| Killing Floor |  | Author: Lee Child
Creator: Dick Hill
Publisher: Paperback Nova Audio Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  179 reviews
Sales Rank: 2111948
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Number Of Items: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.5 x 0.8
ISBN: 1567402348
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781567402346
ASIN: 1567402348
Publication Date: November 1, 1997
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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.
Product Description
All is not well in Margrave, Georgia.
The sleepy, forgotten town hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear.
The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing through. But Reacher is not just any drifter. He is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. He has lived with and hunted the worst: the hard men of the American military gone bad.
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 The Stepford Town, the Good Old Boys, and the Loner July 28, 2008
A body is found in the antiseptic Georgia town so police do the only thing logical -- arrest the man just off the bus in a rainstorm, there to find out about the blind black blues singer from 60 years ago.
There's the state prison, the rich young ruler, the Harvard-educated policeman, a couple of elderly barbers, and the new guy, who, incidentally, is a West-Point graduate recently of the MP's. And a woman cop.
Things unpeel onion-wise with questions about how the tiny town on the way to nowhere looks like a movie set, how the first and second men were killed, why an apparent suicide-by-hanging was let go at that, why the young guy had been going to work as usual, eighteen months after he'd been fired from his day job.
Break-neck action, slam-bang conclusion, and the only ending reasonably possible.
Right there with your Sam Spades and Lew Archer.
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".
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