Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-06-03
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Book Reviews of Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12)
Book Review: Okay, but very left wing
Summary: 3 Stars
I've always been drawn to the Rambo-type story line: Man against corrupt town. So I dove into this book with gusto. Unlike some other readers, it did manage to hold my interest fairly well. I didn't mind the repeated trips into Despair. However, it was disappointing to see Child's climb atop a soapbox. Okay, so he's against the war in Iraq. It's very sad we've lost some of our guys there, but it is beyond doubt that the international scene of today is far more complex than during the days when the U.S. could ignore most military uprisings or terrorist hotbeds, knowing they would not dare attack on our soil. But my biggest gripe with Child is his terrible, hackneyed stereotype of Christians. That's something even Hollywood has partially abandoned for inaccuracy. Sure, there are still some crazy, even dangerous, cults out there who claim they're teaching the Bible, but Child doesn't differentiate between those and the traditional Church that does far more good in society than most are aware of. Child is such a fine writer this so-so offering won't hurt him in the long run.
Summary of Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12)
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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