'Killing Floor' by Lee Child
'Killing Floor' by Lee Child

The good

  • Fast-paced thriller.

  • A few OK action scenes.

  • A few interesting deductions.

The not so good

  • The writing and dialog aren’t as smoothed and polished as in the later Jack Reacher books.

  • The characters, including Jack Reacher himself, doesn’t seem particularly well fleshed out.

  • The coincidences that set up the plot are… a bit absurd.

  • Some unnecessarily gory violence/torture.

Overall

It felt like Lee Child was still getting a feel for things, which makes sense, as this was the first book in the series. I actually had read two much later books first (One Shot and 61 Hours) and found those more polished, harder to put down, with a more crisply-defined protagonist.

Rating: 3 stars