Product Description

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #53163 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-03
• Released on: 2008-06-03
• Formats: Audiobook, Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 11
• Binding: Audio CD

From 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. (June)
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Review
“As I was reading this latest book, I was trying to understand why I like the Reacher series so much….The Jack Reacher books are all revenge fantasies. By the time the reader encounters the first fight, the reader is already mad…. Reacher doesn't go looking for trouble, but trouble usually finds him.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”—People


From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author
Lee Child is the author of twelve Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and Bad Luck and Trouble. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his thirteenth Jack Reacher thriller. Visit the author’s website at www.LeeChild.com.

Customer Reviews

No longer a fan
I've read all of the previous Reacher books and have enjoyed them all. This was his not his best story line or writing. To add to the problems Child decides to force some political views. Which doesn't even fit. I have alwasy recomended Child and the Reacher series. I won't pick one up again and I'll be sure to speak ill of this book when I get a chance.

Total waste of time
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels)This is undoubtedly one of the worst books I have ever read. The reason I gave it one star was because that was the lowest rating Amazon allowed. The only reason it held my attention was because the other books by Child have been so great. If this had been the first book of his I had read, I would have put it down within 100 pages. He kept plowing the same ground it seemed to me. The characters were shallow and not well developed. The plot was weak. It just didn't give me much to get excited about. I kept thinking, "this has got to get better," but it didn't. I hope this is a fluke, and Child's next effort will be back up to par with his previous works.

spun off the rails. end of the series?
The previous book wasn't great, but I gave Child the benefit of the doubt. This book really was it fo rme. Lousy plot, silly situations, and a Reacher that was nothing like the previous books.

Read this only if you have a read need for disappointment.