4 Diane Capri: Jack in Box, Get Back Jack, Jack and Joe, Deep Cover Jack

I discovered this series and author this year and read the first one in May, Don't Know Jack.  

Back cover, Jack in a Box

 Posting the 4 more Diane Capri Jack books I have read this year.  Just finished Deep Cover Jack last night which will conclude my reading this series.  The stories are just not holding my interest as FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar continue on their strange off the books assignment from Charles Cooper to find Jack Reacher.  The stories are ok but require me recalling the  specific characters and situations from previous Reacher novels that are intertwined in these books.  The writing is good but for some reason I am just not gripped.  The last one  took me several months as I kept setting it aside and reading something else.  I was not intrigued enough to read it all through.  Had to make myself finish it.  I have copied the front and back covers here of each.   Jack in a Box is a short story, not a novel, only 56 pages, I read it in June.  Otto's mother, Sen Li, is Vietnamese and her father, Captain Luther Otto a West Point graduate of . German ancestry. 

Pg 12 repeats advice from Sun Li, that  becomes Kim's mantra,   used in the first book and will throughout the series   "when there's only 1 choice, it's the right choice." Otto like Jack Reacher is a black coffee addict.  

I read Get Back Jack in July.

Back Cover Jack and Joe

Get Back Jack Back cover

It reflects back to the Reacher novel, 

Bad Luck and Trouble, and brings in

 Frances Neagley to help get

 hostages back from  a cartel.  

348 pages. 

The third one is Jack and Joe, read in August and as the title suggests involves something about Reacher's brother Joe, a treasury  agent, deceased. 237 pages. 

Page 5, Chapter One on an Airbus flight, Otto never really overcomes a nervousness about flying. "  The Airbus's wings rocked and we hit the ground with a hard thud and couple bounces, but we made it. And I believed the danger

had passed.  But you never see the disaster that gets you."  

The 4th and last novel 275 pages is  "Deep Cover Jack." It brings in Susan Duffy as Gaspar and Otto are tasked to Cape Abbott, Maine.  That was the setting in a Reacher novel for contraband smuggling by a rug merchant.  Duffy now at ATF and on shaky career terms, is intent to keep on the case and her friend Teresa Justice who  has gone missing inside the house.  Teresa believed there was human trafficking going on.  Branch now works for private security and formerly was in ATF with Duffy. Finally in this novel, Kim is beginning to get  distrustful of Charles Cooper after warnings from others,.  Pg 265, " "Villanueva scowled, knowing full well by now who'd been on that line, Charles Cooper.  He muttered, " I wouldn't trust that viper if he was the man bringing my last meal on death row."  "Amen to that" Branch and Duffy said simultaneously.  Gaspar said nothing but Kim could hear his "I told you so" ringing in her ears anyway.  He'd never trusted the Boss.  But she had, in the beginning.  "  

  And for reference here on 2 pages is Lee Child's endorsement of the Diane Capri Hunt for Reacher Series.