NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller—a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown.There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of … showdown.
There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can’t let go.
The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late—and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world.
For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him.
For Reacher, that was also impossible.
Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write and only Jack Reacher could survive—a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss.
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There’s only one Jack Reacher.Lee Child has outdone himself with Worth Dying For .
I’ve been a long time Jack Reacher fan, but at times found the books not introspective enough; Reacher coming across two dimensional, and the action canned. I’d feel frustrated by Jack’s lack of growth/change as a therapist! And want to get inside his head more.
But in this novel, the barren setting of a flat, impoverished Nebraska county in the clutches of evil brothers who run a trucking company is masterfully explored and even the minor characters are vivid,
Jack’s thought and emotional processes are shown through spare, masterful prose and inference. A slow build in tension eventually reveals a dark secret worse than the drug shipping originally hinted at, and of course, the body count is satisfyingly high for fans of this genre.
I have modeled my Sophie Ang (Paradise Crime) character in part on Jack Reacher, but this book showed me that I still have a lot to learn on how to build creepy tension and show terrible things with just a few words. Kudos, Mr. Child!
anybody portraying Jack Reacher should appear as he does in the book, not some purty shrimp that likes to jump up and down on talk show couches ;-(
Worth Dying For is yet another wonderful Lee Child/Jack Reacher read. Reacher, heading to Virginia is traveling across the windswept prairie of Nebraska, in the winter. He’s minding his own business when he overhears an intoxicated DR complaining about his patients and in particular a woman he has to see who is the victim of a beating. Being the nice guy, Reacher offers to drive him. Form that point Reacher learns about a local family, the Duncan’s, who have a monopoly on the local trucking business which hauls crops at harvest time. You don’t comply with the Duncan’s your crop will rot in the field. Of course, Reacher ends up dealing with the Duncan’s in true Reacher style. A great read!
Travelling across the wilds of Nebraska, Jack Reacher walks into a community where one family controls everything, and no-one dares step out of line. But discovering a twenty-five-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of a young girl, Reacher can’t resist sticking his nose in…
This is book number 15 in the Jack Reacher series, and while the books can be read in any order, ‘Worth Dying For’ continues from the end of ‘61 Hours’. Although I enjoyed the last book, I was glad to find this one puts Reacher firmly back into his regular ass-kicking, bad-guy thumping ways. This one is a real page turner and I really couldn’t see how our hero was going to get himself out of it in one piece.
A thrilling read that kept me on edge all the way through.
Gritty, no holds barred action, tense situations, truly human and hilarious moments – they’re all in this book. There’s good, there’s evil, and there’s the gray in between. This book looks at all of it.
This is not a light book. It deals with terrible topics and terrible people. There’s a lot of suffering and misery. Child therefore is to be commended for his ability to interject humor without diminishing the tone or seriousness of the story. Some of his funniest moments involve the evilest characters.
And in the end, the good guys win, and the bad guys get what’s coming to them. Along the way, Reacher delivers some hilarious one liners. Thoroughly satisfying read.
I heard this on audiobook at the recommendation of a friend, and I will be listening to or reading more!
I really enjoy the Jack Reacher series
Jack Reacher is awesome.
This kind of action is what draws me in, the rest is a story well told.
Child’s Jack Reacher is always a good read. Tom Cruise is NOT the real Jack Reacher
I want to have Jack Reacher’s babies! All of Lee Child’s books are amazing. I hate that the movies they made from his books starred “little” black haired, Tom Cruise. Didn’t they read his books, Reacher was 6’4″ with dirty blond hair and fists like hams. Totally wrong actor to play the part. It made me mad. Absolutely great series of books to read though.
Great like all Reacher books
Another good Reacher.
Lee Child has created a superb character in Jack Reacher and each book seems to top the last one. You will be pleased to read these exciting and entertaining books. Do it!
I love all of Lee Childs books featuring Jack reacher
It’s a Reacher book – what can I say more?
Excellent book !
Superior author
Jack Reacher is an over-the-top character but Lee Child makes him work in a well developed story.
I loved this 15th storyline. I loved the action in this story. I loved Reacher’s character. I loved the ending. Awesome job Mr. Child.
Good but not his best