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Chargement... Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, No. 12) (original 2008; édition 2008)par Lee Child
Information sur l'oeuvreNothing to Lose par Lee Child (2008)
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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 arrives in Colorado and discovers two towns; one good and one bad. He proceeds to rip apart the bad one with help from a cop of the good one. There's an evil CEO cult leader with henchmen. Satisfactory read. ( ) (2008)Reacher comes thru Hope and Despair Colorado and finds that the towns' names are appropriate. Despair is home to a mysterious factory that is taking in old recycled cars but turns out is producing dirty bombs. The owner is an end-times religious nut that wants to bring on Armageddon. Still another good Reacher tale. He hooks up with a sheriff from Hope as the romantic interest.KIRKUS REVIEWIn Jack Reacher's whiz-bang latest (Bad Luck and Trouble, 2007, etc.), small-town cops bust him for vagrancybig mistake!Despair, Colo.: population 2,692, and none of them with the sense they were born with. Because Reacher warned them, nobody can say he didn't. There he was, just passing through, seated harmlessly at the restaurant table, wanting only a cup of coffee, when the four deputies, ?each a useful size,? appeared in the doorway, clearly intent on seeing the back of him. Says Reacher to the restaurant's surly proprietor, ? ?If I get a cup of coffee I'll walk out of here. If I don't get a cup of coffee, these guys can try to throw me out, and you'll spend the rest of the day cleaning blood off the floorÂ' ? Broken bones ensueÂ¥none of them Reacher'sÂ¥but when a riot gun is added to the argument, Reacher allows himself to be arrested. The fact is his curiosityÂ¥ever a major component in the Reacher personaÂ¥requires that he stick around until he uncovers the something he suspects is rotten in Despair. Enter the lady deputy sheriff from Hope, the tiny town that borders Despair. Hope, of course, is as attractive as Despair is forbidding. Ditto Deputy Vaughan, who provides another compelling reason for Reacher to bide a bit. They join forces in an investigation that takes a series of twisty turns involving, among others, a buck-chasing religious zealot and some vexatious conspirators in Pentagon corridors of power. Answers garnered, curiosity slaked, Reacher arrives at a critical moment. He must now say to Vaughan, albeit ruefully, what those who know him best always knew was inevitable: ? ?I don't do permanent.' ?When, single-handedly, Reacher takes out eight huskies in a bar-room brawl, a million plus fans will grin happily, knowing that all's right with the action-lit world.Pub Date: June 3rd, 2008ISBN: 978-0-385-34056-4Page count: 416ppPublisher: DelacorteReview Posted Online: June 24th, 2010Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 15th, 2008 aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Est contenu dansThe Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow par Lee Child Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansEst en version abrégée dansPrix et récompensesDistinctions
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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