In this one, our hero has been dropped off in the middle of no where and nothing was around and he’s been walking for hours. And without any form of communication from him, Alex Shepard fears that the agent might not be alive anymore. At this moment of time, the ex-undercover NCIS agent and current drifter Jack Widow makes his entry. At the start of the book’s story, it is shown that while moving along his drifting path, Jack Widow gets thrown into a deadly conspiracy neck deep. From being a total stranger and drifter, Jack Widow turns himself into a hero with the help of the missions he takes up to help the ones in need.

The Jack Widow book series often draws comparisons to Jack Reacher due to the titular character, Jack Widow, being a former military man turned drifter, similar to Lee Child's Reacher. Lee Child is a master at this art, and a master at taking the reader along the mental journey of hero and villain alike. Scared, alone, and with no one to trust, she runs to the only place she thinks is safe, her summer post as a fire lookout.They often go down the drain, but everyone follows steps that seem plausible, at least from their perspective points of view. Widow races against time to save an innocent girl and keep the President alive from enemies, both foreign and domestic. Without saying it in so many words the suggestion is here is the son of Reacher though Reacher was not aware of it.

Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp, and Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man will love this installment of the million-selling Jack Widow thriller series.In the meantime, readers can explore related characters like Alex Ormond and Philip in Blade's wider literary universe. I liked the story, but it’s a lot like following a Jack Reacher book with less hand to hand fighting. The former special forces officer is heading to Europe, to go face to face with some of Putin's most killer henchmen! Fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp, and Mark Greaney’s The Gray Man series will love the Jack Widow action-thriller-mystery series.

It’s pretty solid advice, to be honest, but I’ve said it before and will happily repeat it: Don’t take it to a dogmatic level. The first book, in particular, seemed to me to try too hard to be another Jack Reacher story, and to be fair to the author he does acknowledge his debt to both Reacher and Lee Child at the end. The narrative kicks off when Widow rescues US Marshal Fry, setting the stage for a fast-paced rescue mission.

All in all a good fast moving thriller storyline and read remembering that however well your trained it’s highly unlikely that a single person could achieve what Widow did. Trying to prove his innocence, Widow’s need to right wrongs dredges up a hidden network of pure evil.

Widow gets stuck in one difficult situation after the other and thankfully he has the time and background to deal with them. What he discovers is a mystery of missing girls and townspeople harboring a deadly secret—a secret they’ll die to protect. Scott Blade isn't a traditional novelist who spends his time stuck behind a computer desk in some dreary office.As the Rainmaker murders the world’s top shooters in cold blood, one by one, only Widow can track and stop him. The character of Jack Widow, brought to life by Scott Blade, has been compared to Lee Child’s iconic Jack Reacher, and Blade captures a similar essence of mystery and adventure in his writing. For a Reacher style novel, you expect a certain amount of telling, because Reacher and his buddies are all about details.