All in all a good package for Reacher completists with the short stories available in a cost-sensible package. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reachers past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. I prefer Jeff Harding but he does do a reasonable job. Jack No Middle Name Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. The narrator Kerry Shale is Child's go-to guy for the shorter and abridged works. Some of the rest I thought were a little pointless but if you'd like the odd nugget of Jack Reacher goodness occasionally between books this book will provide it.
Highlights for me were "High Heat" which tied Jack's history into a real-life serial killer and "Small Wars" which I found genuinely intriguing. 'Small Wars' takes readers back to 1989, when Reacher is an MP assigned to solve the brutal murder of a young officer found along an.
I genuinely think Audible need to think about a system that possibly allows the purchase of multiple short stories for a single credit or indeed encourage authors to do more compilations like this in the audio format. No Middle Name begins with 'Too Much Time,' a brand-new work of short fiction that finds Reacher in a hollowed-out town in Maine, where he witnesses a random bag-snatching but sees much more than a simple crime. I'm often tempted by short stories but when a credit can buy you anything up to 50 hours or more it's hard to justify it on as little as an hour or two. Buy a discounted Paperback of No Middle Name online from Australias leading online bookstore. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on. Booktopia has No Middle Name, The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories by Lee Child. Jack No Middle Name Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time.Īll of which have previously been published as ebook shorts.Īdded to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written:ĭon’t miss Reacher’s newest adventure, no.A genuinely mixed collection of short stories with episodes from Reacher's teenage days up to "Too Much Time" which sets the scene for the next Jack Reacher novel "The Midnight Line" due out in Autumn 2017. This is the first time all Lee Childs shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher’s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world. Jack ‘No Middle Name’ Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child’s shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume. ( 417 ratings) You have not rated this title. Child, Lee, Child, Lee, Title rated 3.85 out of 5 stars, based on 417 ratings. There were a couple of longish short stories here I hadnt seen before, including a good one about an episode in Reachers childhood on Okinawa, but most of the other shorts were just that: a page or two long, basically drafts or ideas Lee Child might expand on in the future. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories. the Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories. “Including a new novella, the clever, twisty tales reveal that even 13-year-old Reacher was a force to be reckoned with.” ( Sunday Mirror) Three of the longer short stories collected in 'No Middle Name' were appendixes to Jack Reacher novels and I had already read them. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories Jack Reacher novel, Lee Child Volume 21 of Jack Reacher: Author: Lee Child: Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2017: ISBN: 0399593578.