Child, Lee. One Shot . Bantam Dell.New York. 2006.

Child has a racy, stylish writing. You want to emulate him. His sentences are short, rarely complex or compound. They describe vividly but in a terse, compact manner. Colours, sights and sounds come alive. You feel like a camera following the action. Easy to read and visualise. These are his strengths. 
His biggest strength is,  ofcourse,  Reacher. In this book, Reacher takes on a slam-dunk murder case, to find the truth. James Barr, an ex-sniper, discharged from service because he shoots at four American soldiers, is once again accused of murdering five civilians in a pre-meditated murder. The twist in the tale begins when the accused refuses to speak and asks for Reacher. 
Reacher comes to Indiana with the intention of indicting Barr and finds himself drawn into a web of intrigue and doubt. The D.A., his lawyer daughter and Yanni, the ABC reporter join hands with Reacher to save a man, wrongly accused. The villains remain incognito and Reacher goes all out to hunt and kill them mercilessly for their gruesome acts of vengenance. As is the  pattern in most of the books, Reacher himself becomes a suspect during the course of action.
The cool logic, reasoning and calculations of Reacher are intriguing and gripping...they are one reason why the reader keeps going. 
Reacher becomes the stuff of legend - heard about, rarely seen and finally merging with the wind, trees and outback roads of the U.S.