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I really enjoyed this story, a typical Jack Reacher tale with lots of excitement, action and a mystery to be unraveled. Unfortunately for me, I ended up having to purchase this story twice. Why would that be necessary you might ask? Glad you asked! My paperback version (2014 Dell Mass Market Edition, April 2014 edition) arrived brand new and everything was fine as I really got into the story, quite a page turner. Then I finished chapter 56 on page 416. The very next page in this book was page 129 (again) and the pages continued through page 176. The next page after that was page 465. (see the photos I've attached to my review) The pages continued as normal after that, however this paperback version of the book is quite worthless as a story with dozens of pages missing from it. So in order to continue where I left off I ended up ordering the kindle version for my tablet to get the whole story. This is why I dinged my review a star. Obviously, the problem is not with the retailer, nor the distributor but with the publisher for putting out such an incomplete book. Hopefully mine was just a fluke and others printed as they are supposed to be. But be warned and check the pages just in case! To their credit, Amazon was very quick with a refund for this defective book.


Tags : Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18) [Lee Child] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C.,Lee Child,Never Go Back: (Jack Reacher 18),Bantam Press,0593065743

Never Go Back Jack Reacher 18 Lee Child 9780593065747 Books Reviews

I loved all the other books in the Jack Reacher series, but this one didn't even feel like it was written by the same author. Reacher is supposed to be extremely smart. He is constantly thinking about his situation and examining every angle. But the coin flip fifty-fifty device that he uses throughout the book seemed to dumb down this thought process. Every time he used it to tell someone about choices it was as if he was saying "It might happen and it might not". This did not seem to fit with the essence of Reacher. Also, I felt the storyline of the girl to be unbelievable. Again, I have read all the other books in the series and really enjoyed them, which in the end amplified my disappointment in this book.
I acquired this some time before I got around to reading it, in the proper sequence, for several reasons. By the time I read it, there were several reader-reviews posted, and the movie - from which it was, apparently, partially-"derived"** - was out and had been for awhile. Fortunately, it turned out to be substantially better than the movie (no surprise there, on several counts* - filmed versions "derived from"-even in part-this sort of "action/adventure" novel seldom-enough even closely resemble the original material, being almost-inevitably at variance in ways that make them, overall, a poor imitation [at best] of the original stories), and also than what might be expected from some of the reviewers' accounting. On balance, an intriguing, interesting and very entertaining outing for the Big Guy.

Jack Reacher's, of course, that "rugged-independent" semi-hero/anti-hero that a lot of men would really love to be - and realize full-well they can never measure-up to, even if they happen to be as big and fit and perhaps even maybe as tough as he supposedly is, or could somehow find themselves in the midst of one of his storied escapades. In this outing, he stays true to type and profile, cutting-through the opposition at every encounter. It's good, hard-nosed fun. watching him deal with it all, finding out what's REALLY going-on, and managing to come out on top, once again...which everyone of the readers just KNOWS he will, by whatever means necessary... A nice, slick, fast ride to the finish - there are some minor discrepancies, here and there, but hey...it's "adventure hero" fiction - you've simply got to give a wee bit of "slack", now and then, right?
Four well-deserved Stars - not the best-of-series, but up towards the top-end, that's certain.

And the series rolls on...Keep 'em coming, Lee!...You may have started-out as a Brit, but you're doing pretty dang well in the American-context with that big ol' ex-M.P. Major and his nomadic adventures.

(* The biggest problem, really, with the movie, was the actor who attempted to portray Jack Reacher - aside from the obvious size discrepancy [Tom Cruise is a fairly-decent actor, even though his essays into "tough-guy" characters don't generally play all that well, but compared to the Jack Reacher character in the stories, Cruise is a SHRIMP! I don't care who you are - if you're only 5'-7" and maybe 160 - 170 lb. tops, you simply can't "play" 6'-5" and 250 lb. Sorry, Cholly, that won't work - makeup and wardrobe and camera-angles can't make that "happen", even if you stand on a box for close-ups, like Alan Ladd {another shorty "action-hero"} supposedly did in "Shane", or play a bunch of the scenes while seated - which clearly Cruise couldn't do in the Reacher film - the size differential is just too great], Tom Cruise was SIMPLY NOT able to portray the sort of hard-core Alpha-Male "dominating presence" that is part-and-parcel of the Jack Reacher persona, fictional though it really is. For any actual reader of the novels, the additional "suspension of belief" is/was really too much to be managed. The role needed to be taken by someone with a much, MUCH greater ability to represent such a potent, hard-nosed, take-on-any-challenge character, fictional or not.)

(**I know, I know - they CLAIM that the movie was actually made from an earlier Reacher-starring novel, the ninth one in the series called [I believe] "One Shot", but - sorry, I don't entirely buy that; the GENERAL THEME [more-or-less] of "One Shot" runs through the film, BUT there's a pretty nice piece of "Never Go Back" tied-up in there, albeit chopped into a lot of rather small bits, here 'n there - along with bits from at least a couple of OTHER Reacher episodes...and, if you make a direct comparison, aside from most of the general story-thread of "One Shot" SORTA-KINDA wandering through there, there's very little match-up between the movie and ANY actual Reacher novel in the series - and a whole bunch of the book series were "optioned", in advance, by the movie people {apparently in the expectation/hope that the film starring Cruise would be the start of a whole new "franchise series" of films from the novels - which clearly has not happened, and seems highly-unlikely to ever develop, at least not anytime soon} - and virtually ANY series-novel-to-film "translation" is always going to be a composite in some respects - so...draw your own conclusions - I've drawn mine. For what it's worth - from my recollection, "One Shot" was a very good Reacher-outing, one of the definite top-end ones.)
Albeit through a circuitous route and a couple of books later through Nebraska. We met Susan Turner, the new CO of the 110th MP in "61 Hours" after Jack called the secret number of his old Command in need of information. He spent many hours in phone conversations with her and the information she provided (along with flirtations) helped him survive his current desperate situation and made him want to meet her.

I so wanted to get to this point in the series, but instead of skipping ahead to this book that has been waiting patiently in my kindle since it's release, I held off and read the 3 books in between. It was worth the wait because in 2 those books (the 3rd being a prequel taking place in 1997) his main goal was to get to Virginia to meet Susan Turner and it made getting there all the better.

Only, it's not as easy at it should be. She's in trouble and so is he and the adventure begins. It's a wild ride crisscrossing the continent in a way that only Jack reacher can do...

It's full of action as always with a woman that Jack respects and admires at his side.....

I won't say any more because if you've made it this far in the series you already know you're going to love it and if you're picking up a Jack Reacher novel for the first time, there is enough background information to make it a stand alone Novel like most the the Jack Reacher books are.

I will add this though. After making it this far in the series and not having seen the movie based on this book I doubt my husband or I will bother. I think seeing Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher will ruin the next ones for me. I mean, really? Last time I saw a movie with Tom Cruise he wasn't 6ft 5" and he didn't weigh 250 lbs and I can't imagine how they pulled it off.
I really enjoyed this story, a typical Jack Reacher tale with lots of excitement, action and a mystery to be unraveled. Unfortunately for me, I ended up having to purchase this story twice. Why would that be necessary you might ask? Glad you asked! My paperback version (2014 Dell Mass Market Edition, April 2014 edition) arrived brand new and everything was fine as I really got into the story, quite a page turner. Then I finished chapter 56 on page 416. The very next page in this book was page 129 (again) and the pages continued through page 176. The next page after that was page 465. (see the photos I've attached to my review) The pages continued as normal after that, however this paperback version of the book is quite worthless as a story with dozens of pages missing from it. So in order to continue where I left off I ended up ordering the kindle version for my tablet to get the whole story. This is why I dinged my review a star. Obviously, the problem is not with the retailer, nor the distributor but with the publisher for putting out such an incomplete book. Hopefully mine was just a fluke and others printed as they are supposed to be. But be warned and check the pages just in case! To their credit, was very quick with a refund for this defective book.