Review: The Secret

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

It is 1992 and eight people have been found dead.  They are in many places in the United States and don’t seem to be connected.  One of the victims gets the attention of the Secretary of Defense and he calls for an inter-agency task force.  Reacher is assigned to this task force.  He is a great soldier, but he doesn’t believe in hiding the truth to protect others.  What is the link between these victims?  Will this end with official justice or Reacher justice?

The Secret is the twenty-eighth Jack Reacher novel, and it transports us back 30 years during his Army career.  Readers who have followed the series will enjoy seeing new insights into an event that shaped who Jack became and readers who just picked this book up will enjoy a one-off story and then feel compelled to find the first in the series.  The adventure isn’t as intense as some of the other books, yet the story almost seems to read itself.  

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