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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
List Price: $27.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  158 reviews
Sales Rank: 146
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0385340567
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ASIN: 0385340567
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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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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 Review of "Nothing to Lose" a Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child July 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan on Lee Child and think most of the Jack Reacher novels are great. This one, however, I didn't like as well as previous ones. Maybe I'm getting a little tired of Jack living like a bum.
 Thought it was as good as the others July 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Thought this one was probably among the top five or so of the Reacher books, all of which I have enjoyed. Utterly implausible, of course, but was anyone really looking for reality? I have said it before, these books are "24" within covers, and I love "24," too. I thought Reacher's relatively few statements on current politics, military, and war were utterly in character, not out of character. Not necessarily my own politics, by the way, but I am not a 6' 5" giant ex-military trained superman roaming the country with no ties whatsoever beating and killing, whenever it seems appropriate according to my own inner code. Do we all really think that Jack Bauer would not have an opinion about current politics? Are we all 100% confident that it would be "my country's elected politicians right or wrong"? Not exactly talking about folks that stayed in the system and worked their way up, which would have been far up indeed given just how talented each is. Does not seem credible to me to have characters that pay no mind to government and morality, but to make an exception for the Iraqi war, where they support the current elected officials without out question, right or wrong. My two cents, anyway. I think Lee Child writes a heck of a story.
 Unbelievably disappointing July 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been a devoted fan of Lee Child's since his first book, waiting each time with eager anticipation of a new release. I was so glad to get a copy of Nothing to Lose and set aside time for me and Jack Reacher to have our unique adventure together.
As others have noted, the book starts out with a fair premise -- classic pitting of good and evil. However, the further I got in the book, the more unsettled I became. I was not expecting a treatise of the Iraq war, one that varies greatly with my value system. I was unhappy that the storyline was sacrificed for a dogmatic political view that he hit over and over again. At 3:30am I finished the book, wondering if I will ever read another Lee Child book.
For a very loyal fan, that's saying a lot. I felt that he forgot that he has a band of loyal readers. He seemed to be writing for himself and not for us.
Wish I had the hours back I spent reading this book.
Nothing To Lose July 7, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Child takes a "Left" turn into politics, bashes the military, justifies AWOL for an 18 year old Marine who supposedly had two deployments and a third scheduled within two years (doesn't happen) and yet, in true fashion, bashes the rule of law and order in society. I don't mind the latter but the former (based on an untruth), plus an implausable story line makes this his worst book yet. I have read them all with considerable enjoyment, until this one.
 Dullsville July 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've read all the Reacher novels and grabbed this as soon as it came out. Alas, a letdown. I could hardly follow the plot, and worse, a tedious political correctness (absent in the earlier books, but beginning to rear its head in recent Reacher novels) really spoiled things. OK, G.W. Bush and friends are getting to be a drag, and no one is too happy with the war, and the Christian right can be obnoxious, but that ain't why I read escape literature. As well as all that, there is a kind of tired feeling to the book, as if the formula has gotten boring to the author, who's just going through the motions. Maybe it's time for Jack to settle down with one of his numerous loves, have a couple kids, and tend to lawn care.
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