Book #17 chronologically, after One Shot (2005) and before Bad Luck and Trouble (2007):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Reacher_(book_series)#In-story_chronology

Excellent story line from a great writer!

Not my favorite Reacher book. I figured out a major 'surprise' very early and it was just irritating that no characters seemed to even consider it. Others commenting mention it as well, so it is not that I am an amazing detective...it was just lazy to write so many characters to be so obtuse. But the action is satisfying and the detective work is great up until he misses the big one.

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Jack Reacher has to work through the evidence to find a resolution to the situation. Because the series has similar structures, the breadcrumb clues can be spotted if you are a bit alert. In the book's "afterward" part, the presented fact that Reacher has no second thoughts about what has happened does take away from his character as his personality becomes closer to "nemesis" than human.

I've been whipping through the Jack Reacher books at about one a month for the past year or so, and not in order (having bought most of them as i see them from the Friends of the Library bookstore). While I acknowledge that they are genre books, I did find this one a bit formulaic, with plot insights that i had before Reacher did. However, that opinion's partly a consequence of the number of books in this series that I have read in such a short time, perhaps.

Another great jack reacher story!

This is an excellent detective-thriller. It's better than the only other Jack Reacher novel I've read - The Persuader.

Lots of fun twists in the story. Far fewer fights than in the Persuader. Lower body count. This is more of a detective story than an action blow-em-up.

Great read. Hard to put down. Page turner.

Another great thriller without the usual paragraph fillers - numbers, road descriptions, and painstaking directions. This novel is set in New York city and, later, in a small town in the Norfolk area in England. The novel starts off like a kidnap, but Child has other storyline ideas to pursue here. You might guess mid-way through the book what has happened as Child leaves some good clues. Full of gory details of the walking wounded and those not left to walk. Reacher's sexual attraction to the older retired investigator does not ring true and that part of the storyline could be omitted without affecting the action/outcome.

I thought this book was a great read, although the end was a little anti-climatic.