Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE • Stephen King calls Jack Reacher "the coolest continuing series character"-and now he's back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child.
"Why is this town called Mother's Rest?" That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.
Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there's something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he's plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way-right back to where he started, in Mother's Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine.
Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher's rule is: If you want me to stop, you're going to have to make me.
Lee Child
Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.
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Reviews for Make Me
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Another solid story by Child. Once again reinforces the disconnect between the Reacher character and the Tom Cruise character in the films. He is way too small in all ways to fit the image portrayed.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Synopsis: Reacher gets off of a train just to see why a town is named Mother's Rest. Here he meets a former member of the FBI looking for her partner. Following the clues leads them to the Dark Net and a series of murders for hire.Review: Interesting twists and turns with an ending that has to do with suicide and snuff films.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I dunno, it feels to me like Lee Child is getting lazy. I miss the early Reacher novels, tightly written thrillers that were really fun. Make me is way too long, with way too much filler. Next time Mr Child should hire an editor.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Number 20 in the Jack Reacher series (have only read one previously). Like Reacher, I kept wondering what was going on. What this little town called Mother's Rest was hiding that was bad enough for one ex-FBI agent to be missing (presumed murdered) and others in the town to try and eliminate both him and Chang, another ex-FBI agent trying to uncover what the missing man was working on. Assisted suicide, illegal yes, but profitable enough to finance the whole complex set-up and its underground connections? No. The story started when Reacher, curious about the name origin of a small town called Mother's Rest, disembarks there from a train and is mistaken for Chang's partner. He soon discovers himself and Chang under surveillance and immersed in trouble, which is when his vigilante nature takes over. And when the horrific truth is uncovered near the end of the book, I am truly horrified. Didn't see that one coming. Great read, a real thriller.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Typical Jack Reacher novel.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was my return to Lee Child after over a decade. Its great to see that the formula is still the same, the plot fascinating and the twist unpredictable for me. A gripping exciting and well written read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So this is actually my 1st Reacher novel as well as 1st by Child's; was a story that really captured me but now I HATE that cruise was chosen for movie role; i'm mean he's a shrimp of a guy and Reacher is a big guy; seriously?? anyway the story was still good and i liked it; ending of this book really creeped me out though.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Does Reacher leave enough people alive to have criminals warning one another on the Deep Web about not messing with him?
Jack Reacher decided to catch a train to a small town for a change and by walking around as per usual he managed to piss off the local criminals. This will end well for the criminals.
Lee Child is a master of not wasting words. If there is exposition then it is important to the plot. Make Me is no exception. The twist for this thriller is revealed in little details throughout the story. It comes through as no less shocking.
While I have grown a little tired of the formula for the Reacher novels, they still remain entertaining reads. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A surprisingly easy and really entertaining read. I don't know how I get to this book but I think I'll pick up a few more of Jack Reacher series. While it started out a bit bizarre if you stick with it you'll be pleasantly surprised
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Extreme Awfulness: "Make Me" by Lee Child Published September 8th, 2015.
I'm going to write a pastiche à la Lee Child. It's going to be fun:
He looked at her.
She looked at him.
They both climbed up the stairs without saying a word to each other.
He said nothing.
He tried unlocking the door, but the key didn’t fit.
She looked at him again wondering what the hell was going on.
He said nothing.
He tried to force the door open with his huge and capable hands.
She looked at him with admiration.
He was finally able to open the door using a tooth pick he had picked up during dinner.
Without looking at him she walked through the door ahead of him.
He said nothing.
The hotel room was stuffy.
He hanged his immaculate shirt on a chair so as to be able to show off his chiseled body complete with bulging biceps and ripped abs.
She looked at him with an uncertain look.
If you want to know what happens next, read on. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Certainly this was not my favorite Jack Reacher novel. It's quite verbose as the author feels the need to set up the ultimate challenge Reacher faces--and takes more than half of the book to do so. That means there's much descriptive language and light character development with almost no narrative tautness. Subtitle for this might have been, "Jack Reacher learns about technology." It's clear that Child wanted to skew younger by making technology such an important aspect of this work, but that means Reacher is playing the role of student, not the most entertaining use of his talents. The villain(s) is also underwritten. For the first time, Reacher's age becomes an issue in the sense of his prior alienation from technology and also his ability to avoid injury. He's definitely mortal here, and the book ends with Reacher almost wondering whether he should join AARP. This may be more realistic, but it certainly does nothing for the usual strengths of a Reacher adventure.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another solid Reacher book from Lee Child. Reacher gets caught up helping a private investigator find her missing partner -- while also trying to determine the exact case the missing PI was working on. Lots of traveling and guessing, and I liked that the mystery was not obvious and that it took a long time to come to conclusion.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another great Reacher book. The bad stuff happens in, or close to, somewhere very remote in Oklahoma in one of those unwelcoming and threatening towns that Child seems to be able to describe so capably. The crime, or bad stuff, they're hiding is elusive and one only finds out near the end and it's a creative one. The action also moves around other locales in the US.As usual, the main attraction to Reacher isn't the vigilante violence but the great descriptions and Reacher's thinking.If you like Reacher you'll like this one.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A top notch Jack Reacher book.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a typical standard Jack Reacher novel.He ends up in a tiny village called Mothers rest he wants to take a wee break.All is not as it seems in this place locals aren't friendly and are very suspicious.Jack meets a lady called Michele who is looking for her private eye colleague she thinks he has stumbled on something.Jack and Michelle team up get help from a journalist and a cyber geek they uncover what really is going on in this village of the dammed.OK book glad I read it though.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another gritty page-turner. But not for the squeamish.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book was good. Not Lee Child’s best, but good. The narrator gave everyone an old timer southern accent. Disappointing.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great book. Great character development. Clean. Another great Jack Reacher book!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love jack reacher n his policies for life, so audio book was clear cut story but felt that maybe some sentences were too repetitive
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As always it was another great read from one of the best authors!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great ook. I have heard this reader before and find him easy to follow and very engaging.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another excellent Jack Reacher story. I had no idea where this investigation was going. Reacher and his sidekick Chang travel the country to get this one solved. They go deep into their search for Chang’s missing work associate and uncover way more than they expected.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Start with one of the great American clichés - a lone stranger gets off a train that usually sets nobody down. You know bad things are happening and you know they will get a whole lot worse. It has to be the USA - it could never happen in Adlestrop.All straight-forward Reacher stuff with a peculiarly nasty and pretty unpredictable ending. The odd loose end - what is the point of Jack's persistent post-head injury symptoms, for instance.Go on, read it, you know you want to if you have got as far as this!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5WAY too slow and convoluted. Perhaps I am tiring of Reacher. Possibilities of the dark web and suicide?? I hope not!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make Me is a good adventure story that starts off innocently enough. As all of the Jack Reacher stories it progressed into a horrible reveal. The story has to do with the deep net or the dark web and how it works. It is upsetting to learn that if you can think it, it can be found. Four stars were awarded to this book for its good story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher lands in a small quiet town by chance where no one would expect anything evil to be happening. He meets Michelle Chang who mistakes him for a friend she was planning to meet there. Things get deep quick and unlike many of the earlier books I've read, this one did a lot of traveling around the country. I had a sneaking suspicion of what people were hiding about half way through, but it was much worse than I was thinking The end of the book seemed to be a little anti climatic, as in how do they leave that terrible mess behind and just walk off?
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once again Reacher stumbles into a damsel in distress, her troublesome situation, and subsequently sleeps with her whilst resolving said troublesome situation as much as said troublesome situation can be resolved.Seems like Lee Child has been watching the paranoid segments on current affairs television programs about the dangers lurking on the deep web and crafted that into a story, whilst yes it's an entertaining story, and yes it's more realistic than some of the other things Reacher has stumbled into. I couldn't help but feel it was a bit predictable based solely on the unfolding formula so soften used by Child in these novels.Sure, it's entertaining, but I would have liked to see a bit more unique direction.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a great book. Absolutely enjoyed it, hoping for more.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Much better, almost as good as his best. A good blend of Jack not understanding technology, a bit of violence, and sleuthing. works very well. A clever if disturbing idea.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm sorry to say that Reacher has reached the 'played out' stage of his tenure as one of the most compelling thriller characters of recent vintage.
'Make Me' is basically a missing person investigation that, as expected, morphs into something much more complicated. Reacher gets pulled into the mix by a female ex-FBI PI as he makes an unplanned stop at a small town in the middle of nowhere. She's looking for a colleague who'd reached out to her for help but then disappeared. Reacher is looking to kill time, so they join forces.
The plot is nicely done, with an unexpected twist at the end. I knocked it out in a day, which is normally a pretty good indicator to me of quality. However, I thought the writing wasn't up to Child's previous standards and the tension that typically pervades Reacher novels wasn't there except for the conclusion. There was a little more sexuality and a welcome return of the physical violence we expect from Reacher, but they seemed a bit half-hearted.
Again, this is a good book, just not in the same league as the first several in the series. If you've not read Reacher yet, my recommendation would be to begin at the beginning.