Bad Luck and Trouble

A Jack Reacher Novel
Lee Child

Reacher is in the Northwest when he gets a call from one of his former team members to meet him in California. The old gang is getting together. It is nearly a decade since he left the Army and his unit of MP Special Investigators. But that unit was a tight knit group who developed trust over their two years of working together. This novel is telling of a present day crisis, but really it gives more background on Reachers history with the 110th MP and who he is than a flashback novel would. We see the mutual respect of each of his team for him and for each other. We see the old habits come back as they work together, picking up as if the decade hadn't passed. What brings the group together, unfortunately, is the murder of some of their unit. So the rest of the unit comes in (or is pulled in) to investigate. No one messes with the Special Investigators. And of course, add in a little bit of international terrorism in the post 9/11 world to keep things interesting.

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