They are up to no good: their métiers are drugs, protection, gambling, prostitution, and money lending. They have intimidated and bribed the town into obeying their demands. An invisible yet ominous line divides the urban streets into their respective territories. The city in Blue Moon belongs to two rival gangs, Albanians and Ukrainians, each with their armies of enforcers. He has borrowed heavily from them to pay his daughter’s huge, potentially life-saving medical bills. That is merely a trope, the first piece of the Reacher action, which attaches him to the old man, whose life and that of his family, it turns out, has become hostage to usurious money lenders. He already is embroiled in protecting a sure-to-be victim: He notices a fellow passenger, an old man, being cased by a sketchy young guy because of what appears to be a thick wad of money bulging out of an envelope. In Blue Moon, Reacher arrives, by bus, at a midsize, nameless city. Like all its predecessors, it will shoot to the New York Times (and other) bestseller, top 10 fiction books. Yet as the adage goes, if you want the truth, read fiction.īlue Moon is the 24th Jack Reacher suspense novel. Is this more “fake news”? Well, novels are, by definition, fake (though fiction is the better term). Russian hackers are central to the plot in Lee Child’s latest Jack Reacher book.
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