Better Off Dead: A Jack Reacher Novel (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.
Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning.
Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he was heading west, walking under the merciless desert sun—until he comes upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel.
Dead? No, nothing is what it seems.
The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who might be mixed up with some dangerous people. Most of them would rather die than betray their terrifying leader, who has burrowed his influence deep into the nearby border town, a backwater that has seen better days. The mysterious Dendoncker rules from the shadows, out of sight and under the radar, keeping his dealings in the dark.
He would know the fate of Fenton’s brother.
Reacher is good at finding people who don’t want to be found, so he offers to help, despite feeling that Fenton is keeping secrets of her own. But a life hangs in the balance. Maybe more than one. But to bring Dendoncker down will be the riskiest job of Reacher's life. Failure is not an option, because in this kind of game, the loser is always better off dead.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Danger lurks around every corner in this Jack Reacher thriller set in the desolate Arizona desert. After stumbling upon a strange car crash involving a mysterious female military veteran, Lee Child’s vigilante hero gets caught up in a quest to stop a paranoid crime boss. Lee and his brother and co-author, Andrew Child, turn this setup into a tense cat-and-mouse game, artfully building up the suspense as Reacher makes bold moves to entrap his target. With its gunfights and psychological twists—not to mention the bleak, hard-edged border town setting and the seedy, secretive characters who live there—Better Off Dead is a totally gripping listen. Veteran Reacher narrator Scott Brick delivers the Childs’ clipped dialogue and sudden bursts of violence with the perfect mixture of deadpan cool and icy menace. If the Tom Cruise movies have piqued your curiosity about this long-running series, this is a perfect place to dive in.
Customer Reviews
Udderly descriptive.
Too much detail, minimum action.
Lee Child’s average book
Not really good.
Great Listen
So many twists and turns. EXCELLENT!