Echo Burning
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- ISBN13: 9780515143829
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Loner Jack Reacher gets a lift from seductive Carmen Greer, but it comes with a few hitches: a treacherous spouse, a tiny town with secrets, and a plot. Now Reacher’s part of it, and before the sun sets, the ride could cost Jack and Carmen their lives.Amazon.com Review
Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI–in fact, Reacher’s even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a terrible character reflect twice about tangling with him. And he’s spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to run in the gray zone if that’s what it takes to save the honest maiden, punish the terrible guys, and right any additional wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings. Echo Burning is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who’s so concerned about commitment to anything–a woman, possessions, a stable take up–that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he’s the kind of justice-seeking guy you’d want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can’t get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your ancient man.
Reacher’s sympathetic, but he’s not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into gorgeous Carmen Greer’s orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the spouse who’s about to be unrestricted from jail and, according to Carmen, who’s about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that’s owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family tree, which despises Carmen because she’s Mexican and tolerates her only because she’s Sloop Greer’s wife and the mother of his child. The expected slaughter ensues, but it’s Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher’s convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after additional evidence comes to light that suggests there’s more–and less–to her miserable tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it’s your first encounter with Child’s work, be sure to check out his backlist–Running Blind, Tripwire, etc. –Jane Adams
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
How many times should an leader inform the reader that it is hot…I quit counting after the first fifty. What tripe!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Read all the Lee Child novels because they are trully fantastic. They captivate and excite, and they most certainly do not feel like a waste of time.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I am a Lee Child fan and have read all his preceding novels to Echo Burning. This book never gets off the ground until the last 100 pages. What a huge disappointment. Skip this one.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Because of an enthusiastic review I read somewhere (in the New York Times, of all places, as I recall) I bought a couple of Lee Child’s “Jack Reacher” thrillers expecting something special. And really, the Reacher character himself could be fantastic… if he weren’t handled like a cartoon character. The plotting is… well, like a mediocre TV show. And the factual research is highly suspect. Because ECHO BURNING is set in Texas, my home state, I could clearly see how poorly researched it was. On the first 8 pages, I counted 3 obvious mistakes. Example: a lumber mill in Lubbock, where it’s hard to even find a tree, let alone a forest? Another example, later in the book: on a state highway in rural West Texas, 100 cars pass in 5 minutes! Let’s see, that’s one car every 3 seconds in a depopulated area where you might be lucky to see one car in 5 minutes. And on and on, such mistakes are too copious to mention here and have an irritating cumulative effect. Perhaps if, like the leader, you’re a Brit living in New York, you won’t notice many of them, but beware what you’re reading is factually dubious. And some of the mistakes are simply caused by bone idle thinking, such as having a character facing the early morning sun but feeling the sun’s heat on his back! If you reflect such details don’t matter, then fine. But if you reflect thrillers & mysteries should meticulously attend to facts as well as offer the reader a credible plot, then read a name else.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5