Worth Dying For

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Lee Child: Worth Dying For (2010, Transworld Publishers Limited)

544 pages

English language

Published 2010 by Transworld Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4070-8313-1
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3 stars (1 review)

There’s deadly trouble in the corn county of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go.

The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they’re just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.

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reviewed Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #15)

Reacher trips over yet another massive criminal conspiracy

3 stars

Reacher stumbles into a rural Nebraska county while hitchhiking away from the events in 61 Hours. While drinking coffee at a rural motel bar, he overhears an alcoholic doctor turn down visiting a woman who is experiencing a nosebleed. Reacher keeps his nose out of lots of other people's business, but he suspects the woman is a domestic violence victim and badgers the doctor into visiting, with Reacher along for the ride.

The woman turns out to be the wife of a local county heavy, so Reacher is off on another adventure battling local crime bosses, much like a one man A-Team. Before the end of the book, Reacher aims to end their control, at least the terrorizing people into silence part.

Competence porn at its most ok.

Subjects

  • Fiction, suspense
  • Reacher, jack (fictitious character), fiction
  • Missing persons, fiction
  • Nebraska, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, general