Tag: Die Trying

Die TryingYear: 1998Author: Lee ChildLength: 859 minutes / 14.32 hours After reading the first Jack Reacher book, The Killing Floor, I wasn’t terribly impressed by the overly macho, masculine wish fulfillment presented in that book. Despite this, I gave the second book in the series, Die Trying, a shot. I was much more impressed with this book as it seemed to contain an actual plot and plenty of intrigue. Of course, it still had the random male wish fulfillment bits in it, but I’ll take any improvements I can get. I definitely see why the series has continued for so long after this outing. The appeal of Jack Reacher as a character is his complete competence based on the specific skills he obtained while serving in the military. And while a case of mistaken identity kicked The Killing Floor off, Die Trying leaned into the “wrong place and wrong time” trope to get Reacher tied into the main series of events. That...