Lee Child and his brother, Andrew, penned this. Mostly Andrew, I think.
This Jack chats and asks dumb questions. Well, not dumb but not what I expect of Reacher. Plus a Russian collusion. And he's gone all touchy-feely. Has Andrew read the Reacher series?
This book starts of like a Reacher novel -- trouble finding him. He gets off a bus and feels like some live music. He finds a bar, and one thing leads to another and he sets a few people right. This was a great start.
The band that he helped drops him off at a small sleepy town where (in time) he meets Rusty. A guy he saves from getting jumped. The cops arrive and he gets arrested. The guy he helped is the small town's most hated man. He fucked up the city. The town is under a Ransonware Attack. Really? The whole town. Rusty is blamed. But not all is as it seems, especially in a Reacher novel.
From here it kind of lingers on. Reacher starts doing non-Reacher stuff.
The plot is weak as fuck. BUT, a few of the latter Lee Child books were also found to be wanting.
I couldn't finish this book. I was near the end as well.
Bugger.
I always give new authors a two book chance or three books, so I will be buying Better off Dead, in due time.
