Lee Child Bad Luck and Trouble: A Review

This is a great narrative laced with revenge as Jack Reacher wants an eye for an eye. The plot is about seven of his friends who were once military cops. Reacher had once formed an elite unit with them. He receives a message through a coded bank transaction from one of those called Neagley which is a SOS as one of them is found dead in mysterious circumstances. It is later learnt when they start exploring that three more are dead. It is assumed that were all murdered but by people unknown to the remaining four. Reacher wants payback as it was their motto during the paramilitary unit regime that `people did not mess with special investigators’. Even though their strength has waned during the years that have passed, their philosophy has not perished. It is later learnt that all four of them were killed after being tied at their ankles and wrists and thrown out of a helicopter. Reacher and Company start investigating from California to Las Vegas in Nevada. They make mistakes and start correcting them as they edge close to the answers to their questions. Through this journey, Reacher rekindles an old affair with one of his flames from that unit. With their uncanny skills of exploring, the outline of a conspiracy starts to take shape. They have to make a choice – either to save friends or avenge dead friends or risk the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Reacher does not give up, even in a world of bad luck and trouble, as he turns the tables on his foes.