Killing Floor | 
 enlarge | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0515141429
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780515141429
ASIN: 0515141429
Publication Date: April 25, 2006
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When Jack Reacher suddenly decides to ask a Greyhound bus driver to let him off near the town of Margrave, Georgia, he thinks it's because his brother once mentioned that the famed blues guitarist Blind Blake died there. But it doesn't take long for the footloose ex-military policeman to discover that there are plenty of strange--and very dangerous--things going on behind Margrave's manicured lawns and clean streets that demand his attention. This first thriller by a former television writer features some of the best-written scenes of action in recent memory, a crash course in currency and counterfeiting, and a hero who is just begging to be called on for an encore.
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 Simple Solution July 18, 2008
Problem: One ex-military policeman decides to deal with a gang of vicious murdering criminals.
Answer: Kill them all.
An over-the-top mystery July 15, 2008
Funny with too many bodies left around without apparent consequences. This story stretches credulity.
 Reacher at his best July 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Lee Child`s creation is brilliant for a series of books, the transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately arrested, if briefly, as a murder suspect. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that one of the victims is his brother, a brilliant U.S. Treasury agent. Reacher himself is no slouch; a former military policeman, he can dispatch villains with an astonishing array of weapons, including various parts of his body. In the company of a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop, Reacher soon unearths a conspiracy stretching through the little town and beyond. Blood flows freely, terrible threats are made and carried out, and body parts accumulate. First novelist Child, a former television writer, stretches coincidence outrageously in this would-be noir outing, whose hero is creepily amoral, violent, and generally unpleasant. As a published author myself I`m in awe of Child`s talent.
Great introduction of Jack Reacher. June 26, 2008
I just read this book last year and I really liked it.
The first Jack Reacher book I read was The Hard Way, which was O.K.,
but I decided to start at the beginning and work my way forward.
This was a great introduction of this character and I have read
the whole series now, up to and including the new one called
"Nothing to Lose".
The best ones are "Killing Floor", "Tripwire", "Die Trying",
and "Nothing to Lose". The only one I didn't like that much was
"One Shot".
An American Tradition-Knight in Tarnished Armor June 21, 2008
This is the first in an established series that has a lot of first-timer mistakes. Many of the decisions/actions that the female characters choose seem very much out of a typical female reaction. Like, sure, I'm going to invite a homeless, recently released prisoner into my home/bed and leave him alone while I go to work. Duh! But the central figure--Jack Reacher--comes right out of that superb American tradition probably established by Dashiel Hamlett going through the Raymond Chandler-John D. MacDonald and now bringing us back around. Many of the newer "adventure" style novels either tend toward silliness (Clive Cussler), a dementia to detail (Tom Clancy Inc.) or have blood thirsty female leads. This novel leans more towards the old school notion of the Lone Wolf good guy making a difference on shady moral ground. Horrific violence, but still a welcome addition to an outstanding group of American anti-hereos.
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