It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds.

We learn about fifteen year old Jed, while living with foster parents, learns that his birth mother is dying of stage four pancreatic cancer and on her death bed finally tells him the truth about his father.The Child brothers know how to keep Reacher at the top of his game and series fans can revel in another wonderful thriller. If No Plan B had been written by a new-to-me author and with a protagonist not named Reacher, I would still have rated this 2. There's a guy who wants revenge, another looking for a long-lost someone, some very bad guys who don't want to get caught doing what they're doing and, of course, the raison d'etre that puts Reacher, at first inadvertently and then intentionally, in the middle of the whole mess.

Flying by the seat of his pants like usual, Reacher is about to show the evildoers they should have had a plan B. A lot of cardboard bad guys (two separate groups) that were all bland, uninteresting, and sounded the same. Reacher is one-dimensional now, with none of the charm or wit I’d expect, and it was the same-old plot of a female victim who has no advocate, so Reacher steps up. This book starts with the bad guys in a meeting, then flips to 3 days prior to the meeting, then moves ahead in time again. One of Waterstones’ very favourite authors, Lee Child sprang from redundancy at Granada Television in 1995 to rise to thriller-writing pre-eminence with his sequence of stories featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher.There are the bad guys who run a private prison system that has something to hide, a teenaged runaway looking for his father and an arsonist looking for revenge. As always, my sincere thanks to Lee and Andrew Child, Delacorte Press, and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of No Plan B!