Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)

by Lee Child

[Sarah Says]

Lee Child is now up to 24 Reacher novels. 24 and I’ve read 10 so far. I’ve read them jumping around the place; 7, 5, 14, 3 etc. but I decided I wanted to read them all in order, omitting the ones previous read. So that brought me to number one and it was good to finally read the original. I could see Reacher starting to become the man he is in the later books.
In this book we see the pivotal point in Reacher’s life when his brother dies and he learns it’s better to be on the move.
In this book it’s been only six months since Reacher was made redundant and booted out of the army. On a whim he gets off a bus and ends up in a town where some serious shit is going down, always the way with Reacher. Reacher spends his time just trying to get the hell out of the place until his brother turns up dead. Then the race is on for Reacher to find out who did it, get the bad guys and avenge his brother. It is a hell of a lot more complicated than that, but I’m trying to be brief.
Killing Floor is fast paced and action packed. I would say that Reacher has improved as a character over time or should I say Lee Child’s writing of Jack Reacher has improved over time, either way they just keep getting better.