No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

A genuinely mixed collection of short stories with episodes from Reacher's teenage days up to "Too Much Time" which sets the scene for the next Jack Reacher novel "The Midnight Line" due out in Autumn 2017.

I'm often tempted by short stories but when a credit can buy you anything up to 50 hours or more it's hard to justify it on as little as an hour or two. I genuinely think Audible need to think about a system that possibly allows the purchase of multiple short stories for a single credit or indeed encourage authors to do more compilations like this in the audio format.

The quality of the stories does vary. Highlights for me were "High Heat" which tied Jack's history into a real-life serial killer and "Small Wars" which I found genuinely intriguing. Some of the rest I thought were a little pointless but if you'd like the odd nugget of Jack Reacher goodness occasionally between books this book will provide it.

The narrator Kerry Shale is Child's go-to guy for the shorter and abridged works. I prefer Jeff Harding but he does do a reasonable job.

All in all a good package for Reacher completists with the short stories available in a cost-sensible package. The quality and interest level of the stories do vary considerably though.

Don't get me wrong I do enjoy Kerry Shale's narrations but Jeff Harding is my all time favourite narrator (I've searched Audible using his name to discover authors new to me because Jeff's narration is always so very good).
I love Lee Child's writing, his character of Jack Reacher is probably my favourite and I listen to 4 or 5 audiobooks a week so have encountered many great protagonists from many great authors. John Connolly's Charlie Parker, Tom Wood's Victor the Assassin, Mark Douglas-Home's Sea Detective Cal McGill and many more are eagerly awaited in new books but Jack Reacher is such an interesting character particularly as shown in this collection of short stories. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing about his life as a kid and his travels around Asia, the US and even a short trip to England. As always I eagerly await the next instalment.

Some of these stories I already have, in fact I have all the previously released Audible Reacher short stories but there is enough other stories here for Lee Child fans to warrant spending one credit. Throughly recommended that especially if you haven't heard Kerry Shale as the narrator, superb

Typical Lee Child. Cool, clever and Uber violent stories, concerning Jack and occasionally his brother. The reader makes him sound like Clint Eastwood - probably a better choice than Tom Cruise

I realy enjoyed this audio book. Some of these short stories were new to me but I enjoyed them all. I am also a fan of the narrator.

packed with Jack Reachers dry humour. A solid few hours of audible entertainment.well worth the time.

I have read the short stories already published on Kindle and EPub but there are new unpublished stories included. It has been some time since I read the short stories so they were a good listen and the new ones were the icing on the cake.

Very good, some stories are brilliant and a great insight into Jack Reacher's early life. Recommended.

Loved all the short stories some shorter than others but couldn't get past thinking of Dirty Harry when Reacher was voiced.

yes but i have all Reacher books from audible but i have 2 hard books 1 i bought for my son as he has not got audible last year and this one as a easier to read as each story is 1 chapter

reacher because i can remember he is 6ft 5ins not 5ft 3ins like in the films

i love to listen in bed but as each chapter is a new story i can listen for 8 nights b4 sleepand get up after anew story b4 noon

no as the others last 2 sitting as 5-7 hours is a long time to sit without the work i did beforewhich is why i lie down to listen while husband is watching what he wants and not sport

this is the best Jack reacher is my fav story now Dick francis has died and Felix is too needing what the papers say for his ideas and not what his heroes neededthese are all the books i need to read or listen to