61 hours

a Reacher novel

383 pages

English language

Published Dec. 24, 2010 by Delacorte Press.

ISBN:
978-0-385-34058-8
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OCLC Number:
436030133

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3 stars (1 review)

Jack Reacher is back.The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed--but so is the woman whose life he'll risk …

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reviewed 61 Hours by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #14)

The title doesn't have a lot to do with the plot

3 stars

Another very standard Reacher novel. Stranded in Bolton South Dakota, Reacher stumbles into a case against a biker gang that's been manufacturing meth in an abandoned military facility west of town. A witness has stepped forward willing to testify to seeing a biker hand over a brick of meth. The town has to keep her safe until the trial.

The complicating factor is that, like many rural towns in the western US, Bolton bid for and won the site of a massive prison complex. And if the prison has a riot or an escape, every single member of the Bolton police department is to drop whatever they are doing and assist the prison. Even if what they are doing is protecting a witness under threat. The cops can't protect her, but Reacher can. Or should be able to. Can he keep her alive the approximately 61 hours until she needs …

Subjects

  • Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
  • Retired military personnel -- Fiction
  • Witnesses -- Protection -- Fiction
  • Assassins -- Fiction
  • Winter storms -- Fiction
  • South Dakota -- Fiction