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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
| Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  221 reviews
Sales Rank: 584
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0385340567
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ASIN: 0385340567
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Try again soon Lee... August 6, 2008
Previous reviews have said it all so I won't repeat it. I am a huge fan of Jack Reacher novels and I devoured this latest installment eagerly and was, like many others, disappointed. I will await Mr. Child's next effort impatiently and hope he returns to his previous successful formula.
I remain a loyal fan (for now)
 Disappointing.. What happened? August 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was disappointing on many levels.
I hope Child can regroup from this poor effort.
 Disappointed.... August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found the antagonist rather bland and this book not nearly as exciting as his previous novels. I am also getting put off with Mr. Child instilling his obvious far left political views onto an otherwise strong character. First his "oh the poor illegal alien" shtik in "Echo Burning", now it's the 'religious fanatics' and going AWOL is fine because Iraq is an unjust war crap. I'll wait for a few reviews before picking up his next Jack Reacher novel just to be sure he doesn't turn poor Jack into a far left pansy...
 Lee Child does it again! August 4, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Once again, Lee Child has put his character, Jack Reacher, in a situation that he just could not leave alone, setting him up for adventure and mayhem from start to finish. Never one to tolerate any type of unfair treatment of himself or others, Reacher will not be swayed from finding out why he is so vigorously evicted from a town where, had he been left alone, he would have simply passed through on his habitual treck to nowhere. When dead bodies begin to appear, and his life is threatened, Reacher is determined to find out what it is that makes strangers so unwelcome in this tiny outpost of a town in the "quiet" midwest. When a military facility is found to be close by, his interest is further piqued, and, determined as he is, Reacher digs in until he uncovers the usual greed and self-serving motivation for a potentially lethal situation. One of the more unusual Reacher novels, Nothing To Lose, nonetheless had my attention as soon as the local constabulary had Reacher's, and this was one I did NOT figure out, until the very end. Thanks, Lee, for another great read! As your favorite fellow John D. MacDonald fan, I am looking forward to another 9 Reacher novels!
Sad disappointment August 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow, I have read all the Jack Reacher series and loved them... except this one.
I read these books to relax and get away. I don't need to be talked down to how
poorly our country treats vets.
Perhaps Child should turn off the BBC and write again.
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