-read of one of my absolute favorites from Lee Child’s JACK REACHER Series. This thirteenth installment in the iconic Jack Reacher novels, published a decade ago in 2009, has special meaning for me besides being one of my favorites out of what is now an absolutely stellar selection of sensational stories to choose from……it was my FIRST. I still remember just standing in the second isle of audio books at my library like a statue. I was pressed for time and had to find an acceptable book on tape to rent. I couldn’t find a single Baldacci, Connelly, Deaver, Gardner, Lescroart, Martini, or any of a dozen other authors I ordinarily picked. There was a lot of time logged just driving and it was pretty lonely until my epiphany and long term relationship with audio books. Anyway, there I was…a bit disgruntled because there were no options that I could see for books by my favorite writers. The books on tape were alphabetized and I had gone all the way back to the beginning and was standing in front of “C”. My eyes fell on the rather unassuming title “GONE TOMORROW” by Lee Child. I pulled it out, read the jacket, went to the counter, handed it to the librarian, and well…the rest is history.I re-read this book slowly, savoring every scene. I love the way Child ends every chapter on a cliff hanger. His writing technique is utterly effective, exciting, and compelling. His novels are the very definition of “page-turners” or “unputdownable”. GONE TOMORROW is no exception.The story starts in the wee hours of the morning with Reacher, a former MP in the Army, aboard a near empty Manhattan subway car. He notices a fellow passenger, a woman who is manifesting all 11 signs developed and deployed by Israeli counterintelligence to identify suicide bombers. Reacher is compelled to act but when he is within a few feet of the woman and trying to engage her in a dialogue, she abruptly pulls out a powerful handgun and blows the contents of her skull all to smithereens. Blood, brains and bits of bone are still clinging to the sides of the subway car when our narrative propels us forward.I was spellbound as the plot unfolded with Reacher taking me along with him for a positively pulse-pounding thrill ride through the streets of New York City. In short, my first introduction to Reacher was a gripping masterpiece of suspense that left me incredulous that I had not picked up a Lee Child novel before.Saying that this novel is “good” would be like saying that homemade ice cream in July is “good”. This book is exciting, enthralling, and just about the best suspense novel of its kind that I have ever read. The fictional character of Reacher is absolutely fearless, flawless, uncompromising, and remarkably relentless in his pursuit of his concept of justice. He is the quintessential “good guy” who stands 6 foot 5 inches tall, packs 250 lbs. of pure muscle, and with hands the size of hams. He is a lethal opponent with brains to match his brawn, but all too often underestimated by his opposition. We know going in that he is our champion and that no bully on this planet is going to get close to his off-switch.How is it then…that the author possesses the ability to ratchet up the pace until the level of anxiety, apprehension, and fear for the safety of the resilient and reliable Reacher renders us barely able to take a breath and turn the page. This time around there are multiple bullies for Reacher to stop, and the odds are a seemingly insurmountable 19 to 1.We know that Reacher is going to use all of the tools at his disposal, and that he will prevail against the villains—in this case a well-armed and expert Al Qaeda terror cell. An analogy might be to be aboard a dingy being tossed around in a raging river and see up ahead that you are heading for a monstrous waterfall. The terror and sense of doom would be palpable. You can experience that kind of fear during this Reacher novel, but from the safety of knowing that you—-like Reacher—will be safe regardless of the danger you face.Child’s prose, his writing, well, it is as propulsive as it gets, period. He is an expert at ratcheting up the suspense like no other writer that comes to mind. Child is great at what he does…delivering thrillers that hand you that vicarious experience of standing beside Reacher as he prevails. His cliff-hangers are constant, his plot twists often brilliant, and in no case will you be left without a racing pulse and a pounding heartbeat.The blood-splattered finale of this novel is unforgettable. The face-off between Reacher and two of his deadliest foes, a pair of sociopathic and sadistic female terrorist operatives, form the basis for a well choreographed and perhaps most memorable fight scene in Reacher history. I read the book for the first time a decade ago, but I can still recall the suspense and satisfaction of the horrific conclusion.

⭐ There’s less of a human angle than in some Jack Reacher stories. Reacher witnesses a suicide and wants to figure out why, particularly after multiple shadowy forces go after him to find out what happened at the scene.Most of the book takes place in New York, although Reacher in his usual doesn’t-sleep-much fashion goes to Washington and North Carolina searching for the truth. Pulled into things are an ambitious war-hero politician whose service record suddenly becomes a liability; a Pentagon records clerk; a formidable mother-daughter pair; and an ethically-upright NYPD detective.Spoiler alert: don’t read past here if you haven’t already read the book.I found the ending flawed. Detective Theresa Lee opines, and it then transpires that, the data file once found would be deemed damaged and unreadable by the government. It’s unclear if she means through incompetence, or if dark forces want it written off when in fact it’s still good. Child never clears that up. I also would have liked to hear the Hoths’ real name and background, although you can argue Reacher probably wouldn’t have learned this. He’s out of his hospital bed and gone within a day or two.Reacher gets his obligatory roll in the hay here with Lee towards the end. Child seems to spoof this by making it sudden, out-of-place and inconsequential. He tries to write it as Lee looking, humorously, for some way that Reacher will “take” without her consent the guns and ammo she’s not supposed to be supplying him with, but the joke never really flies.I also thought unlikely Lila and Svetlana deciding to kill him through a baroque knife-fight scenario. They may be into sadistic killing, but they’re also pros, as every move they’ve previously made shows, and their mission here would weigh against that. They might need to torture him to get information about the memory stick from him, but they don’t need to give him an opening to escape.Browning/Springfield’s chiding him at the end for shooting 3-bullet bursts instead of single shots when ammunition was scarce, was well taken. Reacher doesn’t make this kind of mistake. So why did he make it here? I know Child needed to set up the one-bullet-left, out-of-ammo situation at the end, and didn’t need Reacher to have to kill 29 terrorists to get it, but there has to have been another way.Still, I love these books. Five stars.

⭐ I picked these books up to read again as upon all the first readings, I just loved Reacher. Now? Not so much. Reread Gone Tomorrow. Child comments that “goat herders” stumbling upon special forces simply meant that the special forces were inept, it was an excuse and that goat herders were not really in those mountains. Then he goes on in the book and has “goat herders” in this book in the mountains! Really? What really put me out was I felt it was a shade/disrespect to Marcus Luttrell of Lone Survivor. Child (nor Reacher) can hold a candle to those heroes, nor their training, nor their courage – not even in Child’s/Reacher’s imaginary world. So I’m done with Child and Reacher’s pompous “I am such an expert in any and everything.” If you want to read something that beats Reacher all to pieces and is REAL, then read Lone Survivor.

⭐ I both like and dislike the Jack Reacher books, and I’ve long struggled to articulate why. Then I read GONE TOMORROW, which I’d somehow missed in the series, and I found myself starting to get a handle on it. It’s this: the first third of every Reacher novel is the just about the best thriller ever written. Things start to drag a bit in the second third, when Reacher cultivates a few allies as he starts to get half a handle on the true nature of his fight and the people he’s fighting. By the final third, we have a pretty good idea of who the good guys and the bad guys are, what’s at stake, and all that’s left is for things to play out. There are always some good twists in store, but we’ve been down this road before and we generally know how things are going to go, and at that point in a Reacher read, you’re continuing on for the same reason that you keep eating every chip in the bag next to you on the couch — because they’re there and you don’t feel like getting up. And when you’re done, you’re thinking, “Ugh, why did I eat that entire bag of chips? I feel bloated and blah and a bit like I wish I had found something better to do with my life.”That doesn’t make the Reacher books bad. They do exactly what they set out to do, the way McDonald’s does exactly what it sets out to do — sell a precision-made people-pleasing product made out of perfectly assessed, developed, engineered and executed parts with enviable efficiency and even more enviable profits.And those first thirds are so good. One the unsung parts of Lee Child’s genius is creating a moment of disturbance from the opening sentence and spooling it out with perfectly calibrated pacing and an unrelenting sense of pleasurable uncertainty. GONE TOMORROW offers a perfect example: on a New York City subway train in the middle of the night, America’s favorite autistic, sociopathic drifter spots a woman exhibiting all eleven tells of a suicide bomber, per an Israeli intelligence report that Jack Reacher was privy to in his days as a military policeman. He’s convinced she’s a suicide bomber, and he’s got us convinced too. So what’s he going to do about it? What CAN he do about it? I didn’t know, and neither did you, but I was absolutely riveted by the question as we got nearer to what had to be answer. It’s perfectly crafted suspense. No wasted words, no distracting asides, no putting anything on pause to explain things — and even when things are explained, the explanations contribute rather than detract from the growing pleasure of the growing uncertainty. It’s pure genius. Just one person against the possibility of incalculable loss of life and property and tranquility.The only problem is that we can’t stay in that scene forever. Which is fine. I managed to hang in there more than halfway before I saw the inevitable scale and scaffolding of the inevitable shadowy conspiracy, when it became bigger than just one man — although one man always stays at its center — and at that point the story loses its advancing speed and settles into a comfortable but slightly complacent cruise control. If only because the journey has to end somewhere and it can’t end at 140 miles an hour. I wouldn’t even say that’s a flaw, or anything one could blame Lee Child for. Not that anybody but me might see this as a design flaw. But I will say that once the story is no longer about just one man alone against a system, it loses the thing that draws people to Reacher in the first place — the fantasy of being a loner with no attachments and no obligations, no debts, no worries — and shackles him to a broad-scale challenge he can’t walk away from even though he technically can. We miss the man alone and unencumbered, because we wish on some level we were alone and unencumbered too. Maybe he has greater purpose, but maybe the appeal of Reacher to many is that broader purpose on some gut level feels overrated and, well, encumbering. At that point Reacher becomes less a lone person than part of the Knight-Errant Industrial Complex, and he gets a little lost within that even as he stays at its front and center. And that’s what gives me that too-full-of-empty-calories feeling.

⭐ As I always say, I’m probably not the typical reader, so take this review with a grain of salt. In my opinion it goes extremely slow. Spends lots of time in things that were not important at all.Also, there is a description of a killing that is very gross. Disappointed about that.My favorite parts are when Reacher outsmarts his enemies. There’s very little of that in this book.All that said, the book turned interesting towards the end. Overall a 3 stars only

⭐ Vintage Lee Child and Jack Reacher. The reader gets a two for one deal with this and all Jack Reacher books. You get the fast paced can’t put it down writing style of Lee Child. I think most of us who are Jack fans are so wrapped up in his adventures that we often overlook the great writing that Lee Child uses to bring it all to life. No other author I’ve ever read sucks me in so quickly and puts me in a “can’t put it down” mode for days. It’s like going into another dimension. And of course, our hero, Jack Reacher who never fails to be true to his character and is the underdog’s hero and the bully’s worse nightmare. Keep on keeping on Lee Child!

⭐ Reacher has a list in his head based on Israeli intelligence which has steps for men and women that help identify suicide bombers. Sitting just a few seats from Reacher is a woman displaying each & every one of the indicators. So, Reacher stands up in front of her hoping to talk her out of her plan to blow up the train. Finally Reacher gets her to show him both hands & when her right hand comes out of her oversized bag, she is holding a big old magnum. Reacher thinks she is going to kill him for some reason, but instead , puts the gun under her own chin & blows the top of her own head off. Reacher thinks it is a simple suicide, but when the cops show up, things get seriously sideways very quickly. This is a GREAT STORY!

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