Lee Child is best known for his Jack Reacher novels, two of which have been made into movies. To fill in some of the gaps between novels, and to add to Reacher's back story, Child has, over the years, written a number of short pieces. These are now collected in one volume, No Middle Name:The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories.
This collection has quite a range of stories, including the "Reacher gets in trouble in a small town but ends up exposing a criminal conspiracy" story; the "Reacher as Army investigator" story, the "Reacher as a child" story, and some stories that include Reacher as a secondary character. (I found the latter to the most entertaining, simply because it's a departure from the usual Reacher story.)
As you might expect from any collection of short stories, especially one that spans 18 years of a writer's career, some of these stories are better than others. But I enjoyed all of them. "Too Much Time" is the only story that hasn't appeared elsewhere. Reacher fans will consider it worth the price of the book.
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