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 …
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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In Nothing To Lose, Jack Reacher has just left the town of Hope, Colorado, and heads twelve miles down the road to the town of Despair, Colorado. Minding his own business he attempts to order a cup of coffee in a restaurant. No one will take his order and no one will talk to him. The next thing you know Reacher has been taken to jail and charged with vagrancy. It turns out that the town of Despair is a company town, run by one individual and he’s up to no good. Reacher’s about to set him straight. This was a decent enough read although what I can only assume were Lee Child’s political views came through loud and clear with absolutely no benefit to the tale. For that reason, I rated this book four stars instead of five. Child’s views, some of which I agree with, added nothing to this work and detracted from what could have been a five-star book.
Just finished this book … for the second time. It’s predictable. Reacher is gonna kick some ass, get laid (eventually), and then he’s gonna save the day. But I don’t care how predictable it is, this guy (Child) sure knows how to write a book!
I work at home and I gotta stay away from his books. If I don’t, if I weaken and pick one up, then that’s it for 24 hours. I stop everything until I see how Reacher is gonna do it this time.
Always love Jack Reacher novels. Lee Child has this character down pat-Jack is an original.
Every Reacher book is worth it up to the last one, which was written primarily by Lincoln Child, Lees Brother. This one is pure Lee Child and was excellent.
You can’t beat a Lee Child novel
Lee Child never fails to deliver non stop action and excitement.
The beginning had my attention. After that this storyline became slow & boring. This story’s action was too far apart.
You can’t go wrong with Reacher
Not my favorite of this series.
Like all Jack Reacher books this one keeps your interest. I have read all the series so far and have yet to find one I did not enjoy reading.
What can anyone say. Its Lee Child. And Jack Reacher. Practically iconic at this point. Well worth a read. The author paints a clear picture of Reachers determination to right the wrongs, and the bad guys are gonna get hurt. In the end, the good guy has gotten both the girl, and bested all the bad ones. Loved every page.
Child’s several Reacher novels are all action-packed adult superman stories. Perhaps because of this the reader is willing to suspend logic and go along with the unlikely narrative that Reacher has neither driver’s license, credit card, nor duffle, and further, has been spent several years hitch-hiking from one bloodily violent crisis to the next. The fascination, of course, is that he is a modern knight-errant, unable to resist rescuing damsels – anyone, in fact – in distress, and setting right whatever he sees is wrong. Reading a Reacher novel is a several hours excursion into testosterone-soaked improbability – but still a pleasure.
Love the Jack Reachrr books. Read most of them.
Jack Reacher books are always on my wish list. He is such an anti-hero hero. Lee Child has created an intriguing character and put him in tense and exciting circumstances.
Good solid read.
Love the reacher character!
Typical Lee Child book with Jack Reacher, one of my favorite characters in books.
LOVE Jack Reacher stories. Lee Child is brilliant.
WHAT’S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT JACK REACHER
Typical Jack Reacher story!!! Loved it!!