Nothing to Lose
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4.0 • 476 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.
From Hope to Despair.
Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee.What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line.
But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape.
No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity.
What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of bestseller Child's solid 12th Jack Reacher novel (after Bad Luck and Trouble), the ex-military policeman hitchhikes into Colorado, where he finds himself crossing the metaphorical and physical line that divides the small towns of Hope and Despair. Despair lives up to its name; all Reacher wants is a cup of coffee, but what he gets is attacked by four thugs and thrown in jail on a vagrancy charge. After he's kicked out of town, Reacher reacts in his usual manner he goes back and whips everybody's butt and busts up the town's police force. In the process, he discovers, with the help of a good-looking lady cop from Hope, that a nearby metal processing plant is part of a plan that involves the war in Iraq and an apocalyptic sect bent on ushering in the end-time. With his powerful sense of justice, dogged determination and the physical and mental skills to overcome what to most would be overwhelming odds, Jack Reacher makes an irresistible modern knight-errant.
Customer Reviews
Standard Jack Reacher
If you’re a Jack Reacher fan, you’ll probably enjoy this book. Oh, it has the usual violence, stereotypical women, etc. but it’s got an intriguing storyline. A bit predictable perhaps - I’d figured it out quite a ways before the end :) But if you just want an entertaining read, it fits the bill.
Too descriptive at times
In all of the Reacher books I have read so far, which I have been enjoying in their written order, Lee Child does like to be descriptive in his writing for things such as hotel rooms or clothes outfits and on the whole the descriptive isn’t too disruptive to the flow of the story. In this book though I found myself skipping through whole pages at a time as the descriptives spoilt the flow of the storyline several times. I would still recommend this book as a good read, like all the Reacher books are, but would have liked the discovery of what was about to happen next not delayed by long descriptions of things such as walls and their surroundings.
First half OK, then it gets boring and silly
Doing way too much skip reading with this one. Boring descriptive filler Absolute rubbish.
Worst Reacher yet. It’s just a political swipe at the George W Bush administration and its war in Afghanistan.