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1. A heartbeat away by jack reacher full#
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3. A heartbeat away by jack reacher free#

It looks like natural causes - a heart attack just as he was getting ready to have sex - but the circumstances, locale - a motel in the middle of nowhere -, and the fact that his briefcase seems to be missing bother Reacher.Īnd even if it was a natural death, finding the general's wife dead - her head bashed in a few hours after her husband's untimely demise a few hundred miles away - suggests that there's more to this.Ī continent away, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and the times, they are a-changing.Ĭlearly, what's happening abroad - especially the surely imminent collapse of the Soviet Union - also means great change for the military, and a lot of military types are getting nervous. The Enemy begins with him being called to the scene of a death - not on base, but of a two-star general, Kramer, in a motel, found in a somewhat compromising position. He's lived the military life from birth and, at this point, it's also completely natural for him to take it for granted: "I'm still in the military. Reacher is used to being redeployed at the drop of a dime, and he has certainly been around - "I can only put together about five years' worth of actual residency in the continental U.S.". The novel opens late New Year's Eve going into 1990, and Reacher is still in the army, a twenty-nine-year-old major in the Military Police, recently stationed in Panama as part of Operation Just Cause (to take down Manuel Noriega) but just a few days earlier reassigned to Fort Bird, North Carolina - technically as the Provost Marshal's executive officer, but since he was transferred out the same day Reacher was transferred in, Reacher is the acting MP CO on the large base. Here, Reacher isn't yet the loner crisscrossing the United States without any baggage or ties.

A heartbeat away by jack reacher series#

The Enemy is the eighth novel featuring Jack Reacher, but the series does not unfold chronologically and this installment looks back to earlier times.

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They avoid the ugliness of an action hero with too free a hand." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times It is worth underscoring that these books, while crackling with assertiveness, do not present Reacher as a loose cannon.

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In a world full of changing boundaries and moral ambiguities, he emerges as a classic noir loner, and a very charismatic one, despite his willingness and ability to inflict damage on those who he thinks deserve it. "(M)ost of The Enemy concentrates on the widening military murder plot, and on defining Reacher as a determined enforcer."Reacher remains engaging and charming in his own emotionally handicapped way, and Child again emerges as a worthy successor to Tom Clancy." - Rebecca Ascher-Walsh, Entertainment Weekly.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : solid (military-)police procedural, with a few silly excesses Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs.