Derek Scott

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Very weak effort, poles apart from early Reacher stories. Implausible; the dearth of any substantive plot, or mystery, means it jumps from one random violent incident to the next. No real sense of place - yes, the desert, but this is not properly developed. Reacher agrees to play dead in a morgue to snare the bad guys!!?? Utterly ludicrous - I should have stopped reading there! The style - an avalanche of brief non sentences (designed to build tension?) doesn't elevate the experience. Perhaps Reacher has run his course. All involved, writers and publisher etc should hang their heads ...

Baptiste in Hungary - so many errors! An ambassador would have security; would phone immediately if family missing; would have been dark at 5:30am (February, sunrise 6:40ish) - and anyway, how could a jogger spot that a baddie in a car had a 4 stripe tattoo? CCTV footage retained at hotel reception? (Yes, the police would take a copy ...but leave the original for anyone to take a peek??) Seemed to take hours (days?) for the police to get round to enlarging phone video of the gun - even I'd have been on to that a bit quicker! Not a patch on the Amsterdam series. So many fortuitous leaps, implausible conclusions correctly jumped to!