MAKE ME: LEE CHILD

Not my favorite Jack Reacher but I stuck with it. This time Reacher just  happens to get off a train in Mother's Rest, a small town in the middle of nowhere.  As he descends, he notices an Asian woman, waiting for someone, or so it seems.  Her name is Michelle Chang, as he learns later, and she's an ex FBI agent, now a private detective, here in Mother's Rest, to find her partner, a big guy named Keever.  It's not that simple, as the two find out.  No one in Mother's Rest is any help, in fact, they are hostile.  None have heard of Keever though he stayed in the motel for a couple of days.  Reacher gets interested of course though he has no cause to get involved, other than a pretty girl named Michelle.

They slowly, painstakingly, unravel the mystery, and the narrative is too detailed, too much fluff and too long before we get any action, like the killing of thugs in Chicago when investigating a lead or the execution style killing of a Ukrainian Mob Boss in Arizona, who is running a protection racket for the boys of Mother's Rest.  They enlist a journalist named Westwood who has had some connection with a few of the visitors to Mother's Rest.  They finally realizet a number of individuals who visit Mother's Rest never leave.  The three return and of course the Mother's Rest crew knows that Reacher's back but that makes no difference of course.  He guns down the motel operator, the hardware store clerk, the post office agent, one after another, then both he, Michelle, and Westwood, plan an attack on a series of buildings outside of town.  Along the way, they uncover a couple of hundred in cash and use it to call in helicopters to hide their approach and create a ruse, then attack the building, destroying the bad guys.  They discover that this gang was enticing terminal patients to their 'resort' with promises of an easy, painless death.  When they got there, however, they used them as victims in 'snuff films,' made to order for their clients. Nice.  The plots a bit much, the details over done, the pace slow but hey, it's Jack Reacher.  We read to get to the scenes where he dispatches his victims, from one to many, with aplomb.  What a guy. And I am no Jack Reacher, by the way.