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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
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List Price: $27.00
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Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ISBN: 0385340567
Label: Delacorte Press
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Studio: Delacorte Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Customer Rating:
Summary: Reacher goes wobbly
Comment: One of the reasons I've always bought and read this series is that I enjoyed a main character with an unshakeable sense of honor and hardly any dithering. So it was disappointing when the author jumped on the tired old anti-war bandwagon. I thought at least he might hold it down to the usual "I hate this war but I honor the servicemen who fight in it," but this time Reacher really goes in the tank. "My country let me down, so I'm released from all personal honor, too." Who needs it? It's the last Reacher novel I'll buy or read.
I guess if more servicemen had felt this way, we wouldn't have won the war while Child wasn't watching.
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Summary: Disappointing - entertaining, but disappointing
Comment: I LOVE Reacher. One of my favorite all-time fiction lines is from The Hard Way:
Reacher. Alone in the dark. Invincible.
This book ranks at the bottom on the Reacher list, primarily because I don't need lectures about the war in Iraq and the evil administration that hates its soldiers. Leave out the politics next time, Lee.
Otherwise, it was okay. But I read Lee Child to get better than okay.
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Summary: LOVED this book...
Comment: ... and I am so very grateful I am not a Christian War Monger.
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Summary: Best Reacher Book Yet
Comment: This is Child's best Reacher book. Although the pace is a little slower than many of the other books in the Reacher series, the slower pace, combined with the intriguing mysteries to be solved, make it very worthwhile. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Lee Child, meet Laura Ingraham
Comment: Lee Child, if you should somehow read this review, let me request you read a MUCH better book by Laura Ingraham, "Shut up and Sing". I humbly ask you to Shut up and WRITE!
Why do otherwise good writers insist on throwing their personal politics into what should be escapist adventure? Is it worth the risk of losing future customers/readers? I'm not sure if I'll read another of your books, but I am quite sure I will never pay full price for them again. Bargain bin material for sure.
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