The Affair eBook Review

Everyone knows how much I loves me some Jack Reacher and in this book Jack Reacher did not disappoint.  It's 1997.  Jack Reacher is an employed Army MP and pre-ATM card, pre-foldable toothbrush and pre-expired passport.  In fact, this is the story about how he ends up unemployed with a foldable toothbrush, ATM and expired passport. Major Reacher is sent to Mississippi to investigate the murder of a white woman.  It's pretty typical from there on.  He drinks buckets of coffee.  He's a man whore and he shoots some people in the head.    But it's when Jack Reacher says things like, "Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the mouth"  that I think, man I love this guy.  And in all honesty, sometimes I'm up at night thinking, if Jack Reacher showed up on Saratoga Road, would I let him be a man whore with me?  I think the answer might depend on who he shot in the head and how long ago he had purchased new clothes.  Overall, a very good read and there was one instant where I thought I might lose all respect for Jack Reacher if he had done what I really wanted him to do.  But he didn't.  Because he wasn't 100% certain of the truth.  Because in addition to good coffee, Jack Reacher believes in doing the Right Thing.