• Nothing to Lose

  • Jack Reacher, Book 12
  • By: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Dick Hill
  • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (5,497 ratings)

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Nothing to Lose

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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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.

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Nothing to Lose

As always Lee Child did a wonderful job of keeping me on the edge of my seat. There's nothing quite like a Jack Reacher novel to entertain and keep me wanting more.

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Socialist Trash

From start to finish it stabs at Christianity. Clearly something that doesn't belong in these type of stories and especially not a Reacher novel. Then if that wasn't enough to disgust you, Child might as well walk around with a sign on that says I love Jimmy Carter. He quite adamantly supports draft dodging and deserters. Clearly Child has never served any military service in any of the 3 countries that he owns property in. Because if he had he would know that no soldier that isn't a coward, would leave his or her unit. No matter how political the war is, or how many times they've been in the shit. This book wasn't worth the paper it was printed on and definitely not worth the time Dick Hill spent reading it or me listening to.

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Jack Reacher - Got to Love Him

Lee Child does a great job. I love all of his books. This is another great one.

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Another Good Jack Reacher Novel

I was hesitant to get the audio book even though I had read every one up to this point. It got so many mediocre reviews I was afraid I would be disappointed, but I wasn't. I am not sure why so many people were disgusted with his so called views on religion and the military. I thought it was much ado about nothing. I like the books that he has a "relationship" with a woman, no matter how short lived. I mean, after all, what woman wouldn't want to be with the picture of the man they portray on the website??? I think sometime in the future to carry on the legacy, Jack Reacher should father a little boy who can grow up to take his place! And I have said this before and I'll say it again, I love to listen to Dick Hill. I'm quoting some other reviewer but I could listen to him read the outside of a cereal box.

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Not as good as The Enemy but ok.

I like Jack but this book wasn't as believable to me.

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Stupid ending

No f former cop or MP would go into a shootout with two bullets in his gun and nine in his pocket. He would’ve stopped and reloaded. It ruined the whole story.

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Save Your Money, Save Your Sanity

The author attempts to signal his disdain for the American Iraq War by conjuring images of soldiers destroyed by IEDs and Christian zealotry. Then Reacher shows up and never left. This is a war protest book and not appropriate for Major Reacher! Be a true patriot and pass on reading this book. You’re welcome. Shameful. Been through all the 12 previous books. A fan of the series. Sad.

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Just too much. Done w the Reacher series

I have listened to all of the previous novels and, for the most part, have enjoyed them. I have overlooked, with notable irritation, much of the author’s technical and social inaccuracies, glaring lack of military knowledge, misunderstanding of all things related to physical violence, and constant reminders of his left leanings which influence the stories, due to the fact that the books are mostly entertaining.

As a Marine with numerous deployments, Reachers character is as hollow when it comes to military authenticity as a grownup character written by an adolescent would sound to other grownups.

This latest story is so busy making an anti-Iraq-war statement that it’s just gone beyond the pale for anyone who has served -especially a combat arms vet. It would probably appeal to Bo Bergdahl, but I cannot even imagine any other veteran who could stand this book.

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Jack goes too far this time.

I’ve liked the series so far but this book was horrible. I don’t want to give any details away so I’m just going to say this. Jack was out of control for the entire book and what he did at the very end of the book should’ve resulted in him and his female companion for this book both getting arrested and thrown in jail for the rest of their lives.

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not the best...

it was a struggle to listen let alone follow the storyline. I do love the narrator though!

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