Fiction: "Killing Floor" by Lee Child, first published 1997.
This is the first Jack Reacher novel. I read it as an escape from the daily infuriation of current affairs. This edition in 2012 has an introduction by Lee Child, who turns out, is an Englishman. He invented the character of Jack Reacher as a ex-military cop in America, a physical giant, typically the most intimidating person in the neighborhood, an uncomplicated man emotionally speaking, a drifter but functioning misfit in civilian society, whose adventures come about because of noblesse oblige.
In this adventure, Reacher arrives at Margrave, Georgia, where he is arrested for murder, and soon is up to his neck in the strange goings-on in the town.
This is a fast-moving, but sometimes overly gruesome adventure.
This is the first Jack Reacher novel. I read it as an escape from the daily infuriation of current affairs. This edition in 2012 has an introduction by Lee Child, who turns out, is an Englishman. He invented the character of Jack Reacher as a ex-military cop in America, a physical giant, typically the most intimidating person in the neighborhood, an uncomplicated man emotionally speaking, a drifter but functioning misfit in civilian society, whose adventures come about because of noblesse oblige.
In this adventure, Reacher arrives at Margrave, Georgia, where he is arrested for murder, and soon is up to his neck in the strange goings-on in the town.
This is a fast-moving, but sometimes overly gruesome adventure.
