Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Jerks the reader around

I picked this book up at a modest discount at a Borders Clearance sale. It kept me reading but really, it's not significantly better than quite a few of the 99-cent potboilers you can get on the Kindle. Food for thought, that.I expected better of a namebrand author like Lee Childs. The characters, including Reacher, are smart when the plot needs them to be and stupid when that's required, which is fairly often. Information gets withheld often--at one point, Reacher asks another character to repeat some key information, on-camera, three times, and never tells it to the reader. The various character breakdowns and suspensions of disbelief don't really add up to setting the book aside until near the very end and by then why not finish it?It was an okay poolside read, but if I'm looking for thrillers, I'll try Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and David Morrell, whose craftsmanship is almost always impeccable.