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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  238 reviews
Sales Rank: 1130
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0385340567
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ASIN: 0385340567
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
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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 No longer a fan August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've read all of the previous Reacher books and have enjoyed them all. This was his not his best story line or writing. To add to the problems Child decides to force some political views. Which doesn't even fit. I have alwasy recomended Child and the Reacher series. I won't pick one up again and I'll be sure to speak ill of this book when I get a chance.
Total waste of time August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)This is undoubtedly one of the worst books I have ever read. The reason I gave it one star was because that was the lowest rating Amazon allowed. The only reason it held my attention was because the other books by Child have been so great. If this had been the first book of his I had read, I would have put it down within 100 pages. He kept plowing the same ground it seemed to me. The characters were shallow and not well developed. The plot was weak. It just didn't give me much to get excited about. I kept thinking, "this has got to get better," but it didn't. I hope this is a fluke, and Child's next effort will be back up to par with his previous works.
spun off the rails. end of the series? August 17, 2008
The previous book wasn't great, but I gave Child the benefit of the doubt. This book really was it fo rme. Lousy plot, silly situations, and a Reacher that was nothing like the previous books.
Read this only if you have a read need for disappointment.
 Ignore the haters August 15, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When it comes down to it, Nothing to Lose is not the greatest Jack Reacher novel Lee Child has written. However, it certainly isn't bad. I was a bit turned off when I got my copy in the mail and checked the Amazon reviews to see the slew of 1-star reviews that Child has gotten this time around. However, the negative reviews are ridiculous. I was taken completely by surprise at the sheer number of Reacher fans that really identified with his "politics" and that this novel totally broke that illusion for them. Where have we EVER gotten a glimpse of Reacher's political views? Child leaves so much of Reacher's character to the imagination, that most people read "ex-military police" and see "will do anything for his country no matter the cost." It is frustrating to see an endless brigade of 1-star reviews for a novel that isn't poorly written or in bad taste - it just happens to take a stance on an unpopular war that rests a bit on the liberal side. The blasphemy in question amounts to LITERALLY a page and a half of Reacher talking, and somehow Child has jumped the shark with this novel.
People need to just grow up. Lee Child is a fantastic novelist, and consistently puts out entertaining thrillers that read like action flicks. Nothing to Lose, while not amazing, is a wholly adequate Reacher novel, and it houses in its pages one of the best bar fights Reacher has been in since Echo Burning. Don't pass on this novel for a page and a half of liberal ideas - give it a whirl. It's not his best but it's damned entertaining, and don't let the naysayers tell you otherwise.
Me too. I'm think I'm done as well. August 15, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Sorry, Mr. Child, but you kind of did me in on this one. It started with the abrupt change of the character in the last book. Reacher became . . . different. It wasn't just his apparent endorsement of PETA. There were aspects of the man's person that changed. I always felt that Reacher's character was based on things like justice, honor, concern for what is just plain right, no matter what the odds. That started to melt away in the earlier book.
In Child's lastest work, Reacher suddenly gets involved in pushing political positions that did not seem to arise from the character, but instead came from the author. And Reacher became a puppet. Unfortunately for Child, I don't think he will find a lot of readers that would support his position. And the earlier Reacher would never accept it, either. How did he intend us to understand this? Are we to suddenly realize that Reacher has been a closet liberal for all these years? You lost me, Mr. Child, and I DO wonder. How would you explain? He was temporarily captured, programmed and possessed by aliens? I don't think this is capable of being repaired. And it's a sorrowful thing because he was such a fine character.
I won't recommend this book, or any book that so blatantly veers away from the character's history to become the political arm of his creator. I mean, Child is free to do it of course, but I don't have to read his books. And I won't.
I'm sorry for you, but I'm more sorry for me. I'm one of the big losers here.
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