Die Trying (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 24 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher Description
The bestselling novel featuring the “wonderfully epic hero” (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher.
Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman being kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they’re at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because this mysterious woman is worth more than Reacher ever suspected. Now he has to save them both—from the inside out—or die trying.
Customer Reviews
Story diminished by so-so narration
Sure, McClain ‘reads’ well enough, but his Reacher sounds like a semi-nerdy, indifferent, teenaged stoner. Agent Holly Johnson sounds like an impetuous, gum-chewing, undergrad bimbo. Despite how soft and high-pitched Lee Child describes it, there’s no trace of intimidation in the voice of the ‘Commander’. Holly Johnson’s fellow agents all sound like stereotypical 1940’s private investigators with a permanent case of snarkiness and impatience. The Commander’s henchmen sound stereotypically shallow, monolithic, and unconvincing. Dick Hill’s narration, marked by his unique cadence, intonation, and gravitas would have been better.