It would take an army to bring him down [but] Reacher had to have an afterlife after I was done,” Child told the Times.Grant is an established author in his own right. Jack is the perfect physical specimen with perfect experience, perfect instincts, perfect reactions, perfect logic, perfect understanding of human behavior, and now even perfect companions for this particular plot. An initially credible plot that ultimately devolved into such a preposterous body count it was simply ludicrous. Wow, I wish I had counted the number of criminals killed in this novel; I'm sure the number would be so fantastic as to be laughable.

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