The Affair

, #16

by

eBook, 608 pages

English language

Published March 27, 2012 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-33935-9
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3 stars (1 review)

Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997.

Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends. Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission— and turn him into a man to be feared.

2 editions

reviewed The Affair by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #16)

The File Is Real

3 stars

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.

Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense
  • Fiction, thrillers
  • Reacher, jack (fictitious character), fiction
  • Mississippi, fiction