Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child, another Reacher book, reassembles the remnants of his old special investigator squad to take vengeance on some unknown who has killed half of them. Of course, it can't be just about them, so there's a terrorism plot to foil, and tension between the two. For a few brief moments the macGuffin of the the terrorism bit made me think of the terrific Such Men are Dangerous by what the hell is his name? It's an apt echo, though: they both are stripped-down, action-packed narratives, with tough, tight-lipped, self-reliant protagonists. ****
Click on the header to read a NYTimes review; click on his name to visit Lee Child's home page.
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