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 enlarge | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Dell
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1911
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0440243661
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780440243663
ASIN: 0440243661
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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 Lee Child is Superman! April 21, 2008
Unlike otdher Reacher books where he works alone, this one he is working with members of his old team. I read this book in one day. I couldn't put it down, the best Reacher yet! When does the movie come out? FISH
Great!!! April 6, 2008
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Es interesante ver que Reacher trabaje con sus excompaneros de la MP. El final en el helicptero si estubo un poco pasada de imaginacion. Supongo que pensada para una pelicula de hollywood.
Great read will keep you in suspense. April 3, 2008
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A true page turner. The story somewhat drags on towards the end, but you will find yourself rushing to find out what happens in the end. Also there are a few holes in the story, but a pure pleasure read nonetheless.
Another great Reacher March 26, 2008
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What can you say about Lee Child except Brilliant entertainment. If you like this one read Soft Target by Conrad Jones thats similar and a fantastic read. More please !!
You Don't Mess with the Special Investigators March 5, 2008
...and you sure as hell don't step on Reacher's toothbrush.
This is Lee Child's 11th Reacher thriller. I've read them all, and I believe it is fair to say, that no other writer has captivated this reader like Mr. Child. What is it about Reacher? In a class by himself? Of course. There're are lots of hard-as-nails protagonists out there, from Mike Hammer to Travis McGee to Harry Bosch, but for me, Jack Reacher is not only the toughest, but also my favorite.
The New York Times claims that Lee Child is "The best thriller writer of the moment." I think this is true, but an understatement. Who is a better thriller writer than Child?
As for Bad Luck and Trouble, I particularly liked knowing a bit more about his old elite MP military unit. Instead of utilizing a prequel, the time frame is the present. Someone has been killing off members of his old unit. After the army, they all had gone on to new careers.
As a writer myself, I wondered if the men and women of his elite unit had been created in the past, or came phoenix-like out of the ashes of Lee Child's imagination as he wrote the book? Doesn't really matter though, does it? Child certainly makes it seem like the eight members of the unit already existed long before Killing Floor, which was Child's first Reacher novel, and where this reader feels the new Reacher reader should start. See my review of Killing Floor on Amazon.
His book "The Enemy," although chronologically the first, was about when he was a major in the army. It brought in his brother and his mother, but was maybe my least favorite. Why is it my least favorite? It wasn't the Reacher we now know and love, but did offer insight into how he got that way.
In "Bad Luck" he had left behind the army years ago, had transitioned from Major Jack Reacher to the man we now know, but the guys and girls in his unit got to see the man not as he used to be, their commander, a major in the army, but the man whose possessions now amounted to a folding toothbrush, a passport, the clothes on his back, and a ATM card. While the rest of the gang had gone on to various degrees of fame, fortune and failure, Reacher had remained the same. A loner, a drifter, truly leaving do trail. I don't know why I'm always surprised when he puts the 9mm up to the guy's head and pulls the trigger, or how he hears the unmistakable sound of a magazine clicking home. This one was high on mystery, high on thrills and suspense. Highly recommended.
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