The Affair

paperback, 578 pages

Published Sept. 27, 2011 by Random House Large Print.

ISBN:
978-0-7393-7848-9
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reviewed The Affair by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #16)

The File Is Real

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A prequel set just before book 1, The Affair tells how Reacher gets pushed out of the Army. The Army sends him to Carter Crossing Mississippi, where a young woman has been murdered and the town thinks the perpetrator must've been a soldier from the nearby Kelham Army Base.

This episode takes us back to early Reacher novels, where he can't put a foot wrong at all.

Including the sex scenes. Reacher can't do wrong, but Lee Child certainly does. These should have been whittled down a lot.