Once In A....

Here's another review I swore I wrote, but, in reality, I just discussed it with a friend. Am I losing it? Probably. I both need to interact with people and do not want to be around people. What strange times.

I quite like Jack Reacher, even if his circumstances are a bit unbelievable. In book #24, Reacher sees an old man, with an envelope full of money, fall asleep on a bus. He also spies a rapscallion who is eyeing the envelope. When the old man gets off at his stop, so does the rapscallion. And so does Reacher.

Reacher thwarts a robbery and, in his insistence on helping the old man home, is now eyebrows deep in gangsters and mafia goings on. How does he do this?

The old man is actually using the money to pay back a loan shark, and, for some reason, Reacher decides to act as the old man to get more info. We get the back story on why this old couple hits up mafia loan sharks in the first place (it feels slightly incredulous) and it must hit Reacher's sympathy bone, because he stays on to help them out.

A waitress comes along for the ride in taking down all of the mafia. Again...what?

If you disregard the credibility of such a story and you choose to go on the ride without thinking, this is an excellent book with an abnormal amount of violence, even for Reacher.