Nothing To Lose

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Lee Child: Nothing To Lose (EBook, 2009, Transworld)

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English language

Published Nov. 12, 2009 by Transworld.

ISBN:
978-1-4090-8260-6
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3 stars (1 review)

Premium eBook featuring video. Additional material such as audio and video can be viewed only in Adobe® Digital Editions on Mac or PC. The new Jack Reacher thriller by the no.1 bestseller.Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity. What is the secret the locals seem so keen to hide?A hard man is good to find. Ex-military cop Reacher is today's most addictive hero. Now he pulls on a tiny loose thread, to unravel conspiracies that expose the most shocking truths. Because, …

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reviewed Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #12)

Competence porn with a somewhat preposterous setup

3 stars

Standard Jack Reacher. Teacher blows into town. Gets hassled and rather than move on, decides to mess with the people who hassled him

The preposterous part is the entire town of Despair Colorado is complicit. Even more preposterous is that no one talks. They just run Reacher right out of town for mysterious reasons. But if you can suspend disbelief on that, the rest falls into place.