It’s not often that the gun play in a book is so poorly depicted as to make enjoying the book difficult and if Killing Floor had been better written it might not have been. I should have stopped right there and taken that as a sign that the rest of the book would be much the same. I sighed and said “that’s not how shotguns work” but got back to the book. In the first couple of pages of the book, which is written from the 1st person POV of Jack Reacher, a shotgun is described as throwing a “cone of death” that will “hit three or four people”. For the people that just skim the posts, I’ll make this quick: it sucked. However, the Jack Reacher movie got pretty positive reviews, so I figured I’d try out another one of Lee Child’s books and went to the first book in the series, Killing Floor. The plot wasn’t great, the writing was okay, and the gun stuff was so bad it jarred me out of the book.
It was called Persuader, and it wasn’t very good. A while back, I picked up one of the Jack Reacher novels on a whim.