Title: Blue Moon Pdf A Jack Reacher Novel
“Jack Reacher is today’s James Bond, a thriller hero we can’t get enough of.”—Ken Follett
“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.”
This isn’t one of those times.
Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right.
An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs.
Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she’s letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It’s a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice . . . the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
Reacher is Back!!! I have read every Jack Reacher novel and generally looked forward to a new release like that of a favorite band or movie. Anticipation and excitement! In this case I got my copy of “Blue Moon”, grabbed a bag of Fritos and a cold drink and settled in for a good read.I was slightly hesitant, because the last two Reacher novels were not very good – at least not by Lee Child’s standards. The parts of Reacher that resonated most with readers had been missing. The last two novels felt like they had been phoned in. I was worried that maybe Jack Reacher had hit the end of the road…I had nothing to worry about it – Reacher is back! All of the character traits that made Jack Reacher a great protagonist are back in style. He calculates the physics of a thrown punch. He helps the downtrodden and beats up the bad guys. He prefers sitting in the back seat of cars because he’s so big and doesn’t like to drive!Without spilling too much detail, Reacher befriends the Shevicks, an elderly couple who is down on their luck. They’re in a jam with the worst kind of mobsters and Reacher jumps in with both feet to help them out. In the end, he takes on multiple gangs, wins every fight and gets the girl…Yes, Lee Child has a formula – and it’s a simple one. Make the bad guys bad, the victims sad and put Reacher into the mix. This time he gets a little help from some other bit players, but it’s mostly Reacher’s game. The plots are not complicated and there are holes in the story lots of “What-ifs” if you want to dig deep, but it’s great summer reading and all the pieces of the puzzle don’t need to be perfect for the tale to be told.I ended up reading most of the book in one evening; the rest the next morning – a very satisfying read.For fans of Lee Child and Jack Reacher, you will enjoy this book!Reacher in peak form, nothing better There's a strict formula to Reacher novels: big man gets off a bus in a small town, bumps into bad men doing bad things to decent people.In this case, it's an unnamed town ruled by rival factions of Ukrainians and Albanians, and an older couple in deep to a loan shark on the Ukraine side. Reacher steps in, intending to do one small good deed, but things escalate -- as they tend to do, in Reacher's world -- and within a day, Reacher finds himself in the middle of an escalating gang war, where the two factions agree on only one thing: get rid of the big ugly guy. His only real ally: a younger, dark-haired waitress who likes to "do one thing a day that scares me " and gets involved in the action for no good reason, really, but she's fun, so why not?After twenty-something books, Lee Child has the formula dialed in. Some outings are better than others, and this is right at the top. The action starts immediately and does not let up. I had to put the book down periodically just to settle my nerves; Reacher does not get that chance himself. He's dealing with not one, but two, sets of bad guys, with an ugly assist from a broken health care and judicial system that put the old folks in this situation in the first place. There's also a welcome steady pulse of humor in the book, as when the waitress notes to Reacher as he prepares to go after two men in a car, "They both have guns," to which he responds, "For now. In a minute I will have them."As usual, it becomes impossible to see how Reacher is ever going to solve these problems; and as usual, he does, in ways that are both blunt force and crafty.Sometimes I do wish that Reacher would evolve a bit; I was sad, a few books ago, when Lee Child raised the possibility of Reacher having a daughter; it would be good to see his universe expand a bit, to expand the stakes of his life. But as long as he's living like a modern day Shane, riding into town, kicking butt, and riding out again, I'll admit: no one does it better.Initially Comic Plot Soon Turns to Bloody Carnage In the beginning, BLUE MOON: A JACK REACHER NOVEL is comical (like a Donald Westlake novel), as Reacher inadvertently sets off a Ukrainian/Albanian gang war by killing two Albanian quick-loan enforcers. The rival gangs’ misinformed leaders (Dino, Gregory) start knocking off each other’s men, two by two, as they try to keep the score even. But the fun soon shifts to grim bloody carnage, once the gang leaders identify Reacher as the catalyst for their losses.In the novel, Reacher thwarts the robbery of an old man (Aaron Shevick), takes Shevick’s place in repaying an Albanian mafia loan, and then becomes personally committed to recovering money that Shevick desperately needs. Shevick’s daughter was severely wronged by the now-missing head (Trulenko) of a startup software company, who pocketed the company’s cash and let it go bankrupt. The Ukrainians are protecting Trulenko, who still has the cash.Both the Albanian and Ukrainian capos eventually--and still mistakenly--decide that “Shevick” (actually Reacher) is a person sent in by outsiders to start a gang war and let the rivals knock each other off so that the outsiders can move in. Can Reacher stay out of the gangs’ grasp for long enough to set things right for Shevick?The novel is an exciting page turner with a lot of drama. While it’s unlikely that Reacher’s complex tactics would have succeeded in real life, they’re totally believable in the context of the novel. The supporting characters (Abby, Hogan, Barton, Vantresca, Aaron and Maria Shevick) are likeable and interesting. Jack Reacher fans won’t be disappointed, as Reacher performs at his crusader best.
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