Nothing to Lose - Lee Child
This was my first novel with this author, and so my first experience with the character Jack Reacher. This is the latest in the series, the 12th book, so I’ve missed quite a bit of back story but this book reads well on its oown as well. Jack, a wandering former military man, passes through the town of Hope and continues walking the 17 miles to the neighboring town of Despair. While in the latter, he is jailed by the local deputies and returned to the town line of the former. Reacher, having no better place to be, gets involved in finding out what is going on in Despair that makes its police force so efficient at prosecuting “vagrants.” I enjoyed the plot, although there were a few moments when the bad guys seem to inexplicably act a bit out of character to continue the story. I will be going back to the first book now so I can catch up with Reacher’s history.
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Posted on June 18th, 2008 by toddg
Filed under: Books, Mystery
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