 – Customer review on 27/02/2007
Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop, mustered out from the Army with no real ties to anything. After being born abroad and spending most of his life travelling the world either as the son of a military man or in service himself, Jack Reacher yearns to see his more of home country. Jack Reacher is a wanderer of no fixed abode and an anti-hero. He deals out justice in the manner that he sees fit. No longer in the service, no longer playing by anybody elses rules.
On some vague memory of a long since dead guitarist, Reacher leaps off a bus in the middle of nowhere and wanders 14 miles in the rain into Margraves - a small, idyllic little town where things are not quite what they seem. Within minutes of his arrival, Reacher is arrested for murder and from there, things get more and more twisted. Action, violence, corruption, romance and mystery aplenty ensue.
Killing Floor is the kind of novel that constantly keeps you guessing as to what on earth really IS going on, and Child keeps you turning the pages with an expert ability to perfectly control the pace of the narrative.
I've never been much of a reader - five books in as many years was about my limit. This is the first in the series of Jack Reacher novels, and the book that REALLY got me into reading regularly. So far I'm up to book number 4 in as many MONTHS, and I just can't get enough.
For some odd reason however, this book is in the first person while the other three are not. (However I understand that Child once again returns to the first person narrative in subsequent books.) The first person allows you to get inside the head of Jack Reacher and see that he is not the perfect hero, he has failings and this only serves to make him more human, more likeable and makes the books all the better to read. A perfect introduction to an excting, fast-paced, gripping series!
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