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Title: Die Trying by Lee Child ISBN: 0-515-12502-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (72 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Couldn't put this one down.........
Comment: Another excellent book by Lee Child. After reading the first book about Jack Reacher, I couldn't wait for the next one. I was not disappointed. From the opening pages, when Jack is taken off the streets in a wrong place at wrong time scenario, I was hooked. I read alot of books, all genres, but I really enjoy a good thriller. Mr. Child writes with intelligence and humor, respects the reader with plausible plot and realistic characters. This is worth the time and money. Jack Reacher, HURRY BACK!
Rating: 4
Summary: Welcome back Jack.
Comment: DIE TRYING is Lee Child's second novel featuring his tough as nails hero, Jack Reacher. Once again Jack is caught up in events that don't concern him. While walking down the street minding his own business, Jack gets scooped up in the kidnapping of a young woman who is more than she seems. I liked that Child switched the narrative from 1st person, in Killing Floor, to 3rd person. It gives the reader a chance to see the problem through several perspectives.
What can I say about Jack? He's cool as hell. He certainly has a heart and a conscience but it doesn't stop him from being ruthlessly brutal when the situation calls for it. If Jack Reacher tells you he's going to kill you, start digging your grave. I especially enjoyed the way he dispatched a would be rapist. While about to kill him with a swift and lethal blow, Jack decides that would be too good for him and suffocates him instead.
Child can be overly descriptive when it comes to weaponary and shooting. I don't need a page and a half explaining the chemical reaction that occurs when a bullet is fired. That kind of writing is best left to Stephen Hunter, who is a master at it. Another small criticism is in the ending. Jack is left standing on the side of the road with his clothes in tatters and presumably without a dime in his pocket. It made me think of the ending of THE ROAD WARRIOR. After all that occurs in the story would the FBI simply wave goodbye? I don't think so.
Still, none of these prevented me from reading a thoroughly enjoyable thriller with an extremely intriguing hero. I look forward to reading more of Jack Reacher's adventures.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Master of Mayhem
Comment: Lee Child's "Jack Reacher" novels have a refreshing purity about them: simply action, mayhem, and brutality wrapped around straight, unadorned plots. Testosterone runs high, larger-than-life bad guys take evil to new depths, cliffhangers that would embarrass Indiana Jones. And if there is such a thing as a literary equivalent of film's slow-motion action scenes, then Lee Child is the master. Guns don't simply shoot a bullet; Child talks muzzle velocities, projectile weights, gun barrel chemistry, and the physics of 0.5-inch diameter bullet fired from a Barrett sniper rifle passing through skull and brain. All very violent, and all very entertaining.
"Die Trying" is Lee Child's second Jack Reacher novel, and there is no sophomore jinx. Reacher, ex-military cop and veritable walking encyclopedia of all armament, happens on the wrong place at the wrong time in downtown Chicago, finding himself unwittingly in the middle of a kidnapping. The victim: Holly Johnson, a beautiful and brainy FBI agent, but, as it turns out, much, much more. The perps: a band of neo-fascist wacko's - think Waco or Ruby Ridge - about to hatch a plot to declare independence and secede from the United States. Meanwhile, everybody from the FBI to the US Marines tries to find and free Holly, while Reacher works on the inside - as a co-hostage - fights to protect Holly's honor, chastity, and life. Child paints a wonderfully diabolically twisted Beau Borkin as the leader of the cult, and a rather fascinating picture of life inside an extreme right-wing conspiracy. Bottom line: not a novel you'll be retelling to the grandkids, and no literary milestone, but few can verbalize raw power better than Lee Child. A great page-turner, a great diversion, pure entertainment.
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Title: Running Blind by Lee Child ISBN: 0515130974 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Echo Burning by Lee Child ISBN: 0515133310 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Without Fail by Lee Child ISBN: 0515135283 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel by LEE CHILD ISBN: 0385336667 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Enemy by Lee Child ISBN: 0385336675 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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