Dylan and I watched a couple of Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) films from Sky Cinema. I'm not a great fan of Tom Cruise, but the films weren't bad. I knew they originated in a series of books, so when I was in Waterstones in London, I checked them out. Killing Floor  is the first Jack Reacher book, so I bought it to read on the train back to Scotland.
    I enjoyed it. It's direct. The characters are well drawn. I like Reacher's uncompromising, unwavering drive to whatever happens to be on his mind at any one time. The plot is good - better than I expected. At a third of the way through I thought it was all pretty obvious and despaired that the good guys would ever see the light. But at two thirds of the way through the plot tightened up, and wasn't quite as simple as I had thought.
   Some of the action is slightly unlikely - but what do you expect from a thriller? Some of the tech has dated - but not so much as it ruins the story.
   It's not at all bad. I think I shall be getting some more of the series - there's loads of them - perhaps for my upcoming birthday.