Killing Floor Jack Reacher Review

Killing floor is the debut novel by lee child first published in 1997 by putnam the book won the anthony award and barry award for best first novel.

Killing floor jack reacher review.

The complete review s review. Praise for killing floor a people magazine page turner a barry award winner an anthony award winner all jack reacher novels are ripping yarns but. Welcome to margrave georgia but don t get too attached to the townsfolk who are either in on a giant conspiracy or hurtling toward violent deaths or both. But i can trace his and the book s genesis backward at least to new year s eve 1988.

And killing floor gave me jack reacher a literary badass to rival the two of them in brawn and rival sherlock in brains. I was hooked from the first sentence. Is introduced to readers in child s first novel killing floor. Jack reacher made his first appearance in print on march 17 1997 st.

The enemy set eight years before killing floor and published in 2004 night school set one year before killing. Violent addictive complex unpredictable and personal. There s not much of a welcome for jack reacher a casualty of the army s peace dividend who s drifted into town idly looking for traces of a long dead black jazzman. The plot is well paced and the set pieces in particular are what i admire most in child s writing.

I found the action scene involving. Jack reacher ex military cop. Jack reacher steps off a bus. Killing floor does present a less refined reacher but also reminds us that some basic themes town in the middle of nowhere a secret an attractive lady cop started from book one.

Trained to think fast and act faster he is the perfect modern hero for our troubled world. The novel has three prequels. Not only do the local cops arrest him for murder but the chief of. Reacher has deduction skills sherlock holmes would respect and is such an expert in the art of war that it makes him a perfect modern day superhero in the terrible modern day world he finds himself returning.

Rough tough and independent. Killing floor wins awards for best corrupt southern town in a summer novel and best exploding warehouse stephen king entertainment weekly combines high suspense with almost nonstop action. Reacher has spent almost his entire life in the military first as a military brat growing up all over the world then attending west point then serving mainly in the military police. Killing floor is an excellent first entry into the brutal world of jack reacher.

Killing floor is the first in the phenomenally successful series featuring jack reacher. For want of nothing better to do reacher stops off in a small town as a famous blues singer was reputed to have died there. It also is the first book to feature the character jack reacher it is written in the first person. Meet jack reacher the first book in the phenomenal bestselling jack reacher series killing floor introduces reacher as the tough ex military cop of no fixed abode.