A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. However, Jack Widow at the time of publication of this book would be only 18 years old. The clear narrative here is that Jack Widow is somehow the son of Jack Reacher and the beautiful Sheriff, who made love to the vibrations of the train roaring near the hotel every midnight in The Affair in 1997. This is also a clear attempt to piggyback on the success of Lee Child's Jack Reacher Padding out the length with verbiage is a well-worn author's trick. The main problem is the excessive detail, minute descriptions of everything, including clothes, people, places and even dishes and silverware. Some action sequences are adequate, and the plot is passable. This is also a clear attempt to piggyback on the success of Lee Child's Jack Reacher The clear narrative here is that Jack Widow is somehow the son of Jack Reacher and the beautiful All-in-all, this is a very uneven first book. With one thumb out, he hits the road to track down the father that doesn't know he exists, but what he gets instead is a small town with a deadly secret and a distraught husband fighting to find his missing wife.Īll-in-all, this is a very uneven first book. To know his father Cameron follows in his footsteps-literally. In true Reacher fashion, he snuffed out the bad guys and said goodbye to a beautiful woman.īut this time, he left something behind-a son.Ĭameron learns at his mother's deathbed that his father is some drifter named Jack Reacher.Īrmed with Reacher genes and his sheriff mother's relentless upbringing, Cameron sets out into the world to Get Jack Reacher. In The Affair, Reacher was sent to a small town to solve a crime. Set in the world of #1 International Bestseller Lee Child's Jack Reacher. Cameron learns at his mother's deathb MEET CAMERON REACHER. But this time, he left something behind-a son. In true Reacher fashion, he snuffed out the bad guys and said goodbye to a beautiful woman. But I do hope there are sequels, at least one.MEET CAMERON REACHER. I liked that the film had a legitimate beginning and end, even if there are subsequent Jack Reacher tales to follow, there was no gaping wide open door of a final scene leaving the audience wondering 'What's up with that?!?'. Everything just seemed to be genuine and authentic, even though I know that the fights are staged they looked logistically correct, but Steven Segal did come to mind. There were so many attributes of this film that I liked, including the sexual tension between Reacher and Helen Ronin (Rosamund Pike) that I will just sum it up by saying. One of the best car chase scenes that I've seen lately was in this film. When he was the head of a company experimenting on Apes, I was again thoroughly convinced and I believed every aspect of his being a police detective. When he played a pilot in Red Tails, I totally believed he could fly a plane. David Oyelowo (Emerson) is one to watch, he is building an impressive resume and it is easy to see why because whenever he portrays a character he is that character. It shows that Reacher is bad a$$ without playing out every aspect of the story. The trailer is the only kind that I like, the ones that do not give away the whole movie. I've just come to expect to see him running, really running but we are getting older. The only thing missing was his trademark sprint to or after something or anything. Cruise the expectation is that it will be fast paced and very entertaining, same here. Duvall always delivers a convincing performance, same here. The comedy was heightened even further with the old codger Cash (Robert Duvall). There was even a scene in which Reacher is attacked in a bathroom that had me cracking up at the bumbling bad guys. I was surprised at how funny the dialogue in this film was, it is definitely not a comedy, but the sarcastic and comedic one-liners kept coming, even in situations that were completely devoid of a humorous setting there was some very amusing conversation. The army training came in quite handy as he digs into the evidence of a heinous crime that turns out to be not at all what it seems to be on the surface. Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is the tale of a very astute ex-military policeman.