If you had the chance to get revenge on an unforgivable enemy, would you? Jack Reacher certainly would, and now it is strictly personal. In the past few weeks, I was able to complete The Persuader by Lee Child. In this book, Jack Reacher is an ex-military cop who gets involved in a missing person case. Two agents ask for his help to find a kidnapped DEA agent because the case needs to be off the books for legal reasons. Jack accepts their request, not only to help them but also to get revenge on an old enemy, Quinn. The story concludes with intense scenes of Reacher using his skills and strategies to corner Quinn and bust the whole operation while getting the missing agent back safe and sound. I also am 135 pages into reading Make Me by Lee
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Jack Reacher happens upon a small desert town named Mother’s Rest. A woman named Michelle Chang approaches, mistaking him for her missing partner whose name is Keever. They start talking about her situation and Reacher decides to help her to find out the truth: what happened to Keever? The fact that he is missing gives Chang a great amount of worry as shown in this quote: “‘I know, he’s probably fine. He’s based out of Oklahoma City. It’s entirely possible that he had to run back for some other business. He’d have used the train, because of the roads’” (Child 24). There were several things that could have happened, including that maybe he simply took a vacation. In my opinion, I think there is a more dubious group involved. Reacher thinks this too because the locals in the town are acting very suspicious. Certain people in the town must know what happened to Keever and they do not want Chang to find out. A group of ten men even come up to Reacher’s and Chang’s rooms, forcing them to pack up and leave. At this point in the story, the reader does not know why the town is so hostile to Jack and Michelle. However, the reader already knows that Keever is dead because of the very first sentence of the book. It says “Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn’t easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house” (Child 1). The truth behind why he is dead, I have yet to find
Jack Reacher happens upon a small desert town named Mother’s Rest. A woman named Michelle Chang approaches, mistaking him for her missing partner whose name is Keever. They start talking about her situation and Reacher decides to help her to find out the truth: what happened to Keever? The fact that he is missing gives Chang a great amount of worry as shown in this quote: “‘I know, he’s probably fine. He’s based out of Oklahoma City. It’s entirely possible that he had to run back for some other business. He’d have used the train, because of the roads’” (Child 24). There were several things that could have happened, including that maybe he simply took a vacation. In my opinion, I think there is a more dubious group involved. Reacher thinks this too because the locals in the town are acting very suspicious. Certain people in the town must know what happened to Keever and they do not want Chang to find out. A group of ten men even come up to Reacher’s and Chang’s rooms, forcing them to pack up and leave. At this point in the story, the reader does not know why the town is so hostile to Jack and Michelle. However, the reader already knows that Keever is dead because of the very first sentence of the book. It says “Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn’t easy. It was like trying to wrestle a king-size mattress off a waterbed. So they buried him close to the house” (Child 1). The truth behind why he is dead, I have yet to find