Tough-guy protagonist adds another layer
‘Grain, meet the railroad,” Jack Reacher tells himself, after he’s picked the latest sinister little Nowheresville in which to spend a book’s length of time. He appears to have gotten off a train in the middle of wheat country, for no better reasons than he liked the cryptic name of the town, Mother’s Rest, and that he’s got foolproof instincts for sniffing out trouble. Lee Child’s Reacher series…