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| Original Title: | Nothing to Lose |
| ISBN: | 0385340567 (ISBN13: 9780385340564) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Jack Reacher #12, Jack Reacher Chronological Order #14 |
| Characters: | Jack Reacher |
| Setting: | Colorado(United States) |
Lee Child
Hardcover | Pages: 416 pages Rating: 3.91 | 50716 Users | 2492 Reviews
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| Title | : | Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher #12) |
| Author | : | Lee Child |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 416 pages |
| Published | : | June 3rd 2008 by Delacorte Press (first published March 24th 2008) |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Crime |
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Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.
Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand.
Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.
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I shoulda effin' known better.On the recommendation of quite a few (formerly) reliable folks, I finally cranked through a 500+ Jack Reacher novel.Short version: Fucking terrible.Longer and angrier version:It seems to me that Lee Child really wants to write Robert B. Parker novels, but doesn't have the balls to actually go through with it. There are entire pages that could have been ripped out of a Spenser novel. Shit like this (paraphrasing because I don't want to open the goddamn book everDisappointing but effective installment in Child's Jack Reacher series. This but seemed long for a Reacher thriller and might have been strengthed by cutting one of the three main plot strands. I felt that Child made it more confusing than necessary and could have shored up the suspense with tipping his hand a little more. Starts off great, but we've seen some of the same elements in Killing Floor, Die Trying and Echo Burning. But still, nobody does hardcore, bad-ass loner fiction like Child.
After reading about 8 of Child's Jack Reacher books, I finally found a dud. It started out thrilling, as expected, but quickly became almost boring. I can not believe I am typing those words. Reacher's repeatedly doing the same thing, over and over (returning to a bad place) was tedious and so unlike our hero's usual behavior. The plot wandered all over the place and the book was too long. I found it impossible to buy into the far-fetched "conspiracy theory" with its pathetic "villains" and was
I'm not sure I can keep going with these, which is unfortunate since I have three left that I've borrowed. This one, my second Lee Child/Jack Reacher book, was marginally better than Bad Luck And Trouble, but suffered from different problems. Nothing To Lose, much like the book in sequence before it, has a fun overall plot idea ruined by a protagonist who is hard to root for, a lot of meandering plot, and a lot of pure guesswork that turns out to be correct. The story, or at least the main
This book maybe my last in the Lee Child series, but my decision isn't solely based on this book alone. The main reasons are that the gory scenes are too gory for my taste, and there is too much of detail in every book which makes me skip many sentences at a time.This book didn't appeal to me because of the following reasons:[1] I don't see a 'drive' or reason for Reacher to go back to a town time and again where he isn't welcome.[2] Reacher pokes his nose in all the private places, and yet, the
3.5/5At the individual level in sweaty gyms the thugs doing the training had pointed out that gentlemen who behaved decently weren't around to train anyone. They were already dead. Therefore: Hit early, hit hard.Good, almost great.As always happens when I pick up Lee Child's books, I was completely hooked and once I got into the story, I had real trouble putting it down. The moment I opened the first page, my curiosity was piqued immediately. I couldn't stop guessing and wondering what was
Jack Reacher, the ex-Army MP protagonist in Lee Child's long-running series, knows what duty means. He understands a soldier's duty to his country, but he also knows that duty runs two ways. One's country---and its leaders, politicians, and citizens---has a duty to its soldier. More often than not, Reacher believes, that duty is forgotten, and when that happens---when a soldier feels that he has nothing to gain from serving a corrupt country with a corrupt ideology---he starts to feel that he
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