Worth Dying For
Oct. 18th, 2014 03:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearThe fifteenth Jack Reacher book is the funniest yet - by far.
It's basically a 1940s screwball comedy with a hint of Weekend at Bernie's and probably more setting people on fire than you would normally get in a 1940s screwball comedy.
Reacher finds suspicious goings-on in a small town in Nebraska and decides to investigate. Eventually, there are four different sets of goons all running round town looking for him and also double-crossing each other.
It had me laughing out loud on the street (and on the tube) throughout, though the mystery, when eventually solved, turned out to be the most horrific of any Reacher book so far, which put a slight dampner on things for a while.
Perhaps people being crippled, shot, stuffed in car trunks and set on fire shouldn't be funny - but it really was.
It's basically a 1940s screwball comedy with a hint of Weekend at Bernie's and probably more setting people on fire than you would normally get in a 1940s screwball comedy.
Reacher finds suspicious goings-on in a small town in Nebraska and decides to investigate. Eventually, there are four different sets of goons all running round town looking for him and also double-crossing each other.
It had me laughing out loud on the street (and on the tube) throughout, though the mystery, when eventually solved, turned out to be the most horrific of any Reacher book so far, which put a slight dampner on things for a while.
Perhaps people being crippled, shot, stuffed in car trunks and set on fire shouldn't be funny - but it really was.
