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Lee Child (Author)
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Publication Date: 9 April 2009 | Series: Jack Reacher (Book 12)

Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.

From Hope to Despair.

Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee.What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line.

But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape.

No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity.

What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide?

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  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam; Paperback Edition, First Printing edition (9 April 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553824414
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553824414
  • Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 3.4 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (176 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A cert to be a number one bestseller... A version of western, of course: the drifter who comes to town, sorts out the bad guys, and moves on... He makes what he does seem simple. If it is, though, it's strange that nobody else has managed it so well" (David Sexton Evening Standard )

"Follows in the great Philip Marlowe pulp tradition, nuanced with a dash of Rambo and Bruce Willis... Reacher is a moody, modern outsider figure, one of the great antiheroes... a liberal intellectual with machismo, and arms the size of Popeye's" (Independent )

"Classic Child... brilliantly paced... his tough-but-fair creation, Jack Reacher, both a man's man and a ladies' man, proves once again that he's also his own man. And no one is going to get in his way" (Mirror 20080320)

"Slots a series of bone-crunching brawls into a surprisingly sinuous and zeitgeisty plot... delivers emotional depth, and Reacher's bare-knuckle sleuthing certainly keeps the adrenalin up" (Financial Times )

"A high-testosterone adventure with a thoughtful nod to what is going on in Iraq... a page turner. Thrilling" (Observer )

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100 of 105 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Reacher said: "I'm not looking for a search warrant. I'm waiting for dark." 2 April 2008
By Julia Flyte TOP 100 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover
After having Reacher team up with his former army colleagues in "Bad Luck and Trouble", Lee Child has gone back to Reacher's loner roots. "Nothing to Lose" opens with Reacher literally walking into the small town of Despair, Colorado, where he's promptly arrested and run out of town. What are the secrets that the residents of Despair are so desperate to keep hidden? Reacher is equally determined to find out...

The pace of this book is slower than most of the others that Lee Child has written and my feeling is that perhaps it related to a departure from formula. Usually Reacher encounters someone - a former colleague, an attractive woman, a man with a missing wife - with a problem and that creates the momentum. In this book, he simply stumbles on behaviour that he finds odd, and therefore starts investigating. Along the way he teams up with a local policewoman who also provides the obligatory romantic sub-plot. The book keeps you guessing with lots of sub-plots and little mysteries along the way (some of which turn out to be red herrings, but I suppose that adds to the intrigue).

"Nothing to Lose" delivered my much-anticipated "Reacher fix", but it's not Lee Child's best. Although it's a stand-alone novel, I wouldn't recommend starting here if you haven't read any other Lee Child books: you won't get what the fuss is about. I wasn't as absorbed by this one as I have been by the others in the series. The middle section dragged a little, but having said that it's still an easy read that goes down fast and keeps you up turning pages into the night. Probably if it had been another author this would have rated 3 stars for me, but I'm a shameless Reacher fan, so I'm rating it 4 stars.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Reacher still good but something is missing 3 April 2008
By Zigurdurs
Format:Hardcover
I read all the Reacher books and found them to be entertaining in a testosterone kind of way. You like to feel the rush of righteous punishment when Reacher mercilessly deals out death or beatings in his competent way.
This book, however, feels a bit stretched and by the numbers.
The scenery is somehow more claustrophobic and there is not the same sense of peril. The bad guys seem staggeringly clumsy and Reacher seems to be running circles (literally) around them. Kudos to Reacher but it doesn't make for a very compelling book.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars ROUTINE REACHER 7 July 2008
By 100wordreviewer
Format:Hardcover
I'm a big fan of Lee Child and his rogue, justice-dealing loner, Reacher. In "Nothing to Lose", Reacher must solve the mystery of a remote town, Despair, whose people seem unaccountably keen to see the back of him. This makes the plot reminiscent of the first Jack Reacher, "Killing Floor". Indeed, the whole plot is uncomfortably formulaic and reminiscent of earlier Lee Child thrillers, from Reacher shacking up with an interesting loner female to his final assault on a stronghold defended by some tough guys. I hoped desperately for some twists or intriguing characters, but in vain. Indeed, the plot conceit of having two neighbouring towns entitled "Hope" (decent place) and "Despair" (dump) was symptomatic of what feels like the author's need to let a second pair of eyes edit this down to something tighter and better (see eg "Tripwire" or "Echo Burning"). I'd have liked to another outing for Reacher's best female sidekick, the enigmatic Neagly, too (see "Without Fail" and "Bad Luck and Trouble"). And Reacher's terrific, ironic sense of humour, as seen in "The Enemy" seems to have deserted him.

So why 4 stars? Well, it's still a decent read, and moves along briskly enough. But c'mon Lee Child, you can do better than this!

For: an OK read. Against: slow-moving and formulaic in places.
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5.0 out of 5 stars always a good read
As always Lee Child writing grips you with his story line. However do find it better to read the jack Reacher series in order as they make more sense.
Published 7 hours ago by L J Jenkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great Reacher book
Just love the Jack Reacher books. Fast moving with clever twists. Very hard to put down. Already into the next.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Everything to lose
Found this book so repetitive it was boring. Every few pages we seemed to be driving between Hope and Despair one way or another. It got tedious. Read more
Published 21 hours ago by david easton
5.0 out of 5 stars Once again another great read.
Keep 'em coming Lee........love the plots, this guy must have experiences like a cat........nine lives of experiences it would appear
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5.0 out of 5 stars Reacher is the man!
Go along for the ride, you won,t regret it-action all the way. ONE MAN WRECKING BALL WITH A HEART FANTASTIC
Published 5 days ago by Plum PLUM
4.0 out of 5 stars Reacher still going strong
Well here we have another book about Jack Reacher the ladies man who irons his clothes by putting them under his matress and his idea of laundry is throwing out perfectly good... Read more
Published 5 days ago by sparks
5.0 out of 5 stars good as ever
engrosing as all his books look foreward to next publication.problem is to find time,or put book down once you start it
Published 6 days ago by allwood
1.0 out of 5 stars More to lose if you read it!
Such a disappointment. I am reading all the Reacher series in order and until now have really enjoyed them. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Susan O
5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing to lose [ Jack Reacher ]
Marvellous book. Exactly as it said on the advert. In excellent condition. Haven't read it yet but if the book is up to thusual standard I will enjoy. Read more
Published 10 days ago by Colin Laws
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
As usual Lee Childs has written yet another amazing Jack Reacher story...all I can say is keep them coming as love reading them
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