NIGHT SCHOOL by Lee Child

Finished Mo 7/30/18

The is a paperback that I picked up at the library book sale in June.
A Jack Reacher novel set in 1996.

The title refers to the opening scenes of the book. Reacher has just gotten a medal and then he is assigned to a 'school'. It's really an undercover operation involving an agent from the CIA and an agent from the FBI.

A sleeper cell from Germany has an Iranian turned by the US. This man has information that a terrorist organization is going to pay $100,000,000 for something- Is it info, is it a virus, is it a nuclear device? They don't know.

An American soldier in Germany, Wiley, had been AWOL for four months. This man had found ten lost H-bombs. These devices weigh only 50lbs and were designed to be carried into an area by a paratrooper.

Nicknamed 'Davy Crockett' - a boyfriend of Wiley's mother, 'Uncle', realized that the bombs had been lost.
The loss occurs because of the difference between the European '7' and '1'.

I wonder if the following ideas are true-
1) One 'H- Bomb' expends more energy than all of the bombs exploded during WWII, including the two 'A-Bombs'.

2) Is there really a nuclear device that's only fifty pounds and so small?

Reacher teams up with his female sidekick, Sargent Neagley.

Reacher has an affair with the liaison from the White House, Sinclair.

Reacher wears pants that were issued to the US Marines in the early 1960's.  Crates of these pants were lost in the system...just like the nuclear hardware.

The book ends as Reacher receives another medal, but this time 'the rest of the day was mine'.

Read the book in just a day and a half- hard to put down. But, every time I read a Jack Reacher novel I violently resist the thought of Tom Cruise portraying this character on the silver screen. The worst miscasting error in the history of Hollywood.