Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ISBN: 0385340567
Label: Delacorte Press
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Studio: Delacorte Press

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.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Go Back to England !
Comment: What a terrible disappointment. I've read all the Jack Reacher novels and am so VERY glad I chose to borrow this last one, "Nothing To Lose", from the public library.

If the author wants to get political, enjoys criticism of his "host" nation, just go on back to jolly ?? old England....we don't need another parasite on our shores.

This book has radical political views supporting foreign nations & criticizes the U.S. It offends me, & I notice others feel the same.

To be fair, most of the Jack Reacher novels will keep a reader up nights until the book is finished. This book was difficult to keep reading, too much superfluous information, nothing much to want to continue reading.
Contrary to the title of this book, I believe Lee Child "lost" quite a bit this time; many of us see no reason to read his books again!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good, but not his best.
Comment: Well worth the read, but then I'm a die hard Child\Reacher fan. Kept my interest and had somw good twists and turns, but left me wanting just a bit more.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not the only one.
Comment: I am glad I am not the only one who did not enjoy this story.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: One Book too many
Comment: A total waste of a good tree, I hate to say it but I am afraid the Jack Reacher franchise has run out of steam. If you have never read a Reacher novel, do not start with this one - read the first ten and stop.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Reacher goes wobbly
Comment: One of the reasons I've always bought and read this series is that I enjoyed a main character with an unshakeable sense of honor and hardly any dithering. So it was disappointing when the author jumped on the tired old anti-war bandwagon. I thought at least he might hold it down to the usual "I hate this war but I honor the servicemen who fight in it," but this time Reacher really goes in the tank. "My country let me down, so I'm released from all personal honor, too." Who needs it? It's the last Reacher novel I'll buy or read.

I guess if more servicemen had felt this way, we wouldn't have won the war while Child wasn't watching.

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