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    High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella
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    High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella

    By Lee Child

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Thriller master Lee Child returns with an exclusive eBook novella. In the midst of a savage heat wave and an infamous murder spree, a blackout awakens the dark side of the city that never sleeps—and a young Jack Reacher takes action as only he can.
     
    Don’t miss the exciting preview of Lee Child’s highly anticipated Jack Reacher novel, Never Go Back!
     
    July 1977. Jack Reacher is almost seventeen, and he stops in New York City on the way to visit his brother at West Point. The summer heat is suffocating, the city is bankrupt, and the mad gunman known as Son of Sam is still on the loose. Reacher meets a woman with a problem, and agrees to help her . . . but then the power grid fails and the lights go out, plunging the lawless city into chaos. What does a visiting teenager do in the dark? If that visiting teenager is Jack Reacher, the answer is plenty.
     
    Praise for Lee Child and his Jack Reacher novels
     
    “Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
     
    “Like his hero, Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps.”—Associated Press
     
    “The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
     
    “[A] feverishly thrilling series . . . With Child, you can always count on furious action.”—The Miami Herald
     
    “One of the best thriller characters at work today.”—Newsweek
     
    “Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was.”—Esquire
     
    “Widely admired by other writers as a master craftsman of action thrillers.”—The Wall Street Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 6, 2013
    ISBN9780345546647
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    High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella
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    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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    • 4/5
      Reacher, a fit and feisty 16, does NYC, during a blackout on his way to visit his brother at West Point. It is a very productive night as he thumps a drug dealer, spot "son of Sam, maybe and score with the ladies. A worthwhile early start to his knight errant persona.
    • 5/5
      A short story in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Reacher assists a suspended FBI agent in taking down a mobster. Reacher is only sixteen traveling from Korea to NYC to hear music and met girls.
    • 3/5
      I've read all the books by Lee Child and never thought I'd give an "average" rating to any of his works. Unfortunately, the author has chosen to make Jack 16 years-old and giving him more knowledge, experience, and sex that a kid of his age should have. However, I did read it all, and thought it would have played better if Reacher was in his 20's.
    • 1/5
      I was a bit disappointed that this wasn't a full novel, but see that the next book is due to be released soon, I was hoping this was enough to fill my Reacher fix until then. This one jumps us back to when Reacher was 17 and on vacation in New York City. It is a pretty short read (for me) so I was a bit down about it (again). We know a little from his life growing up from one of the other novels, and short bits and pieces throughout the series, but I felt my credibility was stretched a bit with this one.

      Reacher's 'fighting tactics' are pretty much the same as 20 years later. I understand he was raised as a Marine's son, and lived on bases around the globe, but though they aren't specified as military training, it seemed a bit ... overkill from a 17 year old. Granted, physical description stated he was basically the same build as the novels but still. The story, him helping out a suspended FBI agent, in dealing with a "mob boss" seemed sketchy as well, considering how it started (won't share and ruin it for you). But him single-handedly taking on said mob guy ... c'mon! And throw in the whole Son of Sam thing, too?! Now you're pulling on both legs.

      In short, I was just disappointed with this short story. It just didn't feel like the other Lee Child novels. I liked the idea of the small fill-in on Reacher in his youth, but this was a bit too far-fetched for me. hoping the next novel will be better.
    • 3/5
      NYC blackout in 1977 - I remember we were driving home during it and saw the city go dark.
    • 4/5
      Nice quick read, enough to tie me over until Never Go Back arrives in a couple of weeks.
    • 3/5
      Another interesting interlude between the regular books. It adds an interesting twist to the character, Reacher, however unlikely it is to have been.
    • 3/5
      I can't say that I really liked High Heat that much. First, Reacher just felt ... um ... wrong. We've seen him as a teen before, but in this book, his actions were much more those of a man and less those of a teen (though his thoughts about women seemed much in line with what one would expect). Or, to say it a different way, the story would have felt more "real" had Reacher been a young soldier on leave (or even a West Point cadet on leave) rather than a teen. Oh, well. I'm also not sure that I loved the serendipitous meeting with history, but the way that it happened was actual worth a good chuckle. Worth reader if you're a Reacher fan; otherwise... well why aren't you a Reacher fan?
    • 2/5



      Reacher portrayed as 16-year-old and behaving like a 30-year-old.

      Child is a terrible writer. His short, uneven sentences à la Dan Brown and his proneness for meticulously describing every simple physical motion, not to mention his readiness to begin almost every sentence in a row with the same word, really (almost) puts me off. I know, I know Lee Child is no Shakespeare, but somehow I can't help myself. Each time one of his books comes out I swear to myself I won't pick it up, but once again I couldn't resist. I've sinned again. After finishing "The Cuckoo's Calling" by J.K. Rowling late last night and after perusing my digital library I came across the latest Lee Child (not "Never Go Back", which comes out at the end of the month).

      I just wanted to read the first pages and then stop reading and put it aside, but I kept on reading to see what happened next. When I got to the end of it I was beside myself, because I had needed to keep reading it. Voodoo book...?

      Child is an terrible writer but a shrewd storyteller. After a while you forget how awful his prose is, because you become engrossed in the story and can't wait to see what happens next. Cheater...

      I fear I will sin again when "Never Go Back" comes out..."