World Famous Comics: Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
By: Lee Child Publisher: Delacorte Press Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Delacorte Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 416 Publication Date: June 03, 2008 Release Date: June 03, 2008
Product Description: 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.
I didn't finish it This book is unbelievable. I've read all of the Reacher novels. Lee Child has completely lost his way. First of all, the incredibly convoluted plot, the plodding pace, the ridiculousnous of the Town of Despair were challenges enough. But when he completely changes the Reacher character to insert his opposition to the war in Iraq--way over the top. Don't buy this book.
Tank makes Reacher look like a pussy This was the worst Reacher novel ever. If you like serial characters take a look at new author Conrad Jones `Soft Target novels, much better than this rubbish.
Major Disappointment After writing great books like Die Trying, One Shot and Bad Luck why you had to put Nothing to Lose out there is beyond my comprehension. Why is it bad? Let me count the ways. 1) The plot is convoluted, ridiculous, strained and uninteresting. 2) The details are forced. It is great that you tell us how Jack figures things out, but you filled page after page with meaningless minutia. 3)Character Assassination - in one fell swoop you made Reacher anti-army, anti-war, anti-church, a murderer, and a pacificist. I am surprised you left out him becoming a Vegan and a ballet star. 4)You forgot your audience. Reacher fans want the old Reacher. If this is the direction you are taking, one fan at least is through with the Lee Child gravy train. 5) Cardinal sin you committed is that you injected yourself into this book. You clearly want us out of Iraq which is okay but you co-opted Jack to put forth your views. You should have written a separate book with that agenda. Using Jack was unbelievable based upon the character you have developed over several books and at the very least, boring. I would predict that Jack Reacher fans are not as anti-military as you would like. I personally do not believe in the apocalypse but he should not have killed Thurman when he could have arrested him and posed no health risk to anyone. Now you have Reacher playing God which is as bad as Thurman playing god. 6) "Bad Writing-Big Trouble" - please don't go any further down this road. This book was so hard to read. Only my own rule to finish any book I begin to read kept me going. Thanks for all the others. Good Luck!
Go Back to England ! 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!
Good, but not his best. 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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