The story is excellent and keeps the reader occupied. I'm constantly thinking,'what now?', 'where is this going?'. Although I find the first person style of, 'I said', 'she said', 'he said' etc a bit tedious, I intend to try other 'Jack Reacher' books, I don't yet know if the other novels are written in this style but if they are, I'll put up with it for a good story-line.