Review: The Sentinel

The Sentinel by Lee Child
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jack Reacher is doing his usual thing.  He is traveling to another small town with nothing on his mind.  He is there by chance and is just minding his own business when he notices a man seemingly walking into an ambush.  He knows it has nothing to do with him, but when it is four against one, he feels the need to intervene.  The man turns out to be an IT manager, Rusty Rutherford, who was recently fired after a ransomware attack on the town’s computer system.  Jack knows he should leave town, but Rusty wants to stick around and clear his name.  Reacher loves a good mystery, especially when there will be heads to knock together.

 

The Sentinel is the twenty-fifth Jack Reacher novel and the action is just as prolific in this novel as the first.  It is hard to believe that Child can take a character we all love reading about and create a new story with new troubles to get out of.  I also enjoyed that the events described are relevant to our everyday safety, even if we don’t experience them ourselves.  Everyone who has made it this far in the series will enjoy this book and if you haven’t read a Jack Reader book yet, then go back to Killing Floor and get started!

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