The SECRET
Lee Child
Synopsis
1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don’t appear to be connected. Until one body – the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window – generates some unexpected attention.
That attention comes from the Secretary of Defence, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army’s representative.
Reacher may be an exceptional soldier, but sweeping other people’s secrets under the carpet isn’t part of his skill set. As he races to discover the link between these victims, and who killed them, he must navigate around the ulterior motives of his new ‘partners’. And all while moving into the sight line of some of the most dangerous people he has ever encountered.
His mission is to uncover the truth. The question is: will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?
Richard says
A formulaic potboiler written by Lee Child and his brother, Andrew.
If you are a fan of Lee Child’s style of writing, this book fits the mould. The story develops as it should. Reacher is his old prosaic self, big, adept and fast, physically and intellectually.
Reacher is part of a disclaimed military trio of the US defamed personnel who are recruited to hunt down a serial killer. The serial killer is murdering scientists who had worked on a secret weapon for the US. The murders take place even with the super guarded technicians and it is up to the enlisted trio to discover the identity of the killer.
The killer is the interesting character of the story. Actually, the killer is a duo who are very skilled in their craft and in their capability of hunting down each scientist, each of whom is killed as they hunt for the list of the unnamed one. The duo pursue each as an act of revenge for the death of their father.
The plot has some twists and turns, which will have the reader working hard to unravel the various pieces of the puzzle.
Worth the time to read? Meh!
