In The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher, the itinerant ex-homicide investigator for the military, becomes too much of a vigilante for my taste. There is also a series a coincidences that stretch credulity. The beginning will definitely hold your interest, however.Minding his own business while having breakfast, Reacher is arrested in a small town in Georgia and accused of a particularly vicious murder. Jack was arrested because he had been seen walking down the road near the industrial site where the body had been discovered. Jack had been on a cross-country bus and had just arbitrarily asked the driver to let him off at some random intersection so he could walk fouteen miles to some town to learn more about Blind Blake, a black jazz singer. After establishing his alibi, he learns that the dead man is his brother. Jack had not seen his brother, a treasury agent who had single-handedly eliminated counterfeiting from the United States, for many years. Anyway, turns out the town is being run by the Kleiner family. They have figured out a way to manufacture almost perfect $100 bills.
Reacher is a good character, but his sudden brilliant insights and instant appeal to women, make this title just too unreal. Good fast airplane read.
