In Too Deep is a recent Jack Reacher written by Lee and Andrew Child and was a little bit of a disappointment. It wasn’t a terrible reading experience, but there have been better entries into this series.’
It starts off promising enough when Reacher awakens handcuffed to some kind of gurney with a broken wrist and not sure how he landed in this predicament. He does manage a brutal escape, meets a suspended lady detective on a mission of vengeance, and unravels a plot that may have gotten a federal agent killed.
Andrew Child is apparently slated to take over the series started by his brother. It’s possible this installment is proof that the novelty of this fictional creation has worn off.
There are still some clever and amusing moments in spite of my overall sense of being underwhelmed.
The characters were not all that compelling. The female sidekick was not all that memorable. It was more of the same in that Reacher picks up another woman with an axe to grind as an ally. Of course, they hook up at some point.
I don’t necessarily mind writers sticking to some of their traditional schticks in their series, but this was getting a little too obvious.
Anyway, there is just not much to make this any sort of stand-out. Better luck next time, guys.
The next reading indulgence will take me to the bayous of Louisiana where a particularly nasty serial killer is indulging his perverse passions with The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart.
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