Pun Salad

The latest Reacher novel from the Childs. (Children?) And, again, they have succeeded in separating me from $14.99 (Kindle version).

The beginning is pretty gripping: Reacher regains consciousness to find that he's been cuffed to a metal table, hands and feet. Worse, one arm is broken, and he's slightly concussed. Even worse, he has no memory of how he got into this predicament.

Since he's Reacher, he quickly outwits one of his captors and frees himself. But only to be plunged into a devious criminal conspiracy. It turns out he had accepted a car ride from one of the conspirators, only to wind up in a nasty accident on twisty Ozark road, which killed the driver. So now what? Well, of course: pretend to be a willing accomplice in the criminal activities, and…

I admit: I got about halfway through the book and said: Oh oh, I have no idea what's going on here. It may be my age. But, gee, the plot is as twisty as that Ozark road, and new characters keep showing up, all the characters are liars, and… well, I started over from page one, and finally made it through. And it eventually made sense, although I didn't think about it too hard. I even managed to figure out one of the Big Plot Twists before Reacher does. (Or at least, I figured it out before Reacher mentioned it.)

Bottom line: another enjoyable Reacher outing. But you might want to take notes along the way Pay special attention to the activities at the crash scene.