Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0425206246
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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- ISBN13: 9780425206249
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Book Reviews of Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
Book Review: It's Hot In Reacher's World
Summary: 5 Stars
It is hot in Texas. Very hot.
Echo Burning is another Jack Reacher novel, from Lee Child, which opens with him looking to get a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, to avoid some unpleasantness with the police. He isn't looking for a ride long when a woman in a Cadillac picks him up. This wasn't a random act of kindness - she has an ulterior motive for stopping. On the way to Echo, Texas, she tells him a story of abuse, tax evasion, and racists. And she needs some help dealing with her problem. A permanent solution.
Reacher finds himself in another situation that requires his special skills. He isn't the type of person that will kill in cold blood, but he does agree to help the woman, Carmen Greer. He is hired as a ranch hand, and starts to investigate Carmen's allegations concerning her husband, Sloop, and the Greer family. Carmen is under pressure to resolve her problems before Sloop is released from prison. She had a major role in landing her husband in jail, and she figures that he will be looking for revenge. Shortly after getting out, Sloop ends up dead, and it looks like Carmen killed him in self defense. To Reacher, there is more to what is going on than Carmen is telling him.
This is another excellent Reacher novel. He is relentless in his pursuit of the truth, and it brings out some unsavory characters to stop him. Even though the evidence points to Carmen killing her husband, Reacher isn't happy with the results. There seems to be something wrong in Echo and Reacher isn't one to leave until he is satisfied. I have read enough of the Reacher novels to know that everything isn't quite what it appears, but this novel really surprised me.
Another recommended read from Lee Child.
Summary of Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She's got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic.
Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI--in fact, Reacher's even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a bad character think twice about tangling with him. And he's spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to operate in the gray zone if that's what it takes to save the fair maiden, punish the bad guys, and right any other wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings. Echo Burning is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who's so concerned about commitment to anything--a woman, possessions, a permanent address--that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he's the kind of justice-seeking guy you'd want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can't get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your old man.
Reacher's sympathetic, but he's not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into beautiful Carmen Greer's orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the husband who's about to be released from jail and, according to Carmen, who's about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that's owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family, which despises Carmen because she's Mexican and tolerates her only because she's Sloop Greer's wife and the mother of his child. The expected bloodshed ensues, but it's Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher's convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after other evidence comes to light that suggests there's more--and less--to her unhappy tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it's your first encounter with Child's work, be sure to check out his backlist--Running Blind, Tripwire, etc. --Jane Adams
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