Set in the Reacher Universe by permission of Lee Child
Jack Reacher is about to be murdered. By a man from the future...
Rock Wahlman…
Former Navy Master-At-Arms, Jack Reacher’s genetic duplicate, produced from a blood specimen that was drawn over a hundred years ago.
Recently recruited by a secret government agency called the FCYYC (the Federal Commission on Yesteryears and Years to Come), Wahlman is now a time-traveling operative, performing missions designed to protect Reacher from a faction called Topple—a rogue group of criminals determined to alter the past in an effort to make the future more profitable for themselves.
Topple has a new secret weapon, and they know that Reacher will be extremely vulnerable on a certain night in 1990. And this time, they plan to make sure that the FCYYC is not around to interfere…
Before being recruited as Jack Reacher’s time-traveling bodyguard, Rock Wahlman got chased and shot at and beat some bad guys senseless in The Reacher Experiment series of thrillers. Pulse-pounding action from the first page to the last!
The Reacher Experiment Series Dead Ringer Moving Target No Escape Kill Shot 357 Sunset Redline End Game Ricochet Gone
Back in the 1950's, one could go to a movie theater and see a double feature, usually prefaced by a newsreel, a cartoon (or two) and a serial adventure, all for the astonishing price of twenty-five cents. The serial was always reasonably short and every week left the hero with a cliffhanger ending to be resolved the following week. All of these Jude Hardin "Reacher" book have that 50's serial feel to them. Low budget, pedestrian dialogue and writing, and lots of action. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's good honest entertainment. But anyone looking for deep plots and lots of character development may be a little disappointed.
Rock Wahlman , his wife and daughter safely hidden in the year 1959, goes to another time zone to protect Jack Reacher. Since Rock is a clone of Jack Reacher, if Reacher is killed before his blood sample is drawn, Rock will cease to exist. Rock gets into a fight with another clone of Reacher.. The headquarters that Rock reports to has been infiltrated and most of the people killed. Rock escapes with Barbeau, an operative who is a double agent with the Topple organization.(fighting for the FCYYC).
Rocky Wahlman a time traveling special operative is the first of the Jack Reacher clones. He is on a mission with another operative to save Reachers from an assassination attempt. They traveled to the time and date Reacher lives in. The agent sent to kill Reacher works for Topple whose mission is to murder all of The Reacher clones by simply killing Jack Reacher. If that happens Wahlman dies also. An extremely fast paced action read. Enjoyed immensely!!
I am surprised that I enjoy this series so much and pleased that Rock is not Reacher but close enough to matter. The surrounding characters are just right and they are an anchor not seen in the real Reacher universe so that individualises the separate books but without destroying the underlying connections
Have read Dan Ames and Diane Capri. This series seems to be different in an interesting way. I’m reserving judgement until after the third story. Part 2 was somewhat predictable, more so than Part 1.
This work seems to be less than original. john claude van dam did a better job. that script is way similar to this book.While mixing futuristic with presented technology seems kind of far fetched.
Back in the future with rock again, it had been a while so it was nice to get re reacquainted with him. This book went by in a couple of hours, short, but sweet
Good read from different time zones which is interesting and Rock trying to stay in existance by keeping Reacher alive as he is a clone of Reacher and someone wants him dead .Do hope there is more .
Interesting time machine story featuring Jack Reacher clones. What’s not to like. Looking forward to Timestream 3 and a positive outcome for all the clones.
Another excellent adventure story fo!lowing the theme of the original Reacher Experiment. Thete were some surprising twists and turns, including the addiupn of Lucie. Book three to see where this goes!