The Enemy (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
| Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Dell
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Pages: 496
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ISBN: 0440241014
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Publication Date: April 26, 2005
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Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.
New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. But this situation can’t be controlled. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Then the dominoes really start to fall.
Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down, one at a time. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.
But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war. And he’s taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn’t know he had. With his French-born mother dying—and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret—Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed…about his family, his career, his loyalties—and himself. Because this soldier’s son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death—and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 OK, some of the criticisms are warrented, but June 24, 2008
I still think this is my favorite Reacher novel so far (June 2008). So the author isn't up on USA military history and protocol, and pulled a couple of real bloopers like the location of Fort Irwin. But he makes up for it with great characters and some great comments (like the difference between what happens if you run your HumVee over unexploded ordinance versus a desert tortoise).
Most "thriller" stories require that the reader suspend belief if you know anything at all about the specialized subject matter; novels with techie subjects like computers are almost always full of awful mistakes. So what if this one blew the military stuff here and there, it's still a great story about one of the best characters in thriller fiction today. I loved it, and even found myself "page turning" at 3am on a second read a month later. Anyone who loves Reacher has got to love this "prequel" to the Reacher series.
A great read for a long plane ride April 29, 2008
I picked this book up for a long plane ride and was a few pages in before I realized that I'd read it before. However, Lee Child's writing is so sharp and Reacher's detection is so intelligent AND practical that I couldn't put it down and reread the whole story. Totally absorbing.
For those who think that television shows on the work of military intelligence provide a good picture of what they do, I'd suggest reading this book for a much more insightful and exciting story, fascinating mystery - and, if you haven't read other Reacher books, an introduction to a great character.
Another Reacher classic April 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another Lee Child classic. Pure fiction at its best, not too serious but entertaining to say the least. If you like this writer read Soft Target,and Soft Target 2 `Tank` by Conrad Jones, I read both on holiday they were hours of excitment on the sunbed!! Brilliant
 Lee Child Writings, general review April 4, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
First, I am a Jack Reacher fan for pure escapist reading. Lee Child's books become progressively better with time, but there are basic flaws in the character premise:
1. Few or NO male graduates of West Point would opt for a military police branch assignment upon graduation. Probability: 1 on a scale of 1-100.
2. An inveterate wanderer with only a toothbrush in his shirt pocket? One who discards his old clothes and purchases new every few days with no or rarely a mention of a bath in between? Get real!
3. A veteran career officer with no understanding of military structure, history or organization; confusion about military rank and sequence? I am a veteran officer of the 82d Airborne Division, but Lee Child mentions the 83d Airborne Division (no such unit, ever!).
4. A brother three years older (also a West Point graduate - there had to be a one year overlap in their attendance) with no contact whatsoever over a seven year period since their mother's funeral and the brother's death? No mention of classmates - please note that classmate bonds at West Point are very tight. Get real!
Now the positive: If one can get past the non-sensical above premise and the often non-sensible plots, the development of characters and fast moving plot development and lately, twisted plots make for a fast page turner and fun reading!
The Enemy March 20, 2008
All I've got to say is, "WOW"! Child has really gone and written a superb thriller with this one. You feel as though you are living in Reacher's body as he wallows in the various different lives he connects with. He's compulsive, yet tender, with his aide as they travel (nearly) the world in search of clues that will relieve him of extraordinary pressures. She certainly proves herself valuable..in more ways than one! The Army (hopefully, but probably) really isn't quite like what Reacher had to live through.
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