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Die trying

by Lee Child

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1 year 2 mo after mustering out

'Do what you're supposed to do' ( )
ktoonen | Mar 23, 2009 |  
An excellent book in an excellent (so far) series. Child really knows how to grab your attention from the start and keep it throughout the whole book. The conspiracy theories were even believable as conspiracy theories. I actually think this one was better than his first, Killing Floor. ( )
miyurose | Dec 12, 2008 |  
This is my personal favourite of the Reacher books, but I've read and enjoyed all of 'em. ( )
mstores | Dec 2, 2008 |  
Reacher is growing on me. I like the guy. His adventures are a stretch, but hugely entertaining. Like one of those big, action adventure box-office smashes that makes no sense, but has great special effects and one-liners.

Once again, complete and utter happenstance puts Reacher in the thick of things. Signals are misread, motives assumed, mistakes made and he’s in for the long haul. His innate and dominant sense of right and wrong keeps him involved when he had opportunity to leave; he’s a hero and he can’t walk away from someone in distress. Plus we learn a bit more about his past and what we learn makes us like him more. I love Child’s decision to not give us the whole story, but instead to draw it out with small nuggets of info in each book. It keeps the readers engaged and interested in his character. Other authors would do well to learn this (I’m looking at you Jeff Lindsay).

This time we’ve got a bunch of amped-up segregationists hid out in (surprise!) Montana with lots of guns, money and crazy talk. They’re nuts, but well organized and deadly serious. It’s almost too delicious watching and waiting for Reacher to bring it all down and kick some serious ass. That being said, I do wish one particular bad guy got more of a drawn out awakening of his failure before he met his final end. Child pulled the punch when it came to it and it was my only disappointment in an otherwise excellent Reacher adventure. ( )
Bookmarque | Oct 21, 2008 |  
Usual high octane Jack Reacher which keeps you reading to the end, even though you know he survives, just a question of how and who with! This time he is kidnapped with an injured FBI agent who he was helping carry her cleaning. ( )
edwardsgt | Sep 18, 2008 |  
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0425206211, Paperback)

Television writer Lee Child's otherwise riveting first thriller, Killing Floor, was criticized by some reviewers because of an unconvincing coincidence at its center. Child addresses that problem in his second book--and thumbs his nose at those reviewers--by having his hero, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher, just happen to be walking by a Chicago dry cleaner when an attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson comes out carrying nine expensive outfits and a crutch to support her soccer-injured knee. As Holly stumbles, Reacher grabs her and her garments--which gets him kidnapped along with her by a trio of very determined badguys. "He had no problem with how he had gotten grabbed up in the first place," Child writes. "Just a freak of chance had put him alongside Holly Johnson at the exact time the snatch was going down. He was comfortable with that. He understood freak chances. Life was built out of freak chances, however much people would like to pretend otherwise." Lucky for Holly--whose father just happens to be an Army general and current head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thus making her a tempting target for a bunch of Montana-based extremists--Reacher still has all the skills and strengths associated with his former occupation. And Child still knows how to write scenes of violent action better than virtually anyone else around. --Dick Adler

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