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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) | 
| Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 185912
Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 640
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0739327909
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780739327906
ASIN: 0739327909
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 From J. Kaye's Book Blog July 19, 2008
I'm a Jack Reacher fan - love, love this character. I also love Indiana Jones. But in the last movie, it left me with the same feeling as I had after I read this book. It left me with questions to ponder, such as is the guy getting too old? Isn't it time for a new character?
NOTHING TO LOSE didn't knock my socks off as did the previous Reacher books. I'll keep my fingers crossed though and wait for the next in this series. Maybe I'll have the answer to my pondering questions then.
 Big Disappointment July 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read every one of Lee Child's books for many years, and have always been a huge loyal fan. I just threw this book away without finishing it. This book seemed to be very anti-Christian, and anti-government/military. His last book before this had a very short section on the folly of religion, and this book has so much of it that I finally just gave up. I hope his next book goes back to the Jack Reacher of old.
"Nothing to Lose" except time wasted reading this one. July 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lee Child/Jack Reacher novels are "Gotta get the hardback today" books for me. His previous efforts range from very good to great. His plots/locales have varied, but his formula for a page-turning thriller has not. "Nothing to Lose" not only lacked the usual page-turner formula, but was actually a chore to finish. This novel has to be compared to Child's previous efforts to appreciate it's failings.
"The Hook"- Child can set the hook like no other author. The action starts hard and heavy, and is mysterious enough to keep the reader engaged. "Nothing to Lose" had no hook. By page 45, I was still waiting for the hook to get me interested. Never happened.
"The Bad Guys"- Child always has fascinating and diabolical bad guys, often with a clever plot twist to throw reader off of who's good-who's bad. But by the end of the novels, I can't wait for Jack to take care of these guys as he always does. The End Times preacher was a [yawn] low-grade baddie who [yawn] only truly gets defined as a baddie after he's been blown up [yawn].
"The Roller Coaster"- Every Reacher book to date has hit a point where I cannot put it down until it is finished. I call this the "top of the roller coaster"- usually about 100 pages from the end. 3 AM, have to be up at 7AM- too bad. Have to finish the Reacher book. In Nothing to Lose, 75 pages from the end, I just lost interest, and put it down for three days. I forced myself to finish it.
"Politics"- If Lee Child is actually interested in continued sales of his novels, he might be wise to realize several points. Jack Reacher probably doesn't have mass appeal for left-wingers, peaceniks, or academic liberals. Also, the Jack Reacher character is almost by definition apolitical. "Nothing to Lose" is basically a platform for Child to espouse his anti-Iraq War, anti-administration views and twist them into a discoherent plot.
"Memorability"- Within one hour of finishing most Reacher novels, I could recite a fairly tight outline of the main story lines. It's now an hour since I finished Nothing to Lose, and realize I can't do it. Let me try. Jack wanders back and forth from Despair to Hope. Beats up some guys who weren't really bad, but pissed him off. Goes back and forth a few more times and occasionally beats up some more guys. Finds out the town is weird with something going on. Gov't/current administration coverup of gross failures in Iraq exposed. Pitiful brain injured Iraq vet demonstrated for all to see. Pipeline for military deserters desperate to escape duty in Iraq and head to Canada left unexposed. Gets the babe. Blows up the dirty bomb which really wasn't that dirty. The end. Hmmmm.
Technical Accuracy- OK. It's just a story. A few loose ends are inevitable and forgivable. Truth can be stretched for novels sake. Nothing to Lose took these liberties to the point of constant distraction. Acute radiation sickness from depleted uranium??? Come on. Massive Abrams battle tank losses covered up by the gov't??? Come on. His description of a chronic brain-injured patient was so off base it was distracting. (If Child would like an MD/surgeon to proof his next book, I volunteer).
In summary, No Hook, Bland Bad Guys, an 8 ft. roller coaster, politically polluted, unmemorable, and technically inaccurate. Worst Reacher book of all times. I think I'll wait for the paperback when "Gone Tomorrow" comes out.
 A nice addition July 17, 2008
I have read all the books in the Reacher saga and frankly they are becoming very predictable. I liked the latest one but was not knocked down and waiting for the next. Mr Child, in my humble opinion, Jack Reacher needs to get on with his life. I mean saving us from various local bag men is good but Reacher would be under constant surveillance by the FBI, Homeland Security and the CIA by now. He has done enough to attract way too much attention for an itinerant drifter.
I will look for the next book---but hope for new adventures.
Not up to par July 16, 2008
Like many of the others, I am a great fan of Lee Child. I have read all of his books and would now automatically buy his latest novel. Nothing to Lose left me disappointed. There was not much in the way of action and at the end of the line, the plot was not that interesting. This is the first Child novel in which I was not interested about the resolution. What a shame.
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