Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write, and only Jack Reacher could survive.
Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories. He is the recipient of many prizes, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction. Jack Reacher, the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise, was based on the novel One Shot, and the second is Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
A sequel to the terrific 61 Hours (try to read it first)... one of
the great storytellers of the thriller genre
*The Times*
His is an ironclad storytelling ethos, a gift for narrative that
grips like the proverbial vice... Reacher, as ever, is sui generis
- a violent force for good set down by the author to eliminate evil
and move on. But what counts is Child's ability to keep the reader
turning the pages. If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the
first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at
all
*Independent*
As a warrior who lacks a car, credit card, phone or weapon of his
own, and has no continuing human ties or home, he is even more of a
lone, denuded outsider than Lisbeth Salander, the heroine of Stieg
Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Both are avengers who play on our
atavistic instincts: when we cheer their lethal justice - if we do
- we're acknowledging the pull of a primitive hatred that demands
death and can't wait, scornful of the protracted pussyfooting of
the law
*The Sunday Times*
Worth queuing up for
*Sun*
Explosive as ever
*Daily Mirror*
Having survived the near-cataclysmic ending to 61 Hours, Jack Reacher is on the prowl again. It's only a few days later, still bitterly cold, and Reacher is in Nebraska, where he finds a community ruled by a family of crooks. The Duncan clan specializes in beatings, murder, child molestation, and smuggling. They are also protected by a bunch of ex-linemen from the University of Nebraska, who are large, strong, and not very smart. However evil and sadistic the Duncans are, they are small fish in the world of smuggling and fearful that their sleazy empire will collapse. Thus, when a totally annoyed Reacher starts to dismember both it and the goons, the Duncans become increasingly desperate, calling for outside help from the Mafia and sordid Middle Eastern partners. With Reacher outnumbered about 20 to one, the odds just don't seem fair-to the bad guys, that is. VERDICT Reacher's growing number of fans will enjoy this one. Unless, of course, they went to the University of Nebraska. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 5/1/10.]-Robert Conroy, Warren, MI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
A sequel to the terrific 61 Hours (try to read it first)...
one of the great storytellers of the thriller genre * The
Times *
His is an ironclad storytelling ethos, a gift for narrative
that grips like the proverbial vice... Reacher, as ever, is
sui generis - a violent force for good set down by the author to
eliminate evil and move on. But what counts is Child's ability to
keep the reader turning the pages. If anyone can put down Worth
Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be
reading thrillers at all * Independent *
As a warrior who lacks a car, credit card, phone or weapon of his
own, and has no continuing human ties or home, he is even more of a
lone, denuded outsider than Lisbeth Salander, the
heroine of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Both are
avengers who play on our atavistic instincts: when we cheer
their lethal justice - if we do - we're acknowledging the
pull of a primitive hatred that demands death and can't wait,
scornful of the protracted pussyfooting of the law * The
Sunday Times *
Worth queuing up for * Sun *
Explosive as ever * Daily Mirror *
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
