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Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher — a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose — goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops — the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded — waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair — against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him — and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.

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“Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”People

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"Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series." Cleveland Plain Dealer

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"Colossal. Earthshaking. Stupendous...Jack Reacher is one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape." New York Times

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"Jack Reacher's whiz-bang latest..." Kirkus Reviews

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"...[T]he action is so grounded in everyday details that instead of laughing it all off as silly, we find ourselves responding on a deeply emotional, archetypal level." Booklist

Synopsis:

All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee when he stops in a small town in Colorado. What he gets instead is big trouble. In Child's #1 New York Times bestseller, Reacher goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

Synopsis:

Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher cant find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on. Theyre picking on the wrong guy.

Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?

With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?

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About the Author

Lee Child is the author of ten Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, the Barry Award Winner The Enemy, and One Shot, which has been optioned for a major motion picture by Paramount Pictures. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry Awards for Best First Mystery. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in thirty-nine territories. Child, a native of England and former television writer, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his eleventh Jack Reacher thriller.
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Chris Horne, April 6, 2009 (view all comments by Chris Horne)
In this latest Jack Reacher thriller, the ex-military loner finds himself caught between Hope and Despair. Colorado, that is. Two rural towns named by pioneers for an optical illusion that makes the Rockies appear near from Hope and far from Despair.

Hitchhiking west from Hope, on his meandering way to San Diego, Reacher encounters no traffic heading to Despair and walks the whole 17 miles. Only to be clapped into jail as a vagrant after refusing to leave town and smacking down a couple of menacing deputies. Despair is not a hospitable place.

But Jack Reacher is not a biddable man. And now he's curious.

Planning his next trip with a bit more care and the help of Hope's attractive young deputy, Vaughan, Reacher slips through the desert at night, circling the huge scrap recycling plant that gives the company town its reason for being. Not only is the place vast, it's enclosed with state-of-the-art unscalable walls and down the road is a ship-shape military police post.

But it's on his stealthy way back through the desert that he stumbles - literally - over the emaciated corpse of a young man, ratcheting up the stakes. Teaming up with Hope's deputy, who has issues of her own, Reacher ferrets out Despair's secrets - missing young men, the plant owner's nightly flights, over-the-top security, strange illnesses - with a mixture of mayhem, slick thinking, and stealth.

Non-stop action, dark, dry humor and a slightly prickly romance keep the pages turning. Child's prose is fast, fluid and crisp and the plot, while a bit outlandish, is no less believable for that. Reacher, a military personality with a lot of rules for himself, amazing skills, no possessions and footloose habits, is terrific fun, as always.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780440243670
Author:
Child, Lee
Publisher:
Dell Publishing Company
Author:
Child, Lee, Editor/Steve
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Espionage/Intrigue
Subject:
Conspiracies
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Subject:
Popular Fiction-Contemporary Thrillers
Copyright:
2008
Edition Description:
Mass market paperback
Series:
Jack Reacher Novels
Publication Date:
20090331
Binding:
MASS MARKET
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
544
Dimensions:
7.57x4.18x1.30 in. .64 lbs.
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Product details 544 pages Dell Publishing Company - English 9780440243670 Reviews:
"Review" by , “Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”
"Review" by , "Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series."
"Review" by , "Colossal. Earthshaking. Stupendous...Jack Reacher is one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape."
"Review" by , "Jack Reacher's whiz-bang latest..."
"Review" by , "...[T]he action is so grounded in everyday details that instead of laughing it all off as silly, we find ourselves responding on a deeply emotional, archetypal level."
"Synopsis" by , All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee when he stops in a small town in Colorado. What he gets instead is big trouble. In Child's #1 New York Times bestseller, Reacher goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.
"Synopsis" by ,

Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher cant find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on. Theyre picking on the wrong guy.

Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?

With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?
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