Not for Reacher fans - choppy, confusing, brutal, and stupid
The book has nothing to do with Jack Reacher, except she once knew him, and his name is on an envelope that is never explained. Reacher books are written in a clear, comfortable narrative, but this is broken up among three narratives with choppy 2-4 page chapters. My pet peeve. Maybe some folks like that.
Then you must disable your intelligence to bear it. These are probably nit-picking: Starting with my pet peeve - the mythical, impossible nose strike that drives cartilage through bone, into the brain. This has never happened in the real world, and I see it is the mark of an ignorant, lazy writer, after all the years. Stu-pid.
Gunshots in the doorway of the house, and cops show up coincidentally five minutes later. They don't notice the gunsmoke or exploded plaster, and didn’t get a call from the neighbors? Stu-pid.
The Reacher-like guy, Tallon, we know only by name. No description or background, like most of the characters. He seems capable, and after he kills (nose strike) and injures a pair who had tried to abduct the wife, he fails even check the car that he knew they used or get the plate, when they are investigating that company. Stupid.
Then the plot is based on bizarre brutal sadistic torture “experiments” aimed at a nuclear war to reduce population, saving only those he vaccinated against radiation? Completely impossible to vaccinate against cell damage,, and most people won't die of radiation anyway in a nuke war. Stupid squared.
A truck of “Nuclear material “?? "Enough to wipe out most of California?" We don't know they are weapons or what. Stupid.
The villain "Is a Doctor of medicine and a Doctor of philosophy?? One is not a doctor of philosophy. You have one. Stupid.
He says you can hear a predator drone, even over the prop from a nearby prop plane. I don’t think so.