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Nothing to Lose
From Hope to Despair.
Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road.
All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line.
But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape.
No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity.
What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide?
Between two small towns in Colorado, nothing but twelve miles of empty road.
All Jack Reacher wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies, a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line.
But Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape.
No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity.
What are the secrets the locals seem so determined to hide?
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Published March 24, 2008
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Lee Child
444 books34.6k followersLee 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.
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.
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September 27, 2025
Jack Reacher is a most unconventional man. When told to leave a town, he insists on staying, even if it’s a forgettable settlement in the middle of nowhere. Why? Because Jack Reacher knows that no one asks you to leave unless they have something to hide.
Thus, he establishes himself in a neighbouring town and begins his investigation. Naturally, he beats up anyone who stands in his way, even those who are clearly gravely ill, unable to stand on their own feet, and coughing up blood before they even have the chance to meet Jack Reacher. Why? Because Jack Reacher.
And of course, he doesn’t miss the opportunity to sleep with the stunning policewoman (from the neighbouring town), just moments after she has taken him to a clinic to see her husband, a soldier who has returned from Iraq as a vegetable due to an explosion. Why? Because Jack Reacher.
In the end, due to the plot, Lee Child cannot give us the necessary bloody combat sequence, but he compensates the semi-literate reader with twenty tonnes of trinitrotoluene, exploding almost inside the (paranoid) villain’s “where thy sun doth not shineth”.
And as you may have already guessed, once Jack Reacher has literally flattened another corner of America, he departs. I suspect he’s been recruited by the US Land Registry to flatten the country for their convenience, but it’s still early days (the twelfth book of twenty-seven and counting), so we’ll have to wait and see.
Until the next book... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMRRRRG!
Thus, he establishes himself in a neighbouring town and begins his investigation. Naturally, he beats up anyone who stands in his way, even those who are clearly gravely ill, unable to stand on their own feet, and coughing up blood before they even have the chance to meet Jack Reacher. Why? Because Jack Reacher.
And of course, he doesn’t miss the opportunity to sleep with the stunning policewoman (from the neighbouring town), just moments after she has taken him to a clinic to see her husband, a soldier who has returned from Iraq as a vegetable due to an explosion. Why? Because Jack Reacher.
In the end, due to the plot, Lee Child cannot give us the necessary bloody combat sequence, but he compensates the semi-literate reader with twenty tonnes of trinitrotoluene, exploding almost inside the (paranoid) villain’s “where thy sun doth not shineth”.
And as you may have already guessed, once Jack Reacher has literally flattened another corner of America, he departs. I suspect he’s been recruited by the US Land Registry to flatten the country for their convenience, but it’s still early days (the twelfth book of twenty-seven and counting), so we’ll have to wait and see.
Until the next book... HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMRRRRG!
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