Make Me (with bonus short story Small Wars)

" 　英語の学習のために買って読んだ。大筋の流れは理解できたが、細かい描写や感情、物語の流れが理解できなかった。リーチャーの冒険譚で、流れ的には映画化されたアウトローと同様、謎を解き、勧善懲悪の活劇アクション。しかし、悪役のほうの、殺しの目的や金儲けの仕組みがいまいち読み取れず、残念。　ただ、細かい章建てで、洋書の中では読みやすいほうなのだろう。ジェフリーデーヴァより、よほど読みやすい。マイケルコナリーと同程度の英語....." 

“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me.

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책의 3분의 2를 넘어야 이야기의 방향이 조금씩 보이기 시작하는 작품이다. 이야기의 전개가 느린 편에 대해서 불만을 표시하는 독자들도 있는 거 같고 이야기 자체에 대한 불만도 좀 있는거 같다. 아마 작품자체가 상당히 어두운 내용을 다루고 있어서 인 거 같다. 하지만 악당들에 대한 거침없는 응징은 마음에 든다. Deep Web, suicide, snuff films, killers, travelling, conspiracy, chasing, psycho, pigs, hacking, Mother's Rest ( the place where bad things grow ) 등의 단어들이 중요한 의미를 갖고 있다.