Recommended mainly for the avid Reacher fan. Nihal Atawane Certified Buyer. Wonderfully paced, aptly sensationalized and wonderfully carved. One of my favourite Reacher story.
Plot gets you engrossed right from the beginning and takes a couple of turns before climax. Though the suspense is riveting, somehow one can predict it but nevertheless eggs you to turn pages. Flipkart Customer Certified Buyer. Tejinder Singh Certified Buyer , Kapurthala. Good thriller. Typical jack reacher thriller. Delivery and packing was good. If I say I am a huge fan of Lee child, it would be an understatement of the century!
I have read all the books by Lee Child and if you ask me to pick one as the best, this would be it. Unputdownable is the word I must use. Worth every penny! I have read all the novels in the Jack Reacher series. He is by far the best fictional character that I have read so far.
I had initially picked up this novel just to know what happened to Reacher at the end of the last Novel - 61 Hours. I wanted to know how he got saved. But as I kept reading on Its so gripping! You will be notified in advance of any changes in rate or terms.
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Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. Get A Copy. Published October 19th by Delacorte Press first published September 30th More Details Original Title. Nebraska United States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
To ask other readers questions about Worth Dying For , please sign up. I have just recently discovered this series and unfortunately started in the middle. I read Worth Dying For before 61 Hours and never grasped the magnitude of the explosion Reacher was recovering from. Did I miss an explanation of how he survived the jet fuel explosion? I thought the two dead guys by the overturned truck would have to be explained. Also how could he have walked away in that cold???
Meg I'm pretty sure that you can't read these books as though Jack is an actual human. He's sort of half super-hero. Child makes the events almost possibl …more I'm pretty sure that you can't read these books as though Jack is an actual human. Child makes the events almost possible but you need a good pinch of suspended disbelief. I've read them all and enjoy them like a more literary 'The Phantom' comic.
Aprennace Sure, They can be read in any order. Just watch for conversations about coffee and the inevitable appearance of the Crown Vic in every one of them. Ki …more Sure, They can be read in any order. Kind of like the appearance of Superman in every episode of Seinfeld. See all 7 questions about Worth Dying For…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews.
Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. Sort order. Oct 25, Hoshall rated it it was amazing. Lee Child just keeps getting better and better! Eagerly awaiting the next installment of the Jack Reacher saga. May 30, James Thane rated it really liked it Shelves: suspense. Happily, Jack Reacher has survived the catastrophic explosion that ended his last adventure, 61 Hours. This gives nothing away for those who haven't read the book. The fact that there is a fifteenth Reacher book is a pretty good sign that he must have survived the fourteenth, although that was not entirely clear at the time.
Jack now finds himself out in the Middle-of-Nowhere, Nebraska, still recuperating from his injuries and attempting to find a ride to Virginia. As often happens in these boo Happily, Jack Reacher has survived the catastrophic explosion that ended his last adventure, 61 Hours.
As often happens in these books, a small and totally unexpected incident propels Reacher into a major and life-threatening adventure. In this case, Reacher meets a drunken doctor in a bar.
The doctor gets a phone call from a woman who has a nose bleed that will not stop. The doctor refuses to go treat the woman and so Reacher, ever the White Knight, compels him to do so. Once at the woman's home, Reacher quickly deduces that the woman is the victim of domestic abuse. Once the doctor has treated the woman, Reacher goes looking for the husband and punches his lights out to teach the guy a lesson.
But, inevitably of course, Reacher has inadvertently stumbled into the briar patch. The husband, in concert with his father and his two uncles, have a stranglehold on the farmers and other residents who inhabit this small and isolated corner of the world.
They have intimidated and dominated the kindly folk much in the same way that the Rykers had earlier intimidated and dominated the sod busters of Wyoming before Shane came to the rescue. In essence, virtually all of the Reacher novels are modern versions of Jack Schaefer's classic novel. Our hero, who has powers beyond those of most mortal men, rides into town usually on a bus or in a car where he has hitched a ride, rather than on a stallion , and discovers some fundamental injustice.
Often the townfolk recognize that the injustice exists, but they are too weak or too scared or too disorganized to do anything about it. Reacher analyzes the problem, steps up to the plate and deals with the bad guys thus saving the town. He then rides off into the sunset or in this case, actually, into the sunrise.
Thus far, no sweet little boy has been dogging his heels begging him to stay, although occasionally there is a beautiful and usually well-sated woman who wishes that he would.
The villains in this book are among the best that Child has created, and they have a dark secret that is well hidden through virtually the entire book. There is also an old mystery that needs to be solved here and the result is another Reacher book that you can't put down. It consists of 62 tightly-written chapters, each of which just short enough to convince you that you can read "just one more" before giving it up for the night.
Then before you know it, it's three o'clock in the morning and your wife is waking up again for the fifth or sixth time wondering when in the hell you're going to turn the damned light off so that she can get some sleep. By then, though, you're far enough along that she's just going to have to tough it out for another thirty minutes or so. View all 12 comments. Feb 21, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: fiction , 21th-century , literature , crime-mystery , british.
Feb 14, Jennifer rated it it was ok Recommends it for: fans of Reacher. Shelves: read I have mixed feelings upon finishing this latest Lee Child novel. Slipping into the world of Jack Reacher lots of violence and very little angst is comforting and familiar. Child has a formula going in many of his books and for the most part, it works pretty well.
Jack Reacher comes into a small town in Nebraska but it could be Montana or Texas or anywhere else with wide open spaces and sparse populations and discovers that something is not right. Even though he is on his way to somewhere el I have mixed feelings upon finishing this latest Lee Child novel. Even though he is on his way to somewhere else in this novel, he's headed to Virginia to meet an important character from 61 Hours , he decides to stay and get involved.
In Worth Dying For , Reacher's decision to drive a slightly drunk doctor to take care of a battered woman leads him to cross the Duncans, a family who controls this Nebraska county economically and otherwise with an iron fist.
The events this one action set in motion are complex, layered, and ultimately bloody. That said, I felt a bit uneasy in how the whole plot plays out and the phrase, revenge porn, again comes to mind. These are all bad, bad men but the fact that Reacher kills without remorse feels like a fantasy of what being a cop or a soldier is like. I think of Arkady Renko and Dave Robochieoux sp? In this novel, Jack Reacher is like a robot or an avenging angel, playing at humanity.
I rooted for him the whole way but then felt kind of sick about it afterwards. View all 10 comments. Mar 28, Barbara rated it liked it. In this 15th book in the 'Jack Reacher' series, the steely hero intervenes in a domestic abuse situation, and draws the ire of the 'town mafia.
While having coffee in a motel bar where the local doctor happens to be drinking, a call comes in - Eleanor Duncan has a nosebleed. The doc refuses to respond so Reacher - suspecting In this 15th book in the 'Jack Reacher' series, the steely hero intervenes in a domestic abuse situation, and draws the ire of the 'town mafia. The doc refuses to respond so Reacher - suspecting domestic abuse - insists on driving the doc to Eleanor's house and finds she has indeed been hit in the face.
Reacher proceeds to locate Eleanor's husband Seth at a steakhouse and breaks his nose. After this all hell breaks loose. Seems the Duncans Seth, his father and two uncles have a stranglehold on the local farming community and have completely intimated everybody who lives there.
The Duncans aren't about to take any flak from Reacher and tell a couple of 'cornhuskers' - former college football players the Duncans hire to be bodyguards and enforcers - to get rid of Reacher. The two cornhuskers don't succeed. Moreover the Duncans are involved in illegal trafficking through Canada and are in trouble because a shipment they promised is late.
Since they're already furious at Reacher the Duncans tell their customers that the shipment is delayed because Reacher is sniffing around. Reacher is very tough, however, and his encounters with these creeps generally ends badly for the would-be assassins. Lee Child does a good job describing scenes of combat and carnage and one has to admire Reacher's capabilities with his fists and any tools or weapons he happens to get his hands on. While all this is going on Reacher hears about the disappearance of a local young girl twenty-five years ago and decides to find out what happened to her - not so easy while so many people are out to kill him.
Most of the story is about Reacher playing cat and mouse with the people chasing him and there's a lot of violence and unpleasant behavior. However Reacher is very clever and figures everything out in the end. There are some surprises and twists in this exciting thriller. Recommended for fans of the series. Dec 01, Lewis Weinstein rated it it was amazing Shelves: crime-and-thrillers.
Another great Reacher. If you like Reacher, that's all you need to know. View all 3 comments. Nov 12, carol. Shelves: male-lead , thriller. Three and a half stars. While sticking to the basic formula of Reacher kicks bad guys' butts, Child manages to change it up a little.
In some ways, Reacher's an anachronism, and if serious modern technology was used with strategy against him, he'd be in trouble. It starts to look as though he will be outnumbered when professional enforcers get added into the mix of local thugs, but view spoiler [ part of the problem is solved by them turning on each other.
There's no honor among thieves, I gues Three and a half stars. There's no honor among thieves, I guess. He doesn't even have to follow the lead, since the fifth man is lying in wait to kill him. I felt like that was somewhat of a hollow discovery; more like the solution presented itself without any real work. As for the barn being the site of the house of horrors--really? No child since then has snuck into the barn? Local law enforcement didn't check abandoned wells and structures?
It seemed more like it was a prop to justify Reacher's killing; these people were so awful that no judge, jury or trial was needed, since anyone would agree they were evil. I think the extreme evilness Child describes and Reacher's cold-blooded targeted assassination left me with an unsettled feeling at the end instead of the "Hoo-rah" that one hopes for. View 2 comments. Lots of bad guys for Reacher to beat up. It was well done and lots of fun.
The Duncan clan has terrified the entire county into submission. They require all farms to use their trucking company and pay high rates. They have former football players on staff as thugs to bully the locals. They are waiting for a shipment of something illegal to arrive which they sell to a guy in Las Vegas. Twenty-five years ago the daughter of one of the locals disappeared. It was never solved.
The ending was excellent. Reacher is like a comic book super hero. You need to suspend disbelief.
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