A Wanted Man

A Wanted Man (2012) by Lee Child. This latest installment in the Jack Reacher series offers nothing much that's new. Reacher is still a massive 6-foot-5 former MP who travels light and has no permanent address. He still has a way of figuring things out a couple of steps ahead of everyone else, and he doesn't hesitate to kill when he feels it is justified. In this book, he is picked up hitchhiking by a pair of apparent government agents who turn out to not be what they seem. By the end of the book, Reacher has uncovered a vast conspiracy and a terrorist cell, which he proceeds to dismantle (almost) single-handedly. He's a curiously likable character, but I found this book to be rather outlandishly unbelievable. It was mildly entertaining. Grade: B-