Pursued by Ukrainian assassins
This is Lee Child’s 20th Jack Reacher novel. Hopefully it’s not the last.
Book: Make Me
Author: Lee Child
Reviewed by: Samantha Keogh
Review made possible by: Penguin Random House
Awaken Jack Reacher and you awaken the dragon.
Former military policeman Reacher goes where the mood takes him, his only belongings are the clothes on his back and what’s in his pockets.
So it is that he arrives in the small prairie town of Mother’s Rest.
Why it’s called Mother’s Rest no-one seems to know but rather than some latter day cow-town, he finds a railway siding, some grain silos and acres and acres of wheat.
And Michelle Chang, who obviously has a major problem.
Chang, former FBI agent and current private investigator, has been unable to link up with her partner – in fact he seems to have disappeared. Reacher joins the search.
A one-eyed hotelier, a two-shirted general dealer, a jumpy spare parts vendor and a carefully coiffed man in ironed jeans, who seems to be their leader, are just some of the people who are taciturn to the point of eccentricity – and don’t know or won’t say why Mothers Rest is called Mother’s Rest.
When two cousins try to strong-arm Reacher and Chang into leaving town and two people arriving by train are put up for the night in a motel and collected the next morning by a limousine it becomes obvious that the good citizens of Mother’s Reach have something to hide.
What begins as a missing persons case becomes far more sinister as the pair – assisted by a science journalist – visit the roughest parts of Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, pursued by a dwindling number (thanks to Reacher’s expertise) of Ukrainian assassins and other thugs.
They have to dive the deepest part of the hidden internet to find out what is really going on in the small town where Mother is not the only person who might go to rest.
This is Lee Child’s 20th Jack Reacher novel.
Hopefully it’s not the last.
