Nothing to Lose

Jack Reacher, Book 12

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, 12 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.

©2008 Lee Child (P)2008 Random House, Inc.

great book

I did not see the ending coming. fantastic book and would recommend to anyone that loves Reacher our new to the series.

Reacher the way you know and love him! A Badass!

Fast passed and kicking butt. Jumps right in and does not stop. Great listen... If you enjoy Mr. Reacher's wit and face pounding skills.

This is a great read and I couldn't put it down.

loved it. It is a great read with no wasted dialogue. I love the way Lee sucks you into the picture and allows you to see everything and not just read it.

BETTER...MUCH BETTER!

For me, this book is a great rebound from the last one..."Bad Luck and Trouble". It makes me want to move on to the next book. And as ALWAYS, Dick Hill stays on the top of my Great Narrator List. Good job Lee Child!!!!

WRONG and Preachy

SPOILER ALERT
Detonation of a dirty bomb to kill 3 villains and prove himself right just WRONG, Reacher alway does the right thing especially with people that have assisted him on his travels not so here even though drunk, Understand Child's opinion re: the war but would prefer to hear them in a different venue than a Reacher book

again very great

Thank you Lisa thank you I child that was really a good I can't wait to

Reacher in Small CO

The narrator (Dick Hill) was great as usual. I just didn’t get into this story like the previous JR novels. Kinda getting a little political about military service and the Iraq War. It’s not as good as the previous novels.

Ridiculous plot but good storytelling

This book, like all the Reacher books, is an engrossing thriller. Lee Childs is a greater storyteller. Jack Reacher is…well…the Jack Reacher his fans have come to enjoy. In this book, Reacher inadvertently comes across a group of end times fanatics and he needs to sort it all out. There are a number of things that I didn’t like about this book. First is the ridiculous premise - sure you need to come up with villains but this one is extraordinarily far-fetched. Second, more ridiculous premise - given the situation, the town would have never reacted in the way that it did. If it wanted to “stay under the radar”, they would have just initially served Reacher lunch, not bothered him, and watched him leave. They wouldn’t have drawn attention to themselves in the way that they did. Third, I have noticed that Childs is rather lazy at times with plot details, displaying his ignorance about things that he writes about. He does so here as well when he has Reacher converse with the hippie minister who gave him the ride. Most Christians do not interpret the book of Revelation as an “end times guide”, and had Childs done minimal research, he would have learned that. Also, Childs has the hippie minister identify as “Anglican” undoubtedly because Childs read somewhere that Episcopalians have a more liberal view of the Bible. Had Childs done minimal research, he would have learned that in the US, liberal Anglicans identify as “Episcopalians”. Someone identifying as an “Anglican” in the US would also not have an “end times” view of Revelation but would certainly not have had the “well, dude, it’s just a crazy book that nobody understands” view either. Fourth, it is incomprehensible that Reacher would have done what he did at the book’s conclusion unless he was a maniac. All in all, I enjoyed reading this book. It held my attention for sure. But that plot - yikes, you really need to be prepared for a lot of far-fetched stuff. Dick Hill was an excellent narrator as he always is with the Reacher books.

not his best

did find myself compelled to finish it, expect to finish. didnt mixed some previous books situations like some other books.

very disappointing

reacher is very hit and miss this is a definite miss. a pointless meandering story with reacher making some of the stupidest decisions that no one would make. there were times I was hoping reacher would buy it. just disappointing all the way around.