Though that may be true, it’s a very entertaining one and is not lacking in utilitarian value. I confess that I was very under-impressed with JACK REACHER’S RULES at first glance, as it seemed to be a shameless shill to capitalize on the holiday season. It’s the perfect gift for the man who has everything and wants nothing read it and see what I mean.' If you want to be like him, or if you just like him, you need a copy of JACK REACHER’S RULES.
JACK REACHER’S RULES isn’t that book, but it’s still cool. It’s a digest-sized, library-bound book, one that will fit into your back pocket without too much trouble - not that you will be carrying it everywhere with you (one would want to commit its contents to memory before, say, one was in danger of getting one’s posterior kicked on the street, rather than calling a halt to the proceedings while referencing the topic on page 36). Those of us who were around in 1959 might remember THE HARDY BOYS DETECTIVE HANDBOOK. It was not strictly a part of the popular series, though it did feature Frank and Joe helping their detective father on a case involving a plastics company, if memory serves, and it got about as deeply into the nitty-gritty of detective work as a 10- or 12-year-old boy of that time was going to get.
