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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Nothing to Lose? - Try over 1/2 your readers.:
Another left wing artist, in this case Child, successfully alienates his core audience with his "Child-ish" leftest political tripe. The only Reacher novel I didn't bother finishing.
Politics aside, still a sub-par Reacher story.:
Many here are knocking this book for Reacher's political views. Regardless of your politics, the book still does not measure up to previous work in the series. If you take out the political discussions, it is a weak story, with cardboard characters and improbable plot twists. Reacher seems to spend half of the book driving around aimlessly and cluelessly. Say what you want about previous books in the series, they were never boring. This one is boring. It reads like Child had to deliver a new book by a... more info
An Offensive Disappointment for a Longtime Fan:
My father-in-law and I bonded years ago when he introduced me to the genre of action thrillers. It began when he loaned me a box full of the first 60 or so Remo Williams novels. I still remember that chapter two of each book began with "His name was Remo and . . ." Our latest action hero has been Jack Reacher, the creation of British television writer Lee Child. Reacher (always Reacher in the series, never Jack) is an imaginative hero. He spent the first thirty-five years or so of his life on military... more info
Less but still good:
While this may be the least captivating of the Reacher books, he's still the toughest guy in literature. I certainly don't want to cross him. Nothing to Lose is somewhat unbelievable, but does confront a challenge of the Iraq War not thought about. The writing hasn't declined, only the plot line. Reacher never tires and Child has created a character who lives on in his strengths.
Ron Lealos author of Don't Mean Nuthin'
