I am reading the series one by one, though the first one I read was Tripwire. The books have been very gripping and the storytelling is second to none. Reacher is easily lovable though he has some peculiar eccentricities.

Spoiler Alert. This book is a good read, there is no doubt, but there are two obvious plot flaws that jump out at me which makes the story less compelling than the others, specially given that Jack is all about reasoning and logic and outsmarting the enemy (and the reader).

The lesser flaw, as I see it, is the murder of Peter Marks, when they knew quite well that it wasn't necessary and she was actually caught in the traffic jam, as was their own guy trailing her. It is justified by their being fanatical, but that is really not enough.

The second and major flaw is in regard to the flash drive. The main story is based on the hunt for this flashdrive, but a two second thought process leads us to the inevitable. The villains here wanted to get rid of a file, and they successfully get Susan to delete it. But why have her copy it to a thumb drive in the first place? After she deletes it their mission is accomplished. Having her copy it somewhere else, and base a whole story on trying then to recover that copy to destroy it, when it needn't have been made in the first place, just doesn't make sense. It's definitely a gaping plot hole difficult to overlook.