I got tired of reading books on my phone so I bought a Kindle Paperwhite. It is not my first Paperwhite, I bought one so long ago that Amazon’s order list doesn’t go back far enough for me to tell you when. Donna is currently using that one. I gave it to her once I got a smarty pants phone back in 2017.
Some of the first books I added on the new Kindle were my old favorites, including the Jack Reacher books. I was going to read them series order, but thought maybe I’d try them chronologically. The first four books chronologically all take place while Reacher is still in the Army. Number four (#16 in publication order), The Affair, concerns his last case as a member of the Army. His actions in the book get him on the Involuntary Separation List and he decides if the Army doesn’t want him he doesn’t want the Army.
I was thirty-six years old, a citizen of a country I had barely seen, and there were places to go, and there were things to do. There were cities, and there was countryside. There were mountains, and there were valleys. There were rivers. There were museums, and music, and motels, and clubs, and diners, and bars, and buses. There were battlefields and birthplaces, and legends, and roads. There was company if I wanted it, and there was solitude if I didn’t.
I picked a road at random, and I put one foot on the curb and one in the traffic lane, and I stuck out my thumb.
After The Affair the 5th book chronologically is Killing Floor and is book number one in publication order and the inspiration for season one of Amazon’s series Reacher. I started reading the book and got to page 581 or about 15% through and thought, why don’t I watch the first season again? So I did.
This is actually the 3rd time I’ve watched it, the third time I’ve enjoyed it and the third time I’ve shaken my head at the end when each of the main three people get to kill the person that antagonized them the worst during the series.
Guess I’ll go back and finish the book then keep on reading in chronological order…