Jack Reacher leaves Hope, Colorado, in his usual way; on
foot, and soon arrives in Despair. But he isn't there long.
He's run out of town after he has a single cup of coffee.
And it wasn't even very good coffee. That strikes a wrong
note with Jack -- something strange is going on in Despair,
and judging by the townspeople's reaction to him, they all
seem to be in on it. Well, nobody escorts Jack to the edge
of town and tells him to hit the road without cause. He'll
find out exactly what's wrong with Despair, if it's the
last thing he does -- and this time, it might be.
Jack Reacher is in fine form in NOTHING TO LOSE. This story
has fascinating characters that work very well with Jack
and the plot is inspired. This latest adventure of Jack's
could have come straight from today's headlines. Action,
tension and a thirst for justice, Mr. Child delivers it
all. A very good read.
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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