Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) | Lee Child

Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) | Lee Child | Disappointing, but Jack Reacher is still a wonderful character!

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Nothing to Lose (J...

	Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) Lee Child Delacorte Press, 2008 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 296 reviews view larger image
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Less than satisfying!

I am a big fan of Lee Child's books. They are usually fast moving and interesting. This title is a tad different. It was easy to put down and in fairness, it was also easy to pick back up and get on with. However...it struck me that Child wrote this book without quite know the direction it would take. The end seemed to me to be a tidy tying up of many loose ends, most of which were un-satisfying in their conclusion. A big disappointment!

Disappointing, but Jack Reacher is still a wonderful character!

Jack Reacher is truly a wonderful character, but this book loses touch with him. The ending is hurried and struck me as contrived, rather than polished, which is the norm for Lee Childs.

I'm sure it's very difficult to create new and interesting material repeatedly, but this character deserves the extra effort. As an idea, why not try bringing the character full circle with a reason and desire to stop drifting and become involved in a current real-life military or geopolitical situation - maybe working with something like Blackwater or the like? Thanks for one of the more interesting and enduring characters around! Please try again - great reads until this one - all other Reacher books are worth every minute and dime spent on them!

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