Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
| Author: Lee Child
Creator: Dick Hill
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
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Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
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Dimensions (in): 6 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0739365894
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780739365892
ASIN: 0739365894
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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 Good but not great July 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is good but not great as some of the past stories have been.
 Politics - A Non-Winner July 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book has two major faults. The first is that fiction writters should always avoid political hot button issues - they will anger an average half of their reading public. The author using his ex-army super hero as the messenger, roils against the war in Iraq, and promotes troops going AWOL and hiding in Canada. This stirs very unpleasant memories as well as
slighting our current all-volunter force.
The second fault of this author is his venier-thin knowledge of the Army. He should either hire an expert advisor or stay away from "explaining" military culture and operations.
As rarely happens, I chose not to finish the book.
Walt Mehl
Reading Regrets July 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had looked forward to this new novel & bought it when it first appeared. It's so boring, I'm struggling to finish it.
Jack Reacher and, indeed, Lee Child, seem to have abandoned interest. WHat a boring, hackneyed plot. FOrget this & find an earlier one with a spark of life.
 Good Story July 21, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what book some of the other folks read, but it couldn't have been the same one I did. This was a great Reacher story. Absolutely fine escapist summer reading. It doesn't get a whole lot better.
Good thing Lee Child had Nothing To Lose when he wrote this instalment! July 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not sure what drove Child to publish this book, as is, other than the annual pressure that series' authors get from their publishers to grind out a book a year.
It was a great idea to have his action series hero, Jack Reacher return to loner status for this, his 12th outing. Child's won so many fans, he routinely appears in best seller lists with his vigilante hero.
I just put "Nothing to Lose", the 12th book down, and went and washed my mouth out with Listerine. Bad taste. I had a hard time slugging past the chapters in the mid-60's... one of Child's affectations is that he writes short, terse, page and a half chapters, and many of them. This time, I wish he would have found a way to quit, halfway through.
Child starts out on a promising note with Jack Reacher, Child's military loner, arriving in a desolate part of part of Colorado, where the small towns are named "Hope" and "Despair". He just wants a cup of coffee. Akin to many of the earlier books, sometimes Reacher's mere foreboding presence is enough to get him into trouble. He's arrested for vagrancy and soon learns that he's fallen into "a company town"... an element that has been used so successfully for hidden evil by so many authors (Stepford Wives being a great trailblazer!)
There's a recycling operation controlled by a "Mr. Thurman" who surrounds himself with a gang of thugs, a surefire way to get Jack sniffing the ground. Enlisted by the female law enforcer of neighboring Hope, (yes, she's the love interest, as well)Reacher begins to bring Thurman's forces down. The villains in this book are a little pathetic, and there's a lot of repetitious trotting back and forth to Despair before Reacher begins to defuse the situation.
In addition to some thin characterization, and no feel of real threat or danger, the main problem is that the story is derailed by multiple Lee Child political speeches. Now, since the tide of American feelings turned against Dubya and the war, there have been many, many expressions of political views in film, in song, on TV and in fiction.
However, it is truly out of character, since Child uses Reacher to espouse his own (Child's) political views. Reacher is a consummate military man, who has echoed some ironic thoughts about the military over the years... but to suddenly spew forth in an anti-war staccato -- unforgiveable.
It's boring, it's inconsistent, it's a Lee Child rant, not a Jack Reacher rant. What was a 4 star Reacher book, on the basis of plot and action, becomes a 3 star entry, on the basis of an author getting carried away.
Series veterans may want to read it, but honestly, I wish I had skipped the installment.
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