No Middle Name: Jack Reacher, The Complete Collected Short Stories by Lee Child
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
No Middle Name is a Jack Reacher action adventure short story collection.
Twelve stories all featuring Reacher at different stages of his life from a teenager to his nomadic post-army life, which is the basis for many of the full length novels.
My two favourite were Second Son and High Heat both showing teenager Reacher. Second Son, especially, highlighted Reacher’s unique way of thinking, and there was a good touch of family life which is absent in later books.
The stories did vary in length, some feeling like short novellas, which was fine with me as generally I prefer a longer tale. I’m quite late getting to read the Jack Reacher books, but I do enjoy them. The tag line for this book ‘We all need Jack Reacher, a righteous avenger for our troubled times’ is most suitable for how I feel at the end of each of these books.
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Book Description:
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. 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.
The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time.
The other stories in the collection are:
Second Son
James Penney’s New Identity
Guy Walks Into a Bar
Deep Down, High Heat
Not a Drill
Small Wars
All of which have previously been published as ebook shorts.
Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written:
Everyone Talks
Maybe They Have a Tradition
No Room at the Motel
The Picture of the Lonely Diner
Rosie Amber 
I don’t even need to read a review. Has Lee child ever written a bad book? All are solid gold IMHO :DD Thanks Rosie!
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I have read a couple of his recent books co-written with Andrew Child and Reacher hasn’t come across as the one that we know and love so well. Probably an adjustment issue with two writers but they left me frustrated.
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I haven’t read any of his books yet, so another one to check out. Thanks, Rosie!
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They are big on action adventure.
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I’m a confirmed Jack Reacher fan – I’ve read all the books, but not this one! Thanks for the alert!
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It’s great to find one that you haven’t read.
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My sister is a huge Reacher fan and owns all of them, so I have read this set of stories. I liked them, too. Sherry
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Any of these books that we find are shared around the family here too!
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Awesome!
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