Lee Child Collection: Killing Floor, Echo Burning, The Visitor, Tripwire, Die Trying, Without Fail, Persuader, One Shot, The Enemy, The Hard Way, Bad Luck And Trouble

by Lee Child

Genres: Thriller, Fiction

About the author

Lee Child was born October 29th, 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.

Killing Floor was an immediate success and launched the series which has grown in sales and impact with every new installment. The first Jack Reacher movie, based on the novel One Shot and starring Tom Cruise and Rosamund Pike, was released in December 2012.

Lee has three homes—an apartment in Manhattan, a country house in the south of France, and whatever airplane cabin he happens to be in while traveling between the two. In the US he drives a supercharged Jaguar, which was built in Jaguar's Browns Lane plant, thirty yards from the hospital in which he was born.

Lee spends his spare time reading, listening to music, and watching the Yankees, Aston Villa, or Marseilles soccer. He is married with a grown-up daughter. He is tall and slim, despite an appalling diet and a refusal to exercise.

Reviews

[Marjorie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe girls aren't supposed to appreciate Jack Reacher's automatic violence in the face of evil, but Lee Child's hard driving, riveting narrative makes this series a hero saga that holds its own with the best crime writing out there. You simply can't put it down until the end and then you wish you had slowed down. You want more. You need more.

And I don't know a Reacher fan anywhere who wants to sit through Tom Cruise trying to be a tough guy. If the movie fails, blame the casting director. He's just wrong.

[Michael Madrid · Rating 4 out of 5]

Going to read the entire series! I'm hooked on Reacher!

[Melenia · Rating 5 out of 5]

#1 -- Reread June 2017 (audio book) -- I love the Jack Reacher books! So much so that I'm reading them again lol. I so enjoy listening to the audio for this series and love that they use the same voice actor (Dick Hill) for all of the books thus far. I enjoyed most things about this book and the one or two things I didn't were easily overlooked. So much o that at the moment I can't remember what they are. I remember thinking during the last disc 'why didn't he just do this?' but I can't remember now what I wanted him to do, so I qualify that as a keeper. :)
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#1 -- July 2014 (hard copy) -- Good book. (four star)

#2 -- Pretty good. (four star)

#3 -- Aug/Sept 2017 -- Audio by Dick Hill -- I enjoyed this reread; however, I am starting to pick out inconsistencies in the series and that is slightly bothering me. Also the heavy abuse in this book bothers me quite a bit as well and that is why it only gets four stars.

#3 -- Dec 2015 -- Enjoyable read (four star)

#4 -- 8.2017 -- I enjoyed it, but def not his best (3 star)

#4 -- 1.2016 --Eh decent

#5 -- June 2017 -- Audio Book (Dick Hill) -- I enjoyed this book again. I love all the Jack Reacher books, but this is not one of the best one's in the series. Both the main female characters are annoying throughout the whole book... but I still enjoyed it and would recommend it to those who already love Reacher stories.

#5 -- Feb 2016 -- Overall, I really enjoyed this book. Yes Alice got very annoying towards the end of the book, but skimming a bit fixed that and the other main female character was horrible as well. Otherwise Jack Reacher is awesome as always! And the little girl was so adorable! (Four Star)

#6 -- Pretty great read. (Four star)

#7 -- Decent read (4 Stars)

#8 -- I really enjoyed this book except for all of the 'I said nothing. She said nothing'. That was annoying. I definitely recommend this book. (5 stars)

#9 -- Reread July 2017 -- Dick Hill audio book -- loved it so much!!!! (5 stars)

#9 -- Read March 5-6, 2012 -- great book

#10 -- Pretty great read (five stars)

#11 -- Aug 2017 -- Audio Book with Dick Hill -- I loved this book even more the 2nd time around. (5 stars)

#11 -- March 2015 -- Really enjoyed this book

[Paul Markham · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had finished the latest Reacher book and not really enjoyed it. I have read all of them but I wasn’t sure if I was bored with Reacher or whether the books weren’t as good as they were previously. So I went back to the Killing Floor and re-read it. It was just as good as I remember it so that answers the question: they don’t write em like they used to.

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read 'The Visitor' out of this collection. I enjoyed the action and suspense, although some elements of the story were predictable. I would read another read from the Jack Reacher series.

[Sarah]

Only The Visitor read. This is not on the app as a single title. Absolutely gripping throughout but then let down by a preposterous ending!

[Bob Box · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read in 1997. The Killing Floor was Child's first novel featuring Jack Reacher. Of course I went on to read all of his Reacher books until a couple of years ago when I stopped.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

Have read all of these individually over five years. Cracking stories.

[hanka · Rating 2 out of 5]

as for THE VISITOR: sadly i must stick to my earlier comment: the least compelling book of the entire JR series so far. took me ages to finish cause i had to let it rest many times, not really willing to get back to it, as i wasn't hooked in the story line at all. i finished the book only for the sake of old times when JR stories were way better than this lame one. it doesn't mean im done with JR though, looking for the next in line on my bookshelf, hopes up its gonna be better than THE VISITOR!

[Len Gilmer]

I didnt read the Visitor. Aside from that I thought this was an interesting and entertaining book series. Echo Burning was my least favorite on the list. The stories are not easily predictable and few if any characters appear more than once. Next to Jason Bourne is Jack Reacher my only disappointment lies with the casting of Tom Cruise in the upcoming movie "One Shot"
RANKINGS
Killing Floor
One Shot
tripwire
Bad luck and trouble
Persuader
The Hard Way
Echo Burning

[Agnes Ross · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was totally enraptured with Jack Reacher. "The Killing Floor" was the perfect way to start, then "Echo Burning" I didn't enjoy as much because I was creeped out by the idea of living in a compound waiting to go to war with the federal government. But all the rest were really great, with "Bad Luck and Trouble" and "Die Trying" being exceptional.

[Kylie G · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've just finished reading the visitor and what a cracking good read it was. I've read the first three books of jack reacher as well as this one. to be honest the first two didn't really do it for me but this series is just getting better. who did it was a complete surprise to me. a thoroughly good reaffirms.

[Roger Stephen Clark · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read only The Visitor. Not one of Lee Child's better stories, I thought. I picked the MO pretty early although I didn't guess the perpetrator so soon.
Several women are somehow killed and left in a bath of green paint. The Method of killing them left no signs and Reacher had to rack his brain to work it out - which he did - of course!!

[Jen · Rating 5 out of 5]

this one is great! one of the better ones (if you can get 'better' ones with Reacher books). i love how it involves all the other people (won't spoil for people who havne't read it yet) but yeah! very smart as usual

[Jasmin]

The Killing floor was quite good, I really liked the main character 'Jack Reacher' straight away !
He seems like a man who can look after himself and is very capable of taking care of business !
And of course he gets the girl :)

[Craig S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

These are all excellent. Killing Floor, Trip Wire and The Enemy remain the best—for raw intensity. “Jack Reacher” is one of the best characters in this genre ever created.

[Debbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jack Reacher rocks!

[Michael Tyrer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read three Reacher books and I'm going through them via audio because it's easier in my current situation , but up to now pure entertainment .

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Without Fail is about 12 years old - an early Jack Reacher book. It has been a long time since I read one of these and thoroughly enjoyed it

[Fiona Robinson]

My first meeting of Jack Reacher, it will not be the last! Loved it

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

Listened to The Killing Floor on audiobook, it was okay but it felt dated.

[James Boyle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not Tom cruise!