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This time he drives, fights, asks questions, ends chapters with cliffhangers and lays traps. There was always some joy in watching Reacher size up a new motel room, spot the cleanest woman in town, shovel down those trencherman’s breakfasts and then work off 200,000 calories during his day. But the additions replace the series’ quaint touches, which had their value. Much may be made of the fact that he uses a mobile phone in this book and has to figure out what servers are. One aim of The Sentinel is to bring the Big Guy into the tech world. (Lee’s tricks were smarter and quicker.) And I have no idea why Reacher needs to do so much shopping this time, but he does. It’s presumably Andrew who externalises much of Reacher’s thinking into chatter, turns every fight into a multipage affair and calls excess attention to Reacher’s intrinsic genius for geometry and physics. Reacher stays far too busy dealing with all of this. The Childs need to get back to Lee’s sharp writing game too. Of course he finds local trouble, and he can see it – oh, boy – “as clearly as if a sky writer had spelled it out with white smoke”. And that’s about as much walking as he’ll do in this town, even though Reacher 1.0 favoured long treks that soothed readers. He gets a ride with a travelling insurance guy, then walks right into a trap set for Rusty Rutherford, a newly unemployed IT manager. There are those of us who always enjoyed the idea of Reacher’s rambling into another little Nowhere, finding somebody in distress, setting things right, draining the diner of coffee and ambling on. Then it heads off to greater metropolitan Pleasantville, Tennessee, and a suitably one-horse town where the real fun awaits. It starts off in Nashville, where Reacher stages that break-in and where, by page 16, he has busted a larynx, a windpipe and a nose, not all belonging to the same person. It’s also action-packed to a fault, which robs it of the leanness that is one of the series’ main attractions. The Sentinel shows the same grisliness that was beginning to turn up in Lee’s later books Andrew wrote that way from the start.