New Kid in Town

A Jack Reacher Story

By: Andrew Child

Narrated by: Scott Brick

A thrilling new addition to the bestselling Jack Reacher series, by Andrew Child

Hitching a ride cross-country, Reacher manages to thwart an unsavory criminal hiding out in a sleepy backwater town in rural Texas …

This story originally appeared in Hotel California: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories edited by Don Bruns.

©2022 Andrew Child (P)2024 Blackstone Publishing

It ends too soon

At the end of the story you are anticipating more conclusions. The author definitely could have gotten many more miles out of the story, but good nonetheless.

Needs More

This was a short story within the Reacher universe, and while it was good, it felt like it was missing something.

11

Too short it still had plenty of room to go to be completed maybe get to some justice

If I didn’t know, I would’ve thought it was Lee Child writing this

I’m a big fan when I read that Lee Charles was handing over Jack to his little brother. I was worried that it wouldn’t be the same quality that he wouldn’t understand Jack as a character. I was really worried. I’m no longer worried. This was phenomenal one of the best short stories I’ve ever read, the author understands Jack

Ends abruptly

The story was actually more interesting than the most recent full length novel but the short story was too short. I didn’t feel like any of the plot points were explained well enough and then it just ends. Needed to be fleshed out a little.