Killing Floor by Lee Child

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)

by Lee Child

"This was the first Jack Reacher novel and with its lean, spare prose it has one of the most intriguing heroes of our times and displays a gift for explosive drama." (Daily Express)

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.

Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.

They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero.

Reviewed by Michael @ Knowledge Lost on

2 of 5 stars

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This is everything you would expect from a cheesy action movie, but as a book I would of liked more than bad lines and over-the-top action sequences. Jack Reacher is an ex-marine drifter who ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time. With the knowledge he has learnt from his life as a Military Police Major, Reacher has to try and clear his name and solve the murder of his brother; this leads him into a huge cover up happening in the small town of Margrave, Georgia.

I was interested in seeing what a Jack Reacher would like, and too be honest it was enjoyable but nothing special. I have heard the books do get better so I might actually read another book at some point.

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