The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

" Jack Reacher's deep backstory, like Harry Bosch's, is no longer referenced in the twenty-second novel in this series about an ex-military cop, now a drifter, who lives an eccentric Zen-monk-existential life. He somehow becomes involved in righting wrongs without the aid of weapons, cell phones, computer, automobile, credit cards, home, family. Hitchhikers stop and pick him up, even though he's six-five and mighty threatening, with hands as big as dinner plates. He's smoothly included by law enforcement or others with institutional standing who need his flinty strategic intelligence and physical might to help them; data banks and institutional depth and recency are still not enough. I imagine Rutger Hauer, with intimations of replicant status, instead of Tom Cruise here. But I always miss the early novels' accruing narrative of haunting loss that has created my reader loyalty to a series, even as the quality of them becomes sere, repetitive, and over-compressed......"

그의 다른 작품들에 비해서 표현이나 문장의 구조가 심플한 편이다. 그래서 장편이지만 진도가 잘 나가는 작품이다. 단점은 좀 지루하다는 것이다. 이야기 전개 속도가 좀 느리다. Reacher 식 액션장면들이 좀 부족한 거 같고 이야기의 구조에 비해서 불필요한 인물도 좀 등장하는 거 같다. 놀라운 반전도 없다. 전쟁, 휴유증, 반지, 전당포, 추적, 배신, 진통제, 중독, 쌍둥이, 자살, 암살, 거래, 탐정, 해커, 웨스트 포인트, 세탁소, 용기 등이 주요한 의미를 갖는 단어들이다.