Past Tense by Lee Child

Past Tense by Lee Child - 400 pages
Jack Reach Book 23

I was fortunate enough to snag an advance copy eBook through NetGalley.  The book will be released on November 5th. 

This book opens of course with Reacher on his travels across the country with his toothbrush in his pocket and a minimal plan, just a destination.  Chance leads him to a small New England town where his father was raised in a random quest to stop by the family homestead.  In true Jack Reacher fashion he soon involves himself in the affairs of the town and serves as an avenging force to help right both current and past wrongs.  Reacher learns truths about his family that are very startling.  The side plot involving an isolated motel reads like a slowly unrolling horror movie and is very chilling. 

By the time you reach the 23rd book in a series, you pretty much know the formula and aren't there if you aren't on board for it.  This book held my attention more than the past few entries in the series.  I found the action more in the realm of possibility than the others.  Child is falling into the habit of placing Reacher in locations and situations without cell service and in this book it is more organic to the plot than it has been so I wasn't thrown out of the story.