At last! Running Blind is finally an entry into the Jack Reacher series as good as the initial book Killing Floor. The central mystery is worth chewing over and will keep you wondering for the majority of the novel, and the amount of Reacher narrative versus anyone else's is kept to an absolute minimum. Because of the way the book was written, it avoided a great deal of Lee Child's weaknesses: the antagonist stays mysterious instead of characterized as an unredeemable comic evil supervillain and subplot characters are effectively non-existent so you don't have to suffer with poorly characterized and irrelevant passages.

It is awkward to write this review mainly slagging on Lee Child. But honestly Running Blind is a great thriller that's difficult to put down, and if you're here after 3 books, then you will be very happy to know that the negatives from the previous novels have been improved on. This is highly recommended and I'll probably even do a re-read.