Never Go Back, Child - B+

                                         This is the eighteenth book in the Jack Reacher series and the NYTimes thinks it's the best one so far. Lee Child began publishing these stories in 1997.  They are rather hard to characterize and sometimes I wonder why I, and so many others, are fascinated.  I think, at least for me, it is that the good guys always win and  do so emphatically.  There's something about righteous revenge.  In this one, Reacher heads back to the D.C. area to meet the current commander of his former unit.   Before he knows it, he's recalled to active duty, accused of a murder from almost twenty years ago,finds himself a defendant in a paternity suit, and tossed in the same jail as the woman who in now the CO of the 110th M.P.'s. Needless to say, he doesn't sit still for this, and off we go on a blast of a joy ride, in which he and his successor are exonerated.