Puerile nonsense devoid of plot or tension. The guy at the wheel touched a button and phone hiss filled the car, from all the speakers, like surround sound. No visits. The pace of the action was turgid and the ending was boring. Please try again. More like an equal choice. The book is tedious beyond belief, predictable, and with a coincidence to tie the story-lines together that could be spotted from page one. Two young Canadians trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. I've never read a novel of this genre that is this bad. Nothing wrong with Boston as a starting point. Patty rubbed her fingertip forward on the map, keeping pace with her estimate of their speed. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. . Sold by Chicago Fulfillment Center and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. Which for an army guy like Reacher was a little too full of Navy people, but which was otherwise a fine spot to start the winter. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. He had never been there either. None at all. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. “Is that OK?”, “No problem,” Reacher said. A classic Y-shaped junction. A tilted arrow to the left was labeled Portsmouth, and a tilted arrow to the right was labeled Laconia. No jams, no delays. He walked inland
Two separate stories being told in parallel, neither being very interesting and my enthusiasm was gone almost immediately. Mostly in the service. Does this book contain quality or formatting issues? Delacorte Press; First Edition (November 5, 2018). The main characters of this fiction, thriller story are , . It was something to do with an inspector from a municipal buildings department, and a metal flue liner above a fireplace in an entrance lobby, which was properly insulated, exactly up to code, except that couldn’t be proved visually without tearing down the stonework, which was by that point already three stories high, nearly done, with the masons booked on a new job starting the next week, or alternatively without ripping out the custom walnut millwork in the dining room on the other side of the chimney, or the millwork in the closet above, which was rosewood and even more complicated, but the inspector was being a hardass about it and needed to see for himself. Maybe even via Akron, Ohio. . The owners seem almost too friendly. Hello, Sign in. . Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. Both options ran out of sight through trees so mighty in places they made a tunnel. It reads like a model how to write a grade 'D' novel. ", "Tense and exciting, invoking elements of Psycho mixed with Stephen King. Please try again. He thinks, what's one extra day? But no one other than his father had any real information, and no one ever made any real attempt to get any from him. Like they had at gas stations, to ding a bell in the kiosk, to get the pump jockey out to help you. As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher. It seems like it.) The map showed tiny red spider-web lines here and there, like the veins in an old lady’s leg, which were presumably all tracks to somewhere, but nowhere big. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. Not once. Past Tense is an okayish Jack Reacher. For a second he wondered what would happen if they kept on going instead. Past Tense is the twenty-third book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. The car answered. He slowed the car and rolled along on a whisker of gas, which generated less new heat inside the engine, but which also put less airflow through the radiator vanes, so the old heat couldn’t get away so fast, so in the short term the temperature needle kept on climbing. . Meanwhile, Reacher is barred from returning to Laconia after getting in two separate fights, making him the target of both a corrupt local farmer and a crime syndicate based out of Boston. --The New York Times Book Review "[Lee Child] shows no signs of slowing down. “Maybe,” Shorty said. Instead he decided on a diagonal route, south and west, from the top right-hand corner of the country to the bottom left, maybe through Syracuse, and Cincinnati, and St. Louis, and Oklahoma City, and Albuquerque, and onward all the way to San Diego. Then Reacher makes a shocking discovery: The present can be tough, but the past can be tense .