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Title: Echo Burning by Lee Child ISBN: 0-515-13331-0 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (56 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A hot new adventure!
Comment: Jack Reacher is hitching a ride through the heat of West Texas when a Latina woman invites him into her air-conditioned white Cadillac. As they head south to Pecos she proposes a dire scheme involving motherhood, marriage & murder.
I've not met Jack Reacher before, although Lee Child has written four previous books about him. Reacher's a huge, unkempt & unlikely hero. Reminiscent of the Lone Ranger except he wears no white hat, nor clean clothes for that matter.
An army brat, dragged from base to base by his parents, he then enlisted as an investigator in the Military Police. Let go after thirteen years of service, during the downsizing of the military, he's been bumming around the country looking for some peace, & getting into trouble & out of motel bathroom windows.
This young wife's story piques his curiosity although what she asks of him butts him up against his principles. Still, the Cadillac is a cool haven, the woman is beautiful & Reacher goes along for the ride.
Where it takes him is into a viper nest of oil wealth, racial hatred, domestic violence, tax evasion, a husband's return from jail, & lying lawmen.
I liked ECHO BURNING - a well-written story with probable people, intense action & a view of life that makes you think!
Rating: 5
Summary: MR. CHILD'S BEST BOOK SINCE
Comment: Last year, when I read RUNNING BLIND, I gave it a somewhat scathing review, stating that Lee Child hadn't produce a really exciting book since THE KILLING FLOOR, promising myself that I'll never buy another "Jack Reacher" novel in hardback for as long as I lived. As far as I was concerned, Mr. Child had three strikes against him and had struck out with me as a fan. Well, I broke the promise to myself with the publication of ECHO BURNING, and I'm glad I did. This novel turned out to be a winner in every sense of the word and represents the sheer craftsmanship that Lee Child is capable of bringing to his work. In his newest book, Jack Reacher once again returns and finds himself caught up in a game of lies, abuse and murder. While hitchhiking out of Lubbock, Texas in an attempt to escape the wrath of the law, he's picked up by Carmen Greer, a beautiful, married Latino woman who's driving a luxurious white Cadillac. Mrs. Greer is looking for someone to kill her abusive husband, Sloop, who's due to get out of prison, and she thinks that Reacher would be the perfect person to take care of her little problem. Since Reacher doesn't consider himself to be a cold-blooded killer, he politely refuses her kind offer. He does, however, agree to go back to the ranch where she and her daughter, Ellie, live with Sloop's family and to act as a protector for her. This leads to our hero finding himself in the middle of a really large domestic dispute. Except for Carmen and Ellie, nobody in the Greer family likes having his presence at the ranch, and they attempt to do everything within their power to force him to leave. When Sloop get out of jail and returns home, only to be murdered on the night of his arrival, it looks as though Carmen decided to take matters into her own hands. No one believes that she is innocent, except for Reacher, and he's not absolutely sure himself. As he attempts to find out who the real killer is, Reacher suddenly becomes the focus point of a three-person "hit" team, and he must find a way to stay alive long enough to finally get to the truth. ECHO BURNING is a taut, suspenseful thriller that displays the brilliant writing that Lee Child is capable of penning. He captures the heat and isolation of the Texas landscape perfectly, while giving us characters filled with either an outright meanness or a hidden evil. Though Reacher is able to read people, judging how good or bad they might be, he may have just met his match with the Greer family. There are so many lies and half-truths being told by, and about, the family that our main character won't know whom to believe, and neither will the reader. Is everything that Carmen Greer told Reacher a lie so that her husband could be murdered, or is the Greer family really a nest of vipers, ready to kill to protect its own? In this novel, Mr. Child touches the inner core of what evil really is and how it hides behind the masks of ordinary people. Jack Reacher, however, shines at his best as he decides to take on a whole town, if necessary, to do what he feels is right, meeting violence with violence, and handing out death to those who want a piece of him. ECHO BURNING is one tough novel that gives us a deeper look at the character of Jack Reacher and the essence of humanity in him that reaches out to help those who are being preyed upon. This is definitely the kind of person you want covering your back when the bad guys are closing in. For those of you who loved THE KILLING FLOOR, Mr. Child has written another book that equals, if not surpasses, the quality of his first novel. It's one I'm proud to highly recommend!
Rating: 4
Summary: Reacher, the Good Samaritan
Comment: Ex-Army M.P. Jack Reacher is thumbing a ride to make a hasty escape from a small south Texas town when he is picked up by a young attractive Hispanic woman driving a big white Cadillac. The woman, Carmen Greer had been cruising the locale picking up rough and tumble looking men to coax them to protect her from her husband, Sloop. At 6 feet 5 inches and 250 pounds, Reacher certainly fit the bill.
Carmen Greer had married into an old monied Texas family with a sprawling ranch outside of Pecos in oppressively hot and dusty Echo county. She had married Sloop, the eldest son, after becoming pregnant. The spousal abuse started soon after. Unfortunately due to the racism of the Greer family against "beaners" or Mexicans and the lax laws in that part of the state, Carmen's cries went unheeded.
Reacher initially refused his assistance especially after he was asked to kill Sloop Greer. His posture however softened after meeting Carmen's vivacious six year old flaxen haired daughter Ellie. Reacher posing as a ranch hand looking for work at the Greer's Red House Ranch, instantaneously sized up the situation.
Unknown to Reacher was that the family was concurrently being surveyed and stalked by two groups of three individuals with unknown motives.
As Reacher became more deeply involved in this passion play he became aware that there was a plethora of secrets and lies surrounding the inhabitants of Echo county.
Lee Child, while intriguing me with the exploits of his hero Reacher, never convinces me that Reacher was influenced enough to actually give a darn about Carmen Greer's dilemma. I however will march forward to the next novel in the series.
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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: Die Trying by Lee Child ISBN: 0515125024 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Killing Floor by Lee Child ISBN: 0515123447 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: May, 1998 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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