Lee Child, Jeff Harding: Killing Floor (2010, Transworld Publishers Limited)
544 pages
English language
Published 2010 by Transworld Publishers Limited.
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
Good, not entirely great, crime drama with a very appealing central character. Will give the series at least one more book to see how he develops
I've been hearing about these books for some time now and so decided to give one a try. I was pleasantly surprised - it managed to be a formulaic thriller with a few twists up it's sleeve.
I saw the Picard thing coming a mile off, but completely missed the thing about the glasses. Similarly I missed the garage thing with the apostrophe, which I thought was quite cleverly done. For a novel introducing jack reacher, detail of his life is thin on the ground - though we do get the facts. there are many more to come and I'm sure some will be better than others.
