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Holistic Guidance - Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
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List Price: $27.00
Our Price: $17.82
Your Save: $ 9.18 ( 34% )
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Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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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
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Lee Child, meet Laura Ingraham
Comment: Lee Child, if you should somehow read this review, let me request you read a MUCH better book by Laura Ingraham, "Shut up and Sing". I humbly ask you to Shut up and WRITE!
Why do otherwise good writers insist on throwing their personal politics into what should be escapist adventure? Is it worth the risk of losing future customers/readers? I'm not sure if I'll read another of your books, but I am quite sure I will never pay full price for them again. Bargain bin material for sure.
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Summary: Many criticisms are fueled by poliltics, but not all
Comment: If the negative conclusions Reacher has made about Iraq are likely to steam you, skip the book. Otherwise, still a pretty good read. I have confidence in Lee Child.
As reviewer Brian Baker say, Reacher stories have been small stories. They have also not been so fantastical. The townspeople are cartoons. That being said, Reacher is still Reacher. I read avidly, the action was sufficient, and the essential small observations (why do hardware stores always put items out on the sidewalk? coffee mug shapes, etc.) are as tasty as ever.
Recommended, with the caveat.
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Summary: No longer a fan
Comment: I've read all of the previous Reacher books and have enjoyed them all. This was his not his best story line or writing. To add to the problems Child decides to force some political views. Which doesn't even fit. I have alwasy recomended Child and the Reacher series. I won't pick one up again and I'll be sure to speak ill of this book when I get a chance.
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Summary: Total waste of time
Comment: Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)This is undoubtedly one of the worst books I have ever read. The reason I gave it one star was because that was the lowest rating Amazon allowed. The only reason it held my attention was because the other books by Child have been so great. If this had been the first book of his I had read, I would have put it down within 100 pages. He kept plowing the same ground it seemed to me. The characters were shallow and not well developed. The plot was weak. It just didn't give me much to get excited about. I kept thinking, "this has got to get better," but it didn't. I hope this is a fluke, and Child's next effort will be back up to par with his previous works.
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Summary: spun off the rails. end of the series?
Comment: The previous book wasn't great, but I gave Child the benefit of the doubt. This book really was it fo rme. Lousy plot, silly situations, and a Reacher that was nothing like the previous books.
Read this only if you have a read need for disappointment.
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