Nothing to Lose
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4.1 • 292 Ratings
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- $12.99
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
Not the best Reacher story
Not the best Reacher story but not the worst
Ok, but not great
As title says. Child's has some very readable, very good books. This wasn't one of those.
I felt the plot jumped around a bit, and by the end it all seemed just a bit ridiculous.
The writing really wasn't as good as some of his others as well.
Still worth a read if, like me, you are aiming to read the whole series. But alone, read one of his others.
Not the best Jack Reacher book
A real struggle to finish this one. Reading all in order, this one just didn’t cut it. Irritatingly long. I suggest skipping this book altogether.