Affair

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Lee Child: Affair (2011, Transworld Publishers Limited)

432 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2011 by Transworld Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-593-06570-9
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4 stars (19 reviews)

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2 stars

The return to Jack’s past, just a few months before the Killing Floor and while he’s still in the military, is a big miss for me. The previous two novels actually had subtle interconnections and breaking that chain was an irritation. Worse: I don’t really recall the supporting characters that are Jack’s friends and don’t care how immature they were about ten years ago in 1997.

I do appreciate the subtle callouts to Jack’s future, and how this case really prepared him into the wandering avenger he is today.

Where this book really went wrong is the return to “Jack gets the Girl”. It’s bad. It’s cringe bad. The number of graphic sex scenes (and length) is masturbatory. I skipped them as they were utterly irrelevant and effectively pornographic.

There are plenty of other Jack Reacher novels. You don’t need to read this one.

The ending also felt ridiculous, since …

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Subjects

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