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  • Jack Reacher 21
  • By: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (2,880 ratings)
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Night School

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Summary

A gripping thriller from the get-go, the 21st novel in Lee Child's best-selling Jack Reacher series is a prequel, taking us back in time to his US Army Military Police days circa 1996. Fresh off a successful mission in the Balkans, he's commended with a medal but then mysteriously receives new orders. He's about to be sent back to school.

In the morning they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school.

Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make cold sweat trickle down your spine.

©2016 Lee Child (P)2016 Random House Audiobooks

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A good book

A very good book if you cannot sleep!!!!! I love jack reacher but!!!!
I can't get picture of 5ft weakling out of my mind not the 6'5" one

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Really Disappointed

I've read all of the Reachers as hardbacks and love them. Formulaic in places but isn't that what fans find most comfortable? Reacher doesn't change for anyone and he's a great character for it.

I have started listening to the books now and have been enjoying the performances on the whole. Jeff Harding normally gives excellent character performances and of course breathes life into the main man where Hollywood has failed.

I'm afraid I disagree with some other reviewers here in that I have had to stop listening because of the poor performance. The character dialogue is fine but the narrator sounds like he's reading the story to us for the umpteenth time because we have failed to understand all his other attempts. His voice sounds exasperated and slightly irritated and this phrasing and intonation is repeated for sentence after sentence.

I'm now so aware of this that I miss whole chunks of the story because I'm thinking about the way it's being read. Maybe it's just me and Mr Harding is right to be irritated!

I'm going to buy the book in paper form and try again with the story - who knows, it could be the way it's been written and actually does read like a long forensic report.

Planning for the worst, hoping for the best!

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Reacher Beats Cruise Control

Night School is another quality Jack Reacher novel. It has plenty of the familiar quasi-plausible plot lines and most importantly his trademark logical deductions and judge-jury-executioner approach to dealing with the bad guys. Jeff Harding crunches through gravel to bring the book to life with his granite like voice as narrator.

If I am totally honest I lap these up generally with relish but my favourite Reacher moments were when he is “just a guy” who gets caught up in fighting for the little guys against bigger guys. This is a bit different, a prequel to the other novels, and sees Jack working for his country against a massive threat to the world. He is co-operating, as much as Reacher ever does, with major law enforcement agencies again so it’s not quite my absolute favourite style of Reacher story.

The recent Reachers have mostly been good but they do seem geared more to Hollywood blockbuster plots which to me raises the suspicion that Child is influenced at least a bit in that direction. The old (or in this case young) Jack still shines through though.

It remains true that if you want to see a quality, high budget action block buster style movie Tom Cruise is definitely a valid choice. The *only* place you can find Jack Reacher though is in these books.

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I really enjoy the narrator and story.

I never get tired of a good JR story, if Lee Child agrees to another film, please let's not have a small guy playing the big man 😉

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Loved It Jeff Harding Brings Reacher story to life

Great Reacher Story Excellently narrated by Jeff Harding featuring part of the old team ."Don't mess with the special Investigators". Thanks again Lee Child

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Who wrote this!!

I have loved ever jack reacher novel to date. I have had them all on audiobook. This did not feel like a jack reacher. The formula is completely out. The story is shallow. Where was the mystery or the side plot. Zero suspense. The narrator was also very poor. The staccato delivery was shocking. Stop start narration as though he couldn't slip out of character. Also the continued suggestions that Germany is or was completely racist in the late nineties is abhorrent... and yes I know this is a work of fiction. The worst thing to happen to jack reacher since tom cruise..

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Not the best Reacher but adequate

If you could sum up Night School in three words, what would they be?

More of same

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?

Slow burner but gets there in the end. It does not grip you from the outset so you have to persist for several hours.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

As usual - the finale

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Reacher - sans Tom Cruise!

Any additional comments?

Jeff Harding does his usual excellent job of bringing the plot to life in a uniquely Reacher way, but the book lacks the lustre of previous efforts.

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Not the best

I usually like Jeff Harding's reading of the Reacher books, but he seems bored here. Maybe it's the short sentences that child has taken to writing in. Don't get much emotion across. All sound the same. Story is pretty good though compared to the last couple

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Brilliant

Another top story, captured perfectly by Jeff Harding. Gripping descriptions and details tell the tale and keept me interested all the way through.

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a nice shake up

I've plowed through all the reacher books in the last year or so and it's nice to have a story where the plot is a little different where Reacher has to work inside a team and inside a structure. although he's a great ronin type it's fun to have him in new situations

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