“Never Go Back” is a Reacher for series followers: it picks up a thread from three earlier books and drops him almost at once into a conspiracy. Some readers place it in the top tier, praising its layered mysteries and attacks that cannot be settled by force alone. Others find the constant travelling wearing, and some feel the pace drops near the end.

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About the book

Never Go Back is the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published on 29 August 2013 in the United Kingdom and on 3 September 2013 in the United States. The book continues the storyline covered in the novels 61 Hours, Worth Dying For and A Wanted Man. The novel, like a majority of the Jack Reacher novels, is narrated in third-person point of view.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 7.8 across 241 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 62% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.