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No child's play!

In the footsteps of Ethan Hunt (Mission Impossible), Jason Bourne (Robert Ludlum's Bourne Identity fame), Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy's hero), Jack Bauer (24) and of course the legendary unforgettable James Bond (martini, shaken but not stirred), I found another quick thinking, invincible, away from danger without a scratch type of a hero in the form of Jack Reacher in Tom Child's Gone Tomorrow. All hail Jack Reacher! I bet it will be made a movie soon. The last time I heard, Tom Cruise has been rumoured to be casted in the leading role. (Oh,no!) I just completed reading this book which I bought from my last holidays! It is just another thriller with an ala-John McClane (Die Hard) type of a hero who could get away from any situation with his thinking cap and nerdy type of knowledge of plethora of issues. Nerdy book worm, he is not. Reacher is an American ex-Special Forces army personnel with expert know-how on weapons, ammunition and combat. He appears to be a drifter now with n...