Review: 61 Hours
61 Hours by Lee Child
Genre: Thriller
Published: May 2010 by Delacorte Press
Rating: 4½ of 5 stars
61 Hours is a fast-paced thrill ride providing an entertaining, escapist read.
Jack Reacher is hitching a ride on a tourist bus when it crashes in a snow storm in South Dakota. Forced to wait out the storm in a nearby small town he soon discovers that this is not your ordinary quiet little town. A gang of bikers are cooking meth, dead bodies are turning up, a jail-break is rumored to be eminent and a witness is being threatened by an unknown assassin. Reacher, a ex-military man, an MP, is drawn into the affair and agrees to help out risking his own life in the process.
Jack Reacher is the kind of guy you want to have around when trouble is brewing. He sees things the local police don’t pick up, his army experience and connections give him an advantage and at times his knowledge seems too good to be true. And that’s what I liked about him, he gets things done whatever it takes.
I enjoyed this book. The writing was crisp and clean, the dialog snappy and the story line easy to follow. The suspense builds as the plot unfolds. It’s one of those books that make you stay up too late because you want to know what is going to happen next.
This is the 14th novel in the Reacher series but it is the first one I have read. While having read previous novels would probably have helped me understand Reacher a little better, it wasn’t necessary for me to enjoy this book. You can read the books in any order. The author provided enough background detail for me to easily follow along. That said, I now want to read the rest of them if they are as good as this one.
One additional point to mention: Although I would consider this a stand alone story there are several unanswered questions at the end of this novel that presumably will be continued in the next book, Worth Dying For, which will be published later this year.
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Source: Review Copy provided by the publisher.
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