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Nothing to Lose: A Jack Reacher Novel

Author:
Lee Child
Read by:
Dick Hill

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129
Narrator
23
Release Date
June 3, 2008
Duration
6 hours 29 minutes
Summary
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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Brenda S.

A different Jack Reacher. I felt uncomfortable with him being forceful with the female protagonist. He came across as a bully and his character certainly lost some respect in my eyes. Not my favourite by far. A let down after Bad Luck and Trouble.

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roger

This my first Lee Child book, and despite my opinion of this one, I'll give him another shot. I like Reacher as a character; he reminds me of Spencer. But Child is not as economical as Robert B. Parker, nor as disciplined as a writer. I won't think of Child as a lazy writer until I listen to another. But this one, Nothing to Lose, has far to many lose ends, and so much essential to the narrative is simply not credible. The ending and the events surrounding it are just so far fetched as to be ridiculous. After a very promising beginning, Child is failed by his editor, allowing him to drift on and on and extend sequences that are in need of cutting. Many questions raised by the narrative are left unanswered, like how are Despair's townspeople involved in either of the two plot lines? Kind of important. Is the purpose of this book to memorialize Reacher or to tell a plausible story. The latter can certainly be achieved without harming Reacher's stature in any way.

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Avid Reader/Listener

This is a pretty good Reacher story. I wish that it were not abridged as Dick Hill is such a very good narrator/reader.

Nothing to Lose: A Jack Reacher Novel

Nothing to Lose: A Jack Reacher Novel

Author: Lee Child
Read by: Dick Hill
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