Any Means Necessary

Hilarious and failed attempt at replicating the ‘Jack Reacher' formula.

Reacher is generally ridiculous, but remains almost plausible if you suspend your disbelief and commit to the fairy tale world that Lee Child creates.

This guy, on the other hand, demands an investment of faith bordering on the religious - and even then the story barrels on past implausibility into the preposterous and farcical.

The White House is blown up in the first 100 pages, for goodness sake, and things just get more ludicrous from there.

Some of my favourite quotes:

Was he really going to drive out to Mount Weather, now, after almost forty hours without sleep?

Yes.

He spun, took a knee, and fired two shots. He knew they had better be perfect shots, or else he was dead. He wouldn't have time to take a third.

BOOM. BOOM.

Luke saw no movement, as all became still. Finally, there was silence. He looked outside and saw the two men, both dead, both with perfect head shots.

He felt excruciating pain as he felt the bullet graze his arm. Blood squirted everywhere.
But he knew from experience it was a flesh wound. It was a small price to pay for saving her life.