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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Killing Floor (Jack Reacher)
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Manufacturer: Jove
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780515141429
ISBN: 0515141429
Label: Jove
Manufacturer: Jove
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 2006-04-25
Publisher: Jove
Studio: Jove
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When Jack Reacher suddenly decides to ask a Greyhound bus driver to let him off near the town of Margrave, Georgia, he thinks it's because his brother once mentioned that the famed blues guitarist Blind Blake died there. But it doesn't take long for the footloose ex-military policeman to discover that there are plenty of strange--and very dangerous--things going on behind Margrave's manicured lawns and clean streets that demand his attention. This first thriller by a former television writer features some of the best-written scenes of action in recent memory, a crash course in currency and counterfeiting, and a hero who is just begging to be called on for an encore.
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Summary: Jack Reacher Is A Believable Super Hero
Comment: This is my second Jack Reacher read. I think the author does a great job creating page turning excitement. Even though many of Reacher's exploits may seem over the top. They are achieved in a plausible way. Reacher's brother was a top level treasury department boss who was the expert in counterfitting operations. He came to a small town in Georgia to meet with a former bank executive who was having second thoughts about participating in the operation. He was assassinated and brutally mutilated beyond recognition. Coincidently, Reacher, a former military officer, and basically a drifter, decided to stop off in the town to find information about a long time favorite blues player of his who had been murdered years ago. The excitement begins and flows non stop until Reacher solves the case of his brothers murder as well as brings down the whole criminal operation which had corrupted much of the town. Top Notch.
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Summary: The Stepford Town, the Good Old Boys, and the Loner
Comment: A body is found in the antiseptic Georgia town so police do the only thing logical -- arrest the man just off the bus in a rainstorm, there to find out about the blind black blues singer from 60 years ago.
There's the state prison, the rich young ruler, the Harvard-educated policeman, a couple of elderly barbers, and the new guy, who, incidentally, is a West-Point graduate recently of the MP's. And a woman cop.
Things unpeel onion-wise with questions about how the tiny town on the way to nowhere looks like a movie set, how the first and second men were killed, why an apparent suicide-by-hanging was let go at that, why the young guy had been going to work as usual, eighteen months after he'd been fired from his day job.
Break-neck action, slam-bang conclusion, and the only ending reasonably possible.
Right there with your Sam Spades and Lew Archer.
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Summary: Simple Solution
Comment: Problem: One ex-military policeman decides to deal with a gang of vicious murdering criminals.
Answer: Kill them all.
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Summary: An over-the-top mystery
Comment: Funny with too many bodies left around without apparent consequences. This story stretches credulity.
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Summary: Reacher at his best
Comment: Lee Child`s creation is brilliant for a series of books, the transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately arrested, if briefly, as a murder suspect. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that one of the victims is his brother, a brilliant U.S. Treasury agent. Reacher himself is no slouch; a former military policeman, he can dispatch villains with an astonishing array of weapons, including various parts of his body. In the company of a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop, Reacher soon unearths a conspiracy stretching through the little town and beyond. Blood flows freely, terrible threats are made and carried out, and body parts accumulate. First novelist Child, a former television writer, stretches coincidence outrageously in this would-be noir outing, whose hero is creepily amoral, violent, and generally unpleasant. As a published author myself I`m in awe of Child`s talent.
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