No Plan B: The unputdownable new 2022 Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors (Jack Reacher, 27)

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Jack sees what really happened - a man in grey hoodie and jeans, swift and silent as a shadow, pushing the victim to her death, before grabbing her bag and sauntering away. Things began a little shakily, but they appear to have righted themselves with this explosive thriller once more. Since there wasn't enough intrigue to pull me into the plot, I had plenty of time to be irked by the writing style.

In No Plan B, Reacher goes for the most over-the-top violence that was inconsistent with his character. She has picked up the same desire for justice that pushes Reacher forward and, once she confirmed Reacher was one of the good guys, understood that he would be the perfect person to hitch on to. While Reacher and another Colorado local try to peel things back, which include a trip to Mississippi, a young boy has begun a trek across the country to flee a troubled home life. It did not follow the usual MO for Reacher's travails and was too choppy from one scene to another, one character to another.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I'd have much preferred a much slower and more considered approach to the entire story, focussing, as in the past, on the arrival, the fatal character flaws of the antagonists, a more subtle reveal of the real intentions behind the Minerva Corporation and just generally a story more redolent of how a drifter like Reacher would have approached it. Thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, Delacorte Press through Netgalley for an advance copy.

There’s a crime sitting behind all of the mystery at the center of this book, but it’s really only presented as an aside with very little substance provided. This could not have been written by Lee Child (Andrew Child is listed as a co-author), and I doubt Lee had anything to do with it or even read it.

This book starts with the bad guys in a meeting, then flips to 3 days prior to the meeting, then moves ahead in time again.

Co-written by the series creator Lee Child and his brother Andrew Child, it was released on October 25, 2022. I liked the way the story alternated between Reacher himself and the bad guys and it had a certain pace and rhythm that made me enjoy it. After a brief confrontation with a few men who might have been part of the killer’s group, he gets a glance inside the victim’s purse, where he learns a little more about her, including that she is far from her Mississippi home, where she works in a prison. After arriving in a small Colorado town, Jack Reacher witnesses a young woman tossed in front of a bus, before the purported killer left with her purse. The details, of course, I can't reveal, except to say there's never a dull moment; all points converge at the end, and readers learn what happens to all the people who started off as strangers but end up as, well, you'll have to read it for yourself to find that out.There's a guy who wants revenge, another looking for a long-lost someone, some very bad guys who don't want to get caught doing what they're doing and, of course, the raison d'etre that puts Reacher, at first inadvertently and then intentionally, in the middle of the whole mess. Instead we get side story about a runaway, we get a side story about the bad guys and we get a side story about another bad guy who has nothing to do with the main bad guys (until later).