The 17th full novel in the Jack Reacher series, A Wanted Man continues the series formula, which has worked for Child so far and works again here. Reacher is a solid protagonist and you never go wrong reading on of these books. The first thing that struck me in this book is that it carries over some threads from the previous novel in the series, and leaves some threads at the end for the next novel in the series. This may not seem that odd, but for a Reacher novel it is. Except for three books early in the series that were also mildly connected, the Reacher novels are fairly stand alone, never referencing the events of previous books. You could pick up a novel in the middle of the series without ever reading any of the others, and the experience of reading it would be the same. That isn’t… Read more »
