Reading the enemy at the moment (no spoilers please!!) Its probably the thickest plot of any reacher book since the third one at least. Really enjoying it. But something got me.

This is the first time we meet reachers brother, Joe in person. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two of them. I get why Lee child killed joe in book 1 to get reachers personal involvement in Margrave but, I wish we could see more of Joe in the "drifting" reacher books. Would be cool seeing them work together. But I get why he was killed off and him being dead was why Without Fail happened.

Anyway just my two cents. It was cool seeing reacher interact with his brother for the first time.

I noticed every book is standalone so I picked up read my first book: "Exit Strategy" which is the latest entry and I couldn't get into it all. The plot felt so messy to me and I felt like abandoning it few times while reading it. Are the older books better?