Lee Child

61 Hours, featuring the much-loved maverick hero Jack Reacher, was published in March 2010. It ended on a cliff-hanger. What happened to Reacher? Will this new novel provide the answer?

Worth Dying for

Jack Reacher clashes with an organized crime family that is terrorizing Nebraska corn country in their efforts to supply dangerous international customers, a battle that is complicated by the unsolved case of a missing child.

Tracie McMurray

** spoiler alert **
           WOW. He is a walking judge, jury and executioner. This one was hard to put down. Child revealed the depravity of man gradually and then all at once like a punch in the gut. Whew.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller—a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown. There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can’t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late—and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible. Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write and only Jack Reacher could survive—a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss.

A Jack Reacher Novel

Worth Dying For

Kayleigh hughes

This isn't the kind of book I naturally gravitate towards. My mum bought it at the airport bookstore on her way down to stay with me this long weekend and I decided to give it a read since it was here, really what I should have done was leave it in her luggage! This was my first in the Jack Reacher series and my first Lee Child book (has he written anything apart from the Jack Reacher series, I don't know?) and I imagine probably my last. The setting in the Nebraskan wilderness 60 miles from the nearest police station made for an interesting premise, but ultimately all we had was an ex-army psychopath who could comfortably take the law into his own hands without fear of the cops breathing down his neck, and that is exactly what he did. I know these action/thrillers are never too realistic, but this book is so far removed from reality it annoyed me. For the action in this story to have a semblance of realism it really should have taken place in a post-apocalyptic society or a lawless community in the middle of a jungle in some un-developed country, not the United States. The other problem was the 'mystery' aspect of the novel, from the outset we know several details about the young girl's disappearance, but there was no attempt at any red herrings or to disguise the case as something less obvious than a mole on the end of your nose. This was a case that went unsolved by 3 different police organisations and was of great interest to the community but it was obvious from the second her disappearance was noted (which incidentally doesn't occur until about 150-200 pages into the book). Couple this with the two-dimensional characters and you have a book with no drive, there is nothing to hold your interest so it becomes a chore to read. I'm fine with violence in my novels when there is a need, but 500 pages just to describe a series of ways to kill a guy without any real plot progression or character development is boring.

Melody Izard

The book before this one leaves you hanging. I didn't HAVE to go right from one Lee Child to another. It wasn't as if I REALLY thought Reacher was dead. But I fell for the ploy and plunged right into this Nebraska bread basket with just the slightest doubt (wink wink) that our hero was still able to kick butt. 

This book reminds me more of the first Jack Reacher book I read, 
  Nothing to Lose
: it reads more like an allegory - more like a battle between good and evil - only good has gotten battered around and has decided to stay drunk most of the time instead of standing up to evil. Reacher has to knock Good off his bar stool, hold Good's eyes open, stick the gun in Good's hands and say "now grow some balls and take care of this shit".

Brandon Lee

A marked improvement over the last few books in the Jack Reacher series. Cleaner plotting, but still follows the small-town-problems-linked-to-larger-criminal-conspiracy template. Hoping the next one opens up a bit.

'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at all' - Independent There's deadly trouble in the wilds of Nebraska...and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl that Reacher can't let go. Reacher - bruised and battered - should have just kept on going. But for Reacher, that was impossible. What, in this fearful rural county, would be worth dying for? Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Worth Dying For follows on directly from the end of 61 Hours

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Michael Cowell

'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn't really be reading thrillers at all' Independent There's trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl that Reacher can't let go. Reacher - bruised and battered - should have just kept going. But for Reacher, that was impossible. What, in this fearful county, would be worth dying for? Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Worth Dying For follows on directly from the end of 61 Hours.

Worth Dying for

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