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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.
benl2k: I find the character of Jack Reacher to be very similar to the character Pilgrim in Run. Also, Run is written in the same fast-paced action packed style as the Jack Reacher novels.
(2010) Reacher is let out in the middle of nowhere Nebraska where a notorious family has everybody in the area afraid of them and unable to get law enforcement to help them. Reacher eventually wipes out the entire family after discovering that they have been running a human trafficing operation and using pre-teen girls for their pleasure. Vigilante justice to the extreme. KIRKUS REVIEWWhatever business Jack Reacher has in Virginia will have to wait till the world's most distractible soldier of fortune cleans up the mess he's stumbled into amid the cornfields of the Midwest.After hitchhiking as far as Nebraska, Reacher minds his own business precisely long enough for the sozzled doctor sharing a hotel bar with him to get a call from a patient with a nosebleed. Forget about ignoring her, Reacher tells the startled medico. If she's had nosebleeds recently, she may well be taking aspirin that's thinned her blood and made it likely that she'll keep on bleeding. Better to have Reacher drive him to Eleanor Duncan's house so that he can see whether her husband's been beating her. In the end, Eleanor's nosebleed turns out to be inconsequential¥it's not even Seth Duncan who's beaten her this timeÂ¥but his perverse, aggressive, utterly characteristic stint as the good Samaritan pulls Reacher into the orbit of Seth's father Jacob and Seth's uncles Jasper and Jonas. Because they're a tight-knit family, they don't plan to take Reacher's interference lying down. And because they're engaged in criminal enterprise, their clients, already putting pressure on them for a mysteriously delayed delivery coming down from Canada, plan to go after this interloper themselves. In a flash, the ex-Army cop is the subject of a manhunt by the Duncans' thugs, their Italian client's thugs, the Italian's Lebanese client's thugs and the Lebanese's Iranian clients' thugs. With so many strong-arm types flooding the prairie, there are plenty of opportunities for violence, treachery and double-crossingÂ¥think of a Nebraska remake of A Fistful of Dollars with an international castÂ¥and Child (61 Hours, 2010, etc.) doesn't miss a single one. By the time he's finally shaken the dust from his feet, Reacher will have plumbed the depths of a monstrous unsolved crime, cleaned up the county and killed a lot of mostly nameless guys who really deserved it.It's hard to imagine a single white-collar wage slave who won't thrill to this latest Robin Hood fantasy of righteous vengeance.Pub Date: Oct. 19th, 2010ISBN: 978-0-385-34431-9Page count: 400ppPublisher: DelacorteReview Posted Online: Sept. 13th, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1st, 2010
I was stuck without a book at a bach and the bookshelf had 40 indistinguishable Lee Child novels. I selected one with my eyes closed. It was exactly what I expected. The entire experience was like buying and drinking two litres of homogenised milk. ( )
We already know I love me some Jack Reacher. Hate that I read this one and a few others out of order, but the good thing about the series is that you can, and for the most part, you don't miss anything. A little out of character for Reacher here in parts, but it made for some interesting plot movements. Lee Child is a hell of a writer, but when you are in double digits of a series, you know that already, or else you stopped reading the series a long time ago. I press on! ( )
Imperdibile, non c’è che dire, un’altra avventura del mitico Reacher che stavolta si trova coinvolto in una storia terribile che si protrae da anni. Avvincente, emozionante e, come sempre, una coinvolgente lettura assolutamente irrinunciabile. ( )
Eldridge Tyler was driving a long straight two-lane road in Nebraska when his cell phone rang.
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She used the first ramp, west toward Denver and Salt Lake City, and he walked under the bridge and set up on the eastbound ramp, one foot on the shoulder and one in the traffic lane, and he stuck out his thumb and smiled and tried to look friendly.
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.
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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.
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