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Jack Reacher is an enigma. He walks alone, yet he seems to keep finding more than his share of trouble and adventure. In Lee Child’s latest thriller series, Personal , Reacher answers a newspaper advertisement and finds himself flown across the globe trying to find (and stop) a sniper with a personal vendetta against him, and a possible world leader in his scopes. Child brings us right into the action by giving a first person point of view narration. He also answers some questions about Reacher’s past, giving us a glimpse into the hero we know, on a more personal level. We discover more about his mother – Joséphine Moutier Reacher , and his greatest failure – Dominique Kohl . In chapter eighteen, Reacher visits his mother’s grave and shares some insight into where he may have inherited his heroism. ‘What did she do?’   ‘Resistance work. Allied airmen shot down in Holland or Belgium were funneled south through Paris. There was a network. Her part was to escort the...

“And there went out another horseman that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take piece from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given to him a great sword.”   Revelations 6:4 When Clive Cussler said, “ Nobody does it better than Stephen Coonts ”, he meant it, and The Red Horseman substantiates this claim. The fifth installment of the Jake Grafton series, the novel pits our hero in a race against time to retrieve stolen nuclear arsenal. However, it becomes complicated when rogue agents in his own government are hell-bent on making sure he fails. Throw in a couple of greedy Russian generals and a cruel, sadistic dictator and you’ve got a storyline that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Personally, I had some difficulty grasping the story toward the ending especially his description of dog fights and aviation terminology including the names of fighter planes. Thankfully, it was a brief part of the chapter or el...