Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-25
ISBN: 0515141429
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Jove
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- ISBN13: 9780515141429
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
Book Review: Classic Child, Vintage Reacher
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a big Lee Child fan, but if you're like me, following a few recent outings ranging from the mediocre ("Bad Luck and Trouble") to the abysmal ("Nothing to Lose"), you may be asking: "Is Child losing his edge, or have my standards changed that much?" So to find out, I went back and re-read Child's first Jack Reacher carnival of violence, "Killing Floor", originally published in 1997. My conclusion: it is Child who has changed: "Killing Floor", even when read the second time, is an adrenaline-charged escapist romp of mayhem balanced with suspense and mystery, a larger-than-life drama that while wholly unbelievable is nonetheless addictive and enjoyable.
With homage due to David Morrell's contemporary classic "First Blood", Jack Reacher, former Army MP Major and current drifter, is arrested over a cup of coffee while passing through backwater Margrave, Georgia. Triggering unavoidable images of Stallone's Rambo, Reacher is accused of murder, and hauled in by the local sheriff's deputies on way to the state penitentiary's holding cells for the weekend. His incarceration is brief but hardly uneventful, and soon Reacher finds real motivation to stick around and help solve the murder for which he was originally charged.
Reacher's stoic loaner is the classic American icon - conjuring images from the Marlborough Man to Batman to the adventurous nomads who rode the rails without strings or responsibilities. With Rambo's command of martial arts and weaponry of all kinds and Sherlock Holmes-class power of deductive reasoning, Reacher thinks and slugs and gouges and shoots his way to resolution and redemption. Child sets his story and his hero well above the fray with lean and crisp prose, embellished but not unencumbered by liberal doses on fact and trivia on wide ranges of topics, Child's research adding authenticity and credibility to a tale of greed and corruption the would otherwise be tired fare.
In short, if you don't think too hard about coincidence and implausibility, "Killing Floor" is the literary equivalent of eye candy - a boisterous, no-holds-barred thriller that stands alone in pop crime fiction. Leads one to wonder if Lee Child shouldn't go back and get reacquainted with the original Jack Reacher as well.
Summary of Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular Jack Reacher series. It presents Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs, the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.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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