Sunday, May 1, 2011

The Enemy, by Lee Child

The Enemy

Lee Child's "Reacher novels" are fast, entertaining reads. I stumbled across Lee Child completely by accident several months again and was thrilled at the number of mystery novels he has written that I now have at my disposal! I haven't read these in order (and am not even sure what the correct order is), but it doesn't seem to matter. 

In The Enemy (published by Dell in 2009), Jack Reacher (a military policeman) is brought into an investigation of a general found dead in a motel on New Year's. Soon, two more military personnel are discovered dead, and Reacher begins to piece together how these deaths connect and who could have been responsible. Meanwhile, he is urged to stop investigating and becomes a prime suspect himself. 

This wasn't  my favorite Reacher novel, but part of what labored my reading might have been my lack of expertise when it comes to the military. There were sections that I didn't quite understand because of this lack of knowledge, and I might have appreciated the book more had I known more. 

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