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| Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher Novels) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  267 reviews
Sales Rank: 1771
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0385340567
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385340564
ASIN: 0385340567
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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 Despair.... June 9, 2008
32 out of 45 found this review helpful
Unfortunately Mr. Child has decided to inject his politics into what used to be my favorite book series and my favorite character. After 300 pages of atypical meandering, boring, storyline from Mr. Child we are then subjected to 100 pages of anti-american, anti-Bush, anti-military, anti-christian bias from the author. Reacher used to be my most awaited book, I doubt that I will ever buy another of Mr. Child's books. What a shame and shame on the author.
Of Course now that Child/Reacher is out of the leftwing closet think of all the new plotlines that can be used: Reacher the Eco-Warrior kicking butt on all americans that don't worship at the altar of "An Inconvenient Truth", or Reacher defender of oppressed "undocumented americans" the possibilities are endless!!!
Honestly this series used to be one of the few places that I could escape the intrusion of political correctness and indoctrination and just be entertained by a main character that epitomized good vs evil and believed in doing the right thing.... oh well so much for that....
Child gets David Baldacci Syndrome June 22, 2008
28 out of 36 found this review helpful
I've read and thoroughly enjoyed every Jack Reacher novel. I ordered "Nothing To Lose" weeks before its release, and welcomed its arrival. It was a big disappointment.
I'm sad to report that Lee Child has contracted the David Baldacci Syndrome. It's a malady, that turned me off to Baldacci a year or so ago, that some successful suspense writers catch after they've reach a level of success whereby their successive works are eagerly awaited by loyal readers. The symptom occurs when the authors begins to vent their own geo-political views through the mouths of their lead fictional characters.
It starts on p. 273 where Reacher says, "Because deep down to the army a wounded soldier that can't fight anymore is garbage. So we depend only civilians, and civilians don't care either." I know that to not necessarily to be the case, although there are certainly individual cases where reasonable people feel that way. My initial reaction was - well, that's interesting. Perhaps Childs has been watching BBC and reading The Guardian too much. I kept reading.
The sub-theme, wherein Child vents his frustration with the Iraq War, the military, and the government, continues to be intermittently expressed though the mouth of JR. The book has 407 pages. At page 354, I'd had enough, closed it up, and put it down for good. I neither know nor cared how ends, although in a sub-religion theme I think I saw it coming. Fifty pages short of the end, Child had made his primary point. The JR storyline was merely the vehicle.
I read suspense novels (e.g., Vince Flynn, Michael Connelly) to escape - not to be indoctrinated by a fiction writer.
The JR character has about reached his shelf life limit anyway. A guy his age is becoming ill-equipped to fist fight several large men at once. But if there is, as advertised, another JR novel coming out - count me out.
Falls far short of the other Reacher novels June 8, 2008
26 out of 37 found this review helpful
I am sorry to say that this one was a major disappointment. It is an antiwar propaganda leaflet, not an exciting thriller. Reacher finally takes up arms in the War on Terror, but not in the way you'd expect.
Reacher is called upon to stop a "dirty bomb" that is about to be detonated in an American city. The nefarious villain masterminding this terrorist plot is not a Al Qaeda extremist, but -- of course -- a fundamentalist Christian businessman who is trying to bring about events foretold in the Book of Revelation. The bomb is made of depleted Uranium from salvaged American tank armor, and Reacher gives one of the other characters a detailed briefing on the grave dangers posed by highly toxic depleted Uranium munitions -- a briefing that would do a MOVEON activist proud.
We learn that Reacher is against the war in Iraq when he refuses to expose a network of deserters being smuggled to Canada, stating that he has great sympathy for the deserters and that what they do takes "even more courage" than remaining in combat. His love interest in the book is a wife of an American soldier who has been turned into a vegetable by a brain injury. Reacher and the wife go to visit this wounded veteran, and we learn that they can actually see his brain protruding from the side of his head. Naturally, the conditions in his long-term care facility are appalling; the rooms are filthy, there are mice everywhere, and the staff is surly and unfeeling.
I am a flag-waiving conservative who supports the war in Iraq. However, I do have an open mind. I recognize that many who oppose the war do so in good faith. Moreover, I am not looking for a book that reinforces my own prejudices. And even if I were, I can certainly be entertained by a book even though I might disagree with its message.
But this isn't a book -- it's a ham-fisted piece of left-wing propaganda. The plot is like something dreamed up by a bunch of European college students upon their return from an anti-globalization protest. Every cheesy left-wing cliche imaginable was used in the book, and it is simply awful. At the end you are left wondering when Reacher will sign up for human shield duty in Iraq, it's that bad.
Lee Child has lost it! June 27, 2008
24 out of 29 found this review helpful
I have read all the Jack Reacher novels and couldn't wait for this. But, how disappointing it was!! Lee Child has gone to the liberal left. He had Reacher taking multiple snide remarks about our military in Iraq. The evil in this book was a midwest preacher, who 'owned' a town of religious zealots intent on detonating a bomb to bring on the Rapture. If the theme wasn't bad enough, Child filled the pages with extensive unrelated and boring minutiae suck as every cup of coffe and shower taken. Jack Reacher must be ashamed to be in this book. Save your money on this loser. Madeline
 Very disappointing for a true Lee Child/Jack Reacher fan June 8, 2008
20 out of 26 found this review helpful
Lee Child's last book, Bad Luck and Trouble, was a true masterpiece, and having read all of his books, it was clear to me that his work was getting better and better with each addition. Well, I have to say that this book did not follow the trend. The plot was boring, something of a mix of Killing Floor and Echo Burning, and Reacher's uniqueness and charm didn't come through. It was like this book was slapped together, or written by somebody else. Also, while I don't always agree with Reacher's tactics, what he does at the end of this book is deplorable.
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