Jack Reacher - any good?

[Welshbeef]

NDA said:

Ben Hope - all read
Roy Grace - all read
Jack Reacher - all read
Elvis Cole - all read

Now hunting for another series.....

I can highly recommend the Jack Caccery series by Mo Hayden cracking reads some extremely disturbing.

[NDA]

TheJimi said:

NDA said:

Ben Hope - all read
Roy Grace - all read
Jack Reacher - all read
Elvis Cole - all read

Now hunting for another series.....

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch?

Cool. Will check him out. Many thanks.

[NDA]

Welshbeef said:

I can highly recommend the Jack Caccery series by Mo Hayden cracking reads some extremely disturbing.

I've just downloaded the firs Harry Bosche..... Jack Caccery might have to wait.

But thanks for the recommendation.

[K50 DEL]

Just finished the latest Reacher.... "Never Go Back"

Definately a return to form, I felt the last couple of books to be somewhat weak compared to earlier efforts.
This one had me gripped from the first couple of pages and I read it in 2 sittings!

[LordGrover]

I'm too tight.
I'll wait until the price drops - £7.20 is way too rich for my blood. I've read the others and they were all less than £4 each IIRC.

[Bluequay]

I watched the film and enjoyed it as a standalone piece, but for me this was just a guy called Jack Reacher, not the character from the novels.

[BeansOnToast]

NDA said:

Ben Hope - all read
Roy Grace - all read
Jack Reacher - all read
Elvis Cole - all read

Now hunting for another series.....

I would also recommend Jack Noble by L.T. Ryan. Pretty new to the scene, only 2 or 3 books at present, but I enjoyed them. Currently free (kindle download) on amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/Noble-Intentions-Season-Ep...

[Welshbeef]

Bluequay said:

I watched the film and enjoyed it as a standalone piece, but for me this was just a guy called Jack Reacher, not the character from the novels.

I thought it was a very poor adaptation of the book cut out so much missed so many key characters and storyline , last but not least Tom Cruise made a very poor JR it should have been Liam Neeson no question a perfect fit.

[NDA]

TheJimi said:

NDA said:

Ben Hope - all read
Roy Grace - all read
Jack Reacher - all read
Elvis Cole - all read

Now hunting for another series.....

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch?

Wow..... Thanks. I am now on the last book and really enjoyed them. Started in September following your post.

P p p p please give me another recommendation.

[Welshbeef]

NDA said:

TheJimi said:

NDA said:

Ben Hope - all read
Roy Grace - all read
Jack Reacher - all read
Elvis Cole - all read

Now hunting for another series.....

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch?

Wow..... Thanks. I am now on the last book and really enjoyed them. Started in September following your post.

P p p p please give me another recommendation.

You've read 18 books in under 6 months! How?

[NDA]

Welshbeef said:

You've read 18 books in under 6 months! How?

I don't watch much TV and I commute.... I do read a lot.

[Rollcage]

18 books in 6 months is not a very taxing target - I reckon I could read three a week if I wanted to, and didn't have much on apart from work.

[Welshbeef]

Rollcage said:

18 books in 6 months is not a very taxing target - I reckon I could read three a week if I wanted to, and didn't have much on apart from work.

Family/kids etc

[NDA]

Welshbeef said:

Family/kids etc

When the kids go to bed, I read..... When I commute for several hours a day, I read..... Plus, stuff like Harry Bosche is quite light, I couldn't do the works of Dickens or Shakespeare in six months.

[droopsnoot]

How about the Logan MacRae series by Stuart MacBride?

[Halmyre]

droopsnoot said:

How about the Logan MacRae series by Stuart MacBride?

They're police/detective thrillers rather than the 'wandering vigilante' genre. No less enjoyable though. Having said that, I've just read 'Flesh House' and the ending left me a bit dissatisfied.

[droopsnoot]

Funnily enough that's the last one I read as well - I didn't do them in order as I bought them as I found them, and his latest release is another Ash Henderson.

[Welshbeef]

How about the Harry Hole series ? Jo Nesbo.

Thick and deep plot lines with many misguided angles - also very brutal

[Halmyre]

Many of Christopher Brookmyre's books have recurring characters and elements of the thriller/shoot-em-up genre. Very funny as well, although you might need the ear for a Scottish accent with some of them. And there's anothe Scottish author, Craig Russell, who's written three or four novels in the 'Lennox' series about a private detective based in 1950s Glasgow.

[Rollcage]

Different genre, but I enjoy the Richard Montanari detective series with Jessica Balzano and Kevin Byrne as the central characters.