Redline
Jack Reacher Experiment Book 6
ISBN 9781717576811
ASIN B079YJ5YXR
First I want to state I did enjoy this book and look forward to the rest in the series and the other two Reacher Series Jude has penned. Second a few years ago I read my first Reacher novel. I had picked up one for my dad, and after giving the back a read, I grabbed the eBook for myself. In under a year I had read all the Reacher Novels in print and all the books in the Hunt for Jack Reacher by Diane Capri. Since then I have read 58 books in the Reacher universe and am expanding out to the three series by Jude Hardin now.
The description of this book and same as some of the others is:
“About The Jack Reacher Experiment series
Rock Wahlman: Forty-one years old, United States Navy Master at Arms, E-8, retired.
DOB 14 October 2057.
Grew up in an orphanage, recently discovered that he is the product of a human cloning experiment, an exact genetic duplicate of a former army officer named Jack Reacher.
Now someone wants all evidence of the experiment to be erased, which means that someone wants Wahlman to be erased.
He’s on the run, desperate to survive, desperate to learn the truth about why all this is happening…
Note: The use of the name Jack Reacher, along with the use of story situations and supporting characters from the Jack Reacher universe, authorized by Lee Child. While sometimes referenced in the context of the story, the Jack Reacher character remains offstage in Kill Shot: The Jack Reacher Experiment Book 4.”
This volume like some of the others begins with:
“Rock Wahlman: Forty-one years old, United States Navy Master at Arms, E-8, retired. DOB 14 October 2057. Grew up in an orphanage, recently discovered that he is the product of a human cloning experiment, an exact genetic duplicate of a former army officer named Jack Reacher. Now someone wants all evidence of the experiment to be erased, which means that someone wants Wahlman to be erased. He’s on the run, desperate to survive, desperate to learn the truth about why all this is happening…”
This story is listed as 101 pages, not the shortest in the series and not the longest; but around the average. It felt shorter though, and a lot of the story was back story to a specific base called ‘The Box’. This was a based on the page count this volume is more of a novella, the book in this series are available as 9 stand-alone stories or in 3 omnibus editions. I will continue to read and review the stand-alone editions because that is how I started the series. Back to the book at hand. I read this on the last day of my March break vacation. I took an extra day after the kids were back in school to have some quiet and read through this over a couple mugs of coffee. It was finished far too soon.
Even death can’t keep Reacher down, in a manner of speaking. Rock Wahlman is a clone of Reacher, but he was not the only one. In the first volume, on the night his life goes sideways, he tries and saves a man after his rig goes off the road and into water. The man he pulls from the water looks just like him. Having been raised in an orphanage this raises some questions. After an attempt on his life, he starts putting together the pieces. His life may have been different than Reacher’s but his determination when he is threatened is the same.
Wahlman Is working to find info he needs to clear his name, and get his life back. He now has plans and hopes for a life. He wants a home a family, things he had never desired before. But before that can happen he needs evidence on the corrupt general that is trying to have him taken out. And now is he not only running from a rogue element in the Military, and the New Orleans’s Police.
Muck like his generic source material, trouble just seems to find Wahlman. And in this one it hits in again, but in a way that could really help him piece it all together. Can he find this secret base? Can he figure out what they are up to? Can he …? To find out, read this excellent novella!
This is another well written novella. That stays true to the original character and universe. It is a good read in a fun series. Even if this volume had not been set in the Reacher Universe I would have enjoyed it. The fact that it is only adds to the mystique that is Jack Reacher. It was good read and leaves you desperate for the next instalment in this series. This is a book and series I can easily recommend to fans of Reacher or anyone who loves a good action thriller.
Books by Jude Hardin:
Books in the Jack Reacher Experiment Series:
End Game
Ricochet
Gone
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The Reacher Experiment Books 1-3
The Reacher Experiment Books 4-6
The Reacher Experiment Books 7-9
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The Reacher Experiment: The Complete Series Books 1-9
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The Reacher Code Series:
Timestream 1
Timestream 2
Timestream 3
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Jack Reacher Files Series:
Fugative
Choke
Hostage
Velocity
The Girl from the Wrong Side of Cordial
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Nicholas Colt Series:
Pocket-47
Crosscut
Snuff Tag 9
Rattled
Colt
Key Death
Blood Tattoo
The Blood Notebooks
...
Nicholas Colt Crossover Books:
Racked (with J.A. Konrath)
Lady 52 (with J.A. Konrath)
Sycamore Bluff
...
Midnight Creek Series:
The Cold Gray Adiós
A Single Red Alibi
...
Stranded in the Old West:
Frifter
lawless
...
Pickin' & Grin Inn Mystery Series:
Dead Ain't Your Color
Friends in Freshly Dug Places
...
iSEAL Series:
iSeal
iSEAL 2
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Other Books:
Codename: Hollowpoint
aka Fused
A Thin Ribbon of Smoke
aka Witness
Rocked
aka Cage Fight
Au Revoir from a Bridge to Nowhere
Fire and Ice
Choke
The Blood Notebooks
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