Make Me

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Murderously eventful and intelligently composed 20th adventure of action hero Jack Reacher (JR), a former ‘downsized’ MP major without fixed abode, who has been discovering his fatherland for the past 13 years. Sublimely written, but what it really is about remains a mystery until the final pages. A book like an onion, with many layers. Therefore, lots of travel within the US.
A minor distraction is enough for JR to assume care of private eye Michelle Chang (ex-FBI) searching for a colleague, also ex-FBI. She looks for him in a small Oklahoma agro center called ‘Mother’s Rest’, where JR stepped off the train, intrigued because of its name. They fail to find him. Instead, they clash repeatedly with some of the locals who want them gone. What follows next is for readers to savor. After all, for fans, a new Jack Reader adventure is a joy to enjoy privately.
Re technical and security matters, two issues gradually raise their ugly heads: the deep internet and the role of workers in telecom companies. In Europe (from where I write), telecoms were state monopolies whose workers were thoroughly vetted before and during their employment for reliability re national security. After decades of privatizations worldwide, today’s telecom staff appears more vulnerable to indiscretion than ever. Heroes of other US crime writers always had their own private contacts within telecom outfits, but never as blatantly mercenary, corrupt and cash-based as in this book. If they can be so easily bought by JR and Michelle’s cash, what about crime syndicates, terrorists and other routine users of throwaway mobile phones? Lee Child’s picture of the Deep Web is unsettling in more than one respect. It exists, no doubt, full of evil content and impossible to reach for simple human beings. Why? Read this book.
Fortunately, Reacher’s reptile brain still forewarns the rest of his mind, instantly whirring its best logical outcome to his body to turn into a machine producing lightning feats of incapacitating or terminal violence, described in slow motion. As always, quite entertaining, but with one proviso. I find ’Mother’s Rest’ more reminiscent of an abstract Mondrian painting full of yellow with a few thin blue and black lines, crossing at right angles, than any farming region or community I’ve seen or read about. A community of ten? And a massive train stopping twice a day without letting passengers off or on, is straight from some SF novel or movie.

Geschreven bij Jack Reacher 20 - Make Me

Ietsjes te veel uitwijdend waardoor de aandacht verflauwt

Spannend!En wie kan er nu Jack Reacher weerstaan?

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Goed te lezen, leuk boek maar de spanning komt pas laat in het boek wat ik jammer vind.

Geschreven bij Jack Reacher 20 - Make Me

Uniek in zijn soort, als je een Jack Reacher hebt gelezen, wil je ze allemaal! Op een lang vlucht naar de U.S. lees je het fluitend in 1x uit -:)