Better off dead is right. This book is cruel torture to anyone who enjoyed the series. You remove Jack Reacher and Lee Childs name from this book and it still wouldn't get 2 stars. Besides Jack's dialog sounding like it's written by someone who's never read a Reacher novel, it's atrocious as well. I,I,I,I,I,I,I,I All the dialogue is. The descriptions paint incomplete pictures. Atleast all of that doesnt distract from how boring the plot is.