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Nothing to Lose

(Jack Reacher, No. 12)

By Lee Child, Dick Hill (Reader)

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Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothiContinue

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.


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  • Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

    The is the twelfth episode in the long-ongoing Jack Reacher saga. You’d think by now that cops everywhere would have some kind of secret network to alert authorities in a particular area that Reacher is heading in their direction and get out of the w ... (read full critics)

    themysteryreader published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • The Best Reviews: Lee Child, Nothing to Lose

    "Jack's back - caught between Hope and Despair..." This makes it an even dozen adventures in the acclaimed Jack Reacher series. The ex-Army cop as sold over 20 million novels for his creator and when this title was released last year in hardback, it ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • The first Jack reacher novel I read.
    I stumbled on it at the library, picked it up without expecting much, and then read it in a couple of days, ending up wanting for more!

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    Tabathua said on Mar 13, 2010 | Add your feedback

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    I didn't enjoy this as much as other Jack Reacher novels. Reacher was more of a jerk than usual, just looking for a fight at every turn, and his reasoning wasn't very clear. Also, the author got off on an anti-war tangent, basically saying that there hadn't been a war worth fighting since 1945. Thi ... (continue)

    I didn't enjoy this as much as other Jack Reacher novels. Reacher was more of a jerk than usual, just looking for a fight at every turn, and his reasoning wasn't very clear. Also, the author got off on an anti-war tangent, basically saying that there hadn't been a war worth fighting since 1945. This leads me to believe that Lee Child doesn't really know his history. In 1939-44, WWII was no more popular than the Korean War, the Vietnam War, or the Iraqi War. The only reasons we look back on it favorably are that we won and that we defeated Hitler, but U.S. citizens didn't want to get involved in an overseas war, and no one really cared about the Jews until after the war.

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    Missmath144 said on Nov 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • Not getting any better

    Easily the worst Reacher novel. Too preachy, absolutely too unbelievable, a way too obvious plot, a stupid mob scene. You can't set the bar too high for this type of fiction, but this was just awful.

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    myrtlebch said on Jul 16, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  • ISBN-10: 0739365894
  • ISBN-13: 9780739365892
  • Publisher: Random House Audio
  • Pub date: Jun 03, 2008
  • Dimensions: 981 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD and eBook
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