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Whistle Stopper - Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)
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Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ISBN: 0385340567
Label: Delacorte Press
Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Studio: Delacorte Press
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Summary: Politics and Reacher don't mix
Comment: I would have given the book 4 or 5 stars, but the political overtones are not appreciated.
The storyline is solid and typical to earlier Reacher novels. He stumbles into a situation and has to remedy a wrong caused by bullies of the innocent. In this case it revolves around the town of Despair, Colorado, where he is unwelcomed and tries to understand the mysteries surrounding the town and its secrets (while of course leaving many to have to seek medical attention).
Where the book (and Reacher) go askew is when Reacher starts to develop political opinions. Anti army, anti Whitehouse, anti VA. A little bit of the author's political views being projected? A word of advice to the author. People who would enjoy this series are not the ones who would share his political views. Unless Lee Child is aspiring to be a columnist for the New York Times, he should cut it out and let Reacher remain politically agnostic.
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Summary: "Nothing to Lose" Loses Its Grip on Me
Comment: Jack Reacher (or Lee Child) has kept me company much of the past two summers, catching up on all 11 books, and I eagerly awaited "Nothing to Lose." This is my first real disappointment in the series for a number of reasons.
That recycling plant and the Despair populace were just too unbelievable. Are they born-again bombers? A lynch mob? Robots? For sure they were all stupid since the entire town couldn't hunt down Reacher (who was, to his credit, apparently driving an invisible black police car) and finish him off. Is it be possible a town like that could even exist in this century with one omnipotent master, a nearby military MP base, huge amounts of truck traffic, yet one two-lane road leading to Hope?
How many men can Reacher alone beat up in one fight? The second time he came into Despair, you'd think one of the guys would have just pulled a revolver, capped ol' Jack and hauled him into the desert. Sure that would end the series, a terrible thing to think about, but Reacher keeps putting himself in weird dire situations that have become pretty far-fetched.
Also, I'd like to think that Reacher would not have become a lover to a married woman, even given the situation. Friends and confidantes, yes, but I thought Reacher had more sense.
I also agree with an earlier reviewer about not needing to read Reacher's views on the current state of the military. I don't know many ex-military who would criticize like Reacher (or Child) did. I read for escape, not lectures.
Still and all, it was a Reacher book. Just not near the best in a series where the bar of good writing/reading has been set higher than most.
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Summary: Good but not great
Comment: This book is good but not great as some of the past stories have been.
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Summary: Politics - A Non-Winner
Comment: The book has two major faults. The first is that fiction writters should always avoid political hot button issues - they will anger an average half of their reading public. The author using his ex-army super hero as the messenger, roils against the war in Iraq, and promotes troops going AWOL and hiding in Canada. This stirs very unpleasant memories as well as
slighting our current all-volunter force.
The second fault of this author is his venier-thin knowledge of the Army. He should either hire an expert advisor or stay away from "explaining" military culture and operations.
As rarely happens, I chose not to finish the book.
Walt Mehl
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Summary: Reading Regrets
Comment: I had looked forward to this new novel & bought it when it first appeared. It's so boring, I'm struggling to finish it.
Jack Reacher and, indeed, Lee Child, seem to have abandoned interest. WHat a boring, hackneyed plot. FOrget this & find an earlier one with a spark of life.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 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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