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Loading... Worth Dying Forby Lee Child
I like all the Jack Reacher novels I've read, so far. This one became a little draggy near the end. I was anxious for the bad guys to get caught. (  ) bcrowl399 | May 15, 2013 |  Ever been to an ice skating rink and thought there were so many skaters on the ice that you couldn't enjoy watching any of them, but you stayed anyway because you didn't have anywhere else to go, and besides, you know you can count on the Zamboni being fun to watch at the end? Reading this one, after the tightly written 61 hours, was sort of like that. (  ) BluesGal79 | Mar 31, 2013 | Small town Nebraska, where everyone knows everyone else, and everyone knows everyone else's business, too. Like most small towns, there's a ruling class. Unfortunately for them, the youngest has a penchant for wife-beating and Reacher just happens to stumble over it. Unfortunately for them, they decide to do something about him. Unfortunately for them, they have a secret they'll kill to protect. And unfortunately for them, they picked the wrong guy to mess with. Couldn't wait to find out how Reacher survived the surefire immolation that was supposed to have consumed him in 61 Hours. And then I couldn't wait to find out what was the heck was going on in rural Nebraska. (  ) SunnySD | Mar 1, 2013 | Lone wolf drifter Jack Reacher gets caught up in a local mess when he stops at a motel in a small, isolated Nebraska town. What starts with Reacher driving a doctor out to treat a battered wife with a nose-bleed soon escalates as Reacher finds out that the abusive husband is the scion of the Duncan clan, a local family which has the rest of the town under its thumb and has been effectively running a miniature dictatorship for decades. Everyone in the area depends on the Duncans to ship out their crops come harvest time, and the Duncans have been milking that power to the point that no one dares to speak or act against them. No one but Reacher, that is. Former military cop that he is, Reacher has the skills and the inclination to deal with crooks like the Duncans, and when representatives of the Duncans’ OTHER clients show up to find out what’s delaying their shipments, Reacher takes them on, too. Violent, fast-paced, and light on the moralizing, Worth Dying For is a movie-ready romp. Jack Reacher doesn’t overthink his do-gooding; he just does what needs to be done and if a lot of people get killed in the process, so be it. It’s always the bad guys who die, anyway. (  ) kmaziarz | Dec 6, 2012 | Not my favorite Reacher book. 1. It doesn't follow up on the previous book that left Reacher in a tenuous situation. [Oh... Except for one unremarkable off the cuff sentence.] 2. Reacher seems to be becoming a bit barbaric. He seems to be getting off on hurting people. Not like his behavior in earlier books where he hurt if he had to. I hope Child doesn't blow this series, I really liked most of the earlier books. ( ) EctopicBrain | Dec 4, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
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(retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:25:09 -0400)
In the corn country of Nebraska, ex-police officer Jack Reacher runs afoul of the local Duncan clan--and its criminal connections--when he investigates a decades-old, unsolved case of a missing child.
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