Book Review: Night School by Lee Child

Night School is the latest entry in the Jack Reacher series that takes a look back at Reacher's days as a US Army MP. The novel takes place during 1996 and sees Reacher being assigned to an inter-agency operation under the cover of going to a night school (hence the title) which is focused on a group of Hamburg based Middle Eastern Men among whose number is a undercover CIA agent. The reason for the concern is that the group will be involved in the payment of 100 million dollars to an American citizen. As is to be expected it is Reacher is the one who takes the lead on the operation as he uses his deductive skills to identify the mysterious American and what it is that is worth them getting a very large sum of money. An another fixture of the Reacher novels is when our hero is outnumbered by a large number of bad guys and we get his thought process as he figures how to be the last one standing. Reacher also has a fling with a US government official just to offset the bone breaking violence. Child gives us a flavour of Hamburg  in the years of after German reunification and a sub plot involving neo-nazis. On the back of the book an number of bestselling authors give their tribute to Reacher, perhaps the most relevant to this book is Frederick Forsyth as it contains international intrigue that would not be out of placed in one of his novels. Night School keeps up the hit rate of the Jack Reacher series and is essential reading for all Reacher fans.