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Chargement... Make Me (with bonus short story Small Wars): A Jack Reacher Novelpar Lee Child
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Reacher smiled. Pretty much manna from heaven for that guy. Pretty much exactly what he was praying for every minute. To the letter. His exact words. Dear Lord, please send someone to shoot this bastard in the head right now. A miracle. He would go to mass on Sunday. ( ) Make Me is the latest of 20 "Jack Reacher" novels by Lee Child. I have read about 8 of them, and although they are a bit formulaic, this is one of the best, if not the best. Jack Reacher, according to the author, is 6’5” and 220-250 pounds, with a 50” chest. [You may wonder why he was played by Tom Cruise in the 2012 film “Jack Reacher.” Apparently this had something to do with Tom Cruise having the money to finance the film.] In any event, Reacher served in the Army 13 years, and mustered out at age 36 with the rank of major. Now he just roams around the United States investigating suspicious situations and usually killing people - but only bad guys. The novel begins with Reacher getting off a train in the God-forsaken town of Mother’s Rest, somewhere in Oklahoma, so far off the beaten trail that there is no cell phone service, not that Reacher carries a cell phone. There he encounters a stereotypically "slinky babe" and some very strange and unfriendly behavior from the local populace. Child does a nice job of keeping the reader in suspense about the nature of why the locals are so unfriendly and what the novel is actually about. As usual, Reacher handles the bad guys (killing 12 of them and putting two others in the hospital), and the good girl with military efficacy. We also learn a little about the dark part of the internet. I don’t see what the title has to do with the story, but that is a small cavil. (JAB) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieJack Reacher (20 & 19.5)
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE Stephen King calls Jack Reacher the coolest continuing series characterand now hes back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. Why is this town called Mothers Rest? Thats all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. Its a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and theres something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long hes plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the wayright back to where he started, in Mothers Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reachers rule is: If you want me to stop, youre going to have to make me. Praise for Make Me Childs Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee. Everything about it, starting with Reachers nose for bad news, is as strong as ever. . . . The big guys definitely on the upswing. The guy who writes about him is too.Janet Maslin, The New York Times Another winner . . . Theres a reason why Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre: He can take all these strange elements and clichs and make them compelling and original.Associated Press A superb thriller.New York Daily News Childs complete command of the story makes this thriller work brilliantly.Publishers Weekly (starred review) Ive read all twenty of Lee Childs novels. Maybe theres something wrong with me. But I cant wait for the twenty-first.Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker [The Reacher series] is the current gold standard in the genre. . . . In Make Me Lee Child delivers another Jack Reacher specialty; the total knockout.Dayton Daily News Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. But what keeps us coming backby the millionsis the chance to walk around in the skin of that big guy in the middle of everything.The Oregonian A dark thriller . . . Lee Childs Make Me, the twentieth in his wildly popular Jack Reacher series, delivers exactly what readers have come to expect from the perennial bestselling author: interesting characters, tight plots and page-turning action. . . . Readers wont be disappointed.Minneapolis Star Tribune Jack Reacher is back. . . . Readers new to this series will find this book a good starting point, and fans will be pleased to see Jack again.LibraryReads (Top Ten Pick) The reigning champ ups the... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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