Ricochet
Jack Reacher Experiment Book 8
ISBN 9781798962893
ASIN B07L5GLSM9
I want to state I did enjoy this book and look forward to the last 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:
“Rock Wahlman...
United States Navy Master at Arms, E-8, retired. Three and a half years have passed since he discovered that he is the product of a human cloning experiment, an exact genetic duplicate of a former Army officer named Jack Reacher.
Once a fugitive from justice—and a target for multiple hired assassins—Wahlman has settled into a new career as a private investigator. He has a wife named Kasey to come home to at night, a stepdaughter named Natalie starting college, and a cat named Alice who's a little too clever for her own good.
In short, Rock Wahlman is a happy man.
But when a celebrity lookalike shows up at his office with a stalking complaint, things start going wrong in a hurry.
Because Wahlman ends up passing on the case...
And the young lady ends up dead...
And the movie star—the one she bore a striking resemblance to—just happens to be in town for a horse race.”
This story is listed as 95 pages, not the shortest in the series and not the longest; but around the average. It felt shorter though. 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 with 3 volumes each and now even all 9 stories in 1 eBook or print edition. 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 over a few mugs of coffee on a quiet evening at home alone, which is a rarity. It was finished far too soon, and really leaves you desperate for the last in the series.
As the penultimate volume it feels like a bit of whiplash. We go from Wahlman on the run and needing assistance to he is married, they are settled and he is working as a PI. I will be honest at the beginning I thought maybe it was a dream sequence. But that was not the case.
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 has cleared his name, got his life back, and even managed to get a License to be a private investigator. When he doesn’t take a case he has regret and tries to make things right. It does not go easy or well.
Muck like his generic source material, trouble just seems to find Wahlman. And in this one he is in it again. Assaulting an entire security squad, tampering with evidence, and generally getting in the way. But all with a purpose. To find out what happens read this great story.
This is another excellent novella. That stays true to the original character and universe. It is a great 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 love a good action thriller.
Books by Jude Hardin:
Books in the Jack Reacher Experiment Series:
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
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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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