High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella) (Kindle Single) (Jack Reacher Short Stories Book 4)

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Fiction or not, this is too much of a "superhero" build and exposure. In fact, in any script for a decent movie, in screenplay writing, or creative writing, or any planned role-play scenario, there is a very important tool named "character sheet" part of the "character design" where the creator of the character that will soon take shape, sets a list of qualities and traits of his future character and same time a list of weaknesses of flaws of the same character. Not doing so, is a drastic violation of the "character design" or "role-play" gender and style, leading to the so-called "Godmoding" that is not so well received by any and all serious creators and authors. I can't really find anything about this short story to recommend it. Reacher is called from Germany to go undercover in a congressional hearing regarding a new sniper rifle. Military Intelligence thinks that there is a leak as to the specs of that rifle. Reacher's job is to find the leak. Then again. we see Reacher, a teen this time, a 16 y/o kid, wandering around New York City in the late 70's when the so-called organized crime like the Italian mob was still ruling the streets, and guess what, our kid, our 16 y/o Reacher, not only that he's fooling a co-ed 19 y/o beautiful young girl to go out with him and give him the time of his life, but at the very same time, he's helping a female FBI agent in her quest to bring down a made man of the Italian mob ruling the streets, where in fact our Reacher is the key in defeating this made man... What can I say, it's a Reacher...and he figures it out so easily while I'm sitting here totally stupid. I liked how Child informed us of Reacher's character with his mouthing off to Christopher, his observational skills in figuring out what Christopher's hand movements mean. Without being an info dump, it tells us that Reacher is very good at his job.

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I enjoyed the short Reacher story Second Son that Child wrote so when I saw this was available in our library I was eager to read it. I had to put it on hold and wait a couple of weeks for it to come in but it was worth it. A good reading buddy of mine sent me a note that said I need to get caught up on my Reacher reading. So, here I go. Trying to get a start on that goal.Anatomy of Innocence (March 2017) in “Chapter 6: The Fortune Cookie” Lee tells the story of exoneree Kirk Bloodworth.

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Moving to a new place is always hard and Okinawa is no exception. Reacher must prove himself to the neighborhood bully, he meets a girl and he solves two mysteries.

Deep Down is set during the 1980s. Reacher is asked to investigate a potential leak of military secrets to the Soviet Union via fax machine from the U.S. Capitol building. The potential leakers are a set of officers working in a committee to flash out the characteristics needed in a new sniper rifle should the Congress decide to fund the creation of a new sniper rifle and buy it. Reacher is added to the committee as part of an undercover operation to figure out who the bad guy is. Reacher does get enough clues (naturally) to identify the leak -- not only that, he's able to uncover a whole lot more. Best yet, the book includes a fantastic Reacher fight scene (don't get me wrong, I love it when he uses his brain, but the last two short stories I listened to didn't have a lot of action.).

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According to his bosses, it's a zero-danger mission. No need to draw a gun . . . just chat over drinks. But Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem. And he's learned the hard way never to underestimate an opponent. Or four. Lessons that will come in handy when he starts digging for the truth--and gets his hands a lot dirtier than he expected.

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Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born. Christopher hedges so many restrictions around Reacher, I can't imagine how he'll be able to investigate anything. So...naturally...he does. Piece'a cake. Its the mid-80s, Reacher's a Captain in the Army and is called to Washington to go undercover as an Army sniper. Someone is leaking information from a Congressional investigation into whether the Army and Marines need a new, super-cutting-edge sniper rifle. The Army's got it narrowed down to 4 suspects, they want him to narrow it down. Reacher is repeatedly assured that this will just be talking and that there is "no danger." So, yeah, things are going to get dicey. What is wrong in all this picture, in all those books, is the fact this guy is like a Superman, not just a super-hero, but in a very exaggerated way a Superman type of hero, no matter of other conditions, no matter his age, no matter of the environment, no matter what, this guy is the best in everything, is invincible, with no weakness and with plenty of qualities and traits.

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This story has good bones -- it has a compelling lead character, a tight plot, an interesting mystery, believable tension, and a memorable climax -- but comes off the rails due to a few notable shortcomings in the writing. This especially annoyed me because this had such potential to be a tremendously good short story, were it not for these irksome missteps: I don't want to spoil your fun, but just here, in those three novellas, we see Reacher as a 12 y/o kid, not only fighting and winning against other guys, much older than him and outnumbering him, but also same time he's solving some kind of mystery doing his own investigation and following his own clues, doing his own deductions and solving a critical case on the base, for the real MP's - military police - of the base that can't solve this case without this 12 y/o kid intervention... It's a hearing before a procurement committee on the Hill, and there's a suspicion that one of the liaison officers is selling the design to a foreign manufacturer. Reacher fans will want to read this just because it's Reacher. Anyone who has not read a Lee Child Reacher novel should not waste their money on this.Colonel Cornelius Christopher is with Military Intelligence, and he handles Reacher well: he lets him spew! There really is no plot to speak of. The first third of the story involves a woman jogging and a man driving a car, prior to their lives intersecting. At the same time Reacher is being briefed by Military Intelligence on his mission. Then there's the hearing and after that the end game.