Lee Child - Nothing to Lose

Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
Ex military policeman and full time drifter Jack Reacher hitchhikes into Despair, Colorado only to be arrested on a trumped up vagrancy charge, and then promptly kicked out of town. There's no way he's going to take that kind of behavior, so hooking up with a policewoman from the neighboring town of Hope, Reacher sets out to find out what the town fathers in Despair are hiding. This was a solid, if formulaic Reacher thriller following the standard plot: Jack drifts into town, gets caught up in somebody's mess, finds a woman to help him (and sleep with him) and then solves the problem with a mix of brains and brawn. While it's not a bad thriller, and Reacher is always a compelling character, I think Child needs to get away from the formula and mix things up a bit during his next book. To his credit though, he has Reacher take a stand about the poor treatment of soldiers injured in the Iraq war, and the misuse of soldiers in general by self-serving politicians.


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