It might have been twice the excitement if this was a full sized novel, but this barely reaches novella length. At a mere 80 pages, there really isn't any space to build relationships between the two heroes.
Instead we get them both being assigned undercover to Fort Knox on different cases, Trent is there deliberately to catch Reacher as the lead suspect in a 20 year old murder case, Reacher is there to investigate corruption in the higher ranks.
We get brief initial distrust, followed by working together briefly, an action sequence, a resolution to Trent's case, and an epilogue.
It's all fairly entertaining, but it's far from the best thing that Ms Slaughter has written, I can't judge on the Lee Child since I don't recall reading any of his before.
The machismo runs rampant in this brief little tale. The credibility scores several points lower.
This killed an hour quite effectively. Would I read it again? Probably not.
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