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Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) |  | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Rating:  404 reviews
Sales Rank: 27244
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Pages: 416
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B002KAOSEW
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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 What would Jack Reacher do? November 8, 2009
Autodidact (San Marino, CA USA)
I have read or listened to almost every Jack Reacher book before this one. I thought I knew the guy. I was wrong. This book is not just a disappointment. It is despicable. Two problems: the plot and the character.
Years ago we used to watch "Murder, She Wrote" on TV. We all really loved this show, but my 8-year-old daughter noticed that every week you could correctly guess the killer at exactly 35 minutes after the hour. It was that formulaic. More recent TV dramas follow a different formula, but they are just as predictable. The bad guy is always easy to spot. He is the fat old white guy, or the smoker, or the evil capitalist, or the Christian minister (preferably fundamentalist). This book falls squarely into this trap. If that were the only problem, it would merely be boring and uninteresting.
The bigger problem is that Jack Reacher has become a Euro-weany. He now apparently hates the U.S. Army that he previously loved. He is scornful of the same small-town America he has traveled in for 15 years. He is sympathetic to military deserters and the groups that assist them. He professes to stand for law and order but acts like a vigilante. He seems to think the biggest threat to America is from right-wing Christian groups and down-on-their-luck factory workers. To paraphrase a famous U.S. president, this is not the Jack Reacher I thought I knew.
I would love to see a Jack Reacher novel that addresses a real threat to this country and the world. Check the headlines this week. If Jack Reacher had been at Ft. Hood, Texas, which side would he have been fighting on? I thought I knew. Now I am not so sure.
If I could give this book negative stars, I would.
Worst Reacher Story Yet November 2, 2009
John Smith (New Jersey, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In what is easily Child's worst novel, he takes Reacher on an adventure that he has no business being in. Child then lets his political beliefs seep into the story and what you have is a grand mess. I really did not like this book.
 Very bland ending tempers good beginning October 28, 2009
G. Henson
This is not as strong as others in the Jack Reacher series. It starts out strong with Reacher kicking butt and taking names, and really for the first two-thirds of the novel, the menace of the bad guys is there. However, during the last third if not half of the book, "Never mind" seems to be the theme. The weakest of endings severely wounds a strong effort at the onset. For those who are interested, the book also carries a slightly stronger anti-Christian tone than others in the series even though Reacher would never be mistaken for an evangelist.
skip this Reacher novel October 24, 2009
Rob Northrup (Norcross, GA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read all the previous Reacher novels, and loving them for the most part, this one is awful...
I kept reading it hoping that the plot would get interesting, but all that happened is that the ex-MP that we have come to know and love in previous books starts spouting Nancy Pelosi/Cindy Sheehan leftist drivel.
The author should either keep his anti-American, anti-soldier politics to himself or invent a new character that he can write pacifist novels for. I hope that he gets back to writing Jack Reacher as a good guy and leaves the politics out of it...
and if you love Reacher novels and haven't yet read this one, just move along to tne next one... there can't be two bad ones in a row can there?
 Reacher's Woes October 19, 2009
Bryan Cassiday (Los Angeles, CA)
Blood Moon: Thrillers and Tales of Terror
"Nothing to Lose" is not one of Lee Child's best books featuring his hero Reacher. The first two hundred-odd pages plod along as Reacher goes back and forth between two towns with the patently allegorical names of Hope and Despair. Meanwhile, there is very little in the way of plot development to propel the story.
That being said, I have to admit I like the ending, and midway through the novel the pace does pick up satisfactorily.
I found the villain to be an interesting character, and ultimately, I do like the complex, if at times bewildering, plot of this thriller. If only it hadn't taken so long for it to play out!
--Bryan Cassiday, author of "Blood Moon" and "Fete of Death"
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