Worth Dying For: A Jack Reacher Novel
By Lee Child
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A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown
“Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer.”—Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly
There’s deadly trouble in the corn country 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 case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can’t let go.
The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment that’s already late—and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. 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 keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.
Lee Child
Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.
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Reviews for Worth Dying For
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Somewhere I read this was the best Reacher book and I hadn’t read it so here I went. In a nutshell this was very good and while I couldn’t say it was his best I’ve read, and I’ve read quite a few, it’s sure way up there.All Reacher books draw their flavour and atmosphere from the locale and this is no exception - and cold and very bleak Nebraska desolate prairie not quite a town. Without giving anything away there’s a few really bad eggs there making it hell for the cowed locals. Until Jack gets there.There’s always violence with Jack and there’s plenty in this book. Pretty well from the get-go and really the baddies are such low life scum one applauds! The eventual crime is a modern one and really doesn’t become evident until late in the book. There isn’t quite the amount of circumspection and inner thoughts in this one as I’m used to but this isn’t just action - indeed shared with all other Reachers.If you like Lee Child’s Jack then this is a must read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One of my favorite Reacher books of late. Kind of Lee Childs with a touch of Elmore Leonard. Cleaner writing then the last couple of books. Reacher is much more Reacher then in the last several entry's. Plot is no different then most Reacher books. Jack ends up in town and gets involved in a situation that doesn't directly involve him. Bunch of bad guys get beat up and Reacher rides out of town. This time the town is in Nebraska. Now I want to catch up with the whole series.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Typical Jack Reacher criminal investigation novel. Gripping.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5While still good, this is one of the less exciting Jack Reacher novels. In "Worth Dying For," Jack ends up in a small town in Nebraska where it becomes quickly evident that most inhabitants are subservient to the Duncans, three brothers and a son. The Duncans own a transportation company; if they decide not to haul the farmers' crops, the farmers are SOL. But there's more to the story than racketeering. What the Duncans are doing is far more heinous.When Jack starts asking questions and poking around, the Duncans send their hired guns after him. Much bone-breaking and blood-letting ensues, as is the norm for Jack and his adventures. In the midst of all of this, there's a 25 year-old unsolved crime he aims to figure out.The flat Nebraska winter environment plays a major role in this book. Unfortunately, the story is nearly as bland and featureless as is the landscape. Again, it's not a bad book, there are just better Reacher books out there.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Our hero is in rural Nebraska on his way to Virginia. He only intends to spend one night and then move on but he soon finds himself helping a woman with a bloody nose - maybe a victim of domestic abuse. Jack soon finds that it is part of a much bigger problem and at the forefront is the entirely unlikable Duncan clan. they own everything and everyone in the town and don't intend to let Jack Reacher interfere with that. Our hero just seems to attract trouble no matter how unintentional.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A very violent book. The plot is not fully revealed until the last 10%. More so than his other novels, the subject matter is darker & more repulsive. A well written page turner. I found it hard to put down.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Haven't tired of Reacher or his 'adventures' yet. Child hasn't dropped his standards or run out of inventive ways to keep Jack busy.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reacher once again stumbles into trouble, this time around after being dropped off from a hitched ride he stumbles into a motel bar where a doctor is refusing to make a house call to see a woman whose nose won't stop bleeding. After convincing the doctor to go, and driving him as he's drunk, we find out the woman has been beaten and naturally Reacher can't just let it go, and in doing so he opens a can of worms that leaves a string of bodies in its wake and changes the town forever.Whilst it seemed a bit more violent than the usual it wasn't abhorrently so, I do note that the female character in distress that ultimately sleeps with Reacher has been dispensed with these last two novels. I also have noted a prevalence of three point turns, or K turns as Childs writes, when discussing driving in recent books. As far as I recall previously characters just turned the car around, now they're frequently doing K turns.Overall, one of the better books in the series and certainly filled with action and an entertaining escalating story. Enough background there to be read as a standalone or out of order, but fits well in the series continuing on from 61 Hours.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5according to the independent on the cover, if anyone can put this book down after a few pages they shouldn't be reading thrillers at all. well., i guess i am in that category. i don't like the continuous violence and malevolent atmosphere, just leaves me with a bad feeling.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Worth Dying For is a well researched and written book. It is a sad story involving a very small farming community and the greedy people who appointed themselves in charge. Jack Reacher was able to help the people. The book received four stars in this review.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reacher (surprise! he's alive!) has made it as far south as Nebraska before getting caught up in the drama of a group of farmers being terrorized by a local crime clan.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good to very good thriller. Unusual amount of graphic carnage in this Reacher outing, with our hero racking up an impressive body count and solving an intriguing mystery. Has the usual flaws of this series: All the characters still talk EXACTLY the same (i.e., an Iranian character actually uses the phrase "dollars to donuts" - come on), and Reacher is near-omniscient in addition to being an unstoppable physical force, which kind of makes the outcome inevitable. But I liked this book, The Reacher character is awesome, I like this series and I do keep coming back.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This wasn't my favourite Reacher book, it was just okay.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have to say I prefer it when he kills people who are actively trying to kill him. Executing people, even really, really bad people who deserve to die can be hard to swallow. I might have enjoyed this more, but it was my first library download on Overdrive, and I had to download it several times to get all the parts, and I wouldn't realize I was missing one until I suddenly had no idea what was going on and realized several chapters had been skipped.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fast-moving from the word go, as the novels in this series are. Very edge of the seat. Thoroughly enjoyed the read.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Worth dying for is worth reading as prequel to Never Go Back.
Reacher gets his nose groken which drives subsequent plot devices in following novels to Never go Back. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another solid Jack Reacher novel from Lee Child. This story is a bit too much of a stretch and a bit more violent than other Reacher novels, but Child really knows how to spin a tale, keeping the reader engaged in the story and in the unraveling mystery. Strong, but not quite the page-turner as other Reacher novels.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another excellent book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Reacher assists some farmers and a motel owner from the local land baron who is taking lots of money from them and running illicit human trafficing. They are also involved with murder.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ooo, a very good Jack Reacher story. I've liked all of them, but some of them are certainly a little lazier than others. This one's not lazy at all, a pretty good story, great characters, and, well, the evil is indeed dealt with. And Jack is still on his way to Virginia. Not much to do at all with the cliffhanger ending of the previous novel, but a great explanation as to what happened. (And that is a very short scene in this book.)
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was not nearly as good as the previous, 61 Hours. I think the author hacked this one together just to sell it quickly. The previous book left readers with a cliff-hanger and the publisher/author knew people would buy no matter what. There is no character development. Writing-wise this was pure disappointment, but as with all Child books it was a page-turner so I finished it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5While investigating a decades-old kidnapping case, drifter Jack Reacher draws the ire of the Duncan family, a local clan that has been terrorizing their neighbors for years. However, the Duncans' connection with organized crime extends far beyond rural Nebraska, giving Reacher a shot at taking down a deadly criminal enterprise.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jack Reacher saves the day! Again! This time he's in some out of the way little town in Nebraska and he soon learns that everybody in the town is afraid of the Dungans. People are routinely beaten to be kept in line and Jack's introduction to the problem is through driving the scared drunken doctor to the house of Seth Dungan to attend to the battered wife. Jack can't resist getting involved before things are settled and he's on his way to Virginia to meet Susan.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Powerful writing, excellent plot, nice gradual reveal of the crime that was committed 25 years ago and its residual impact on the present. Some scenes are among the most intense but realistic scenes I've ever read. The only flaw I noticed is Child seemed a little self-indulgent with certain scenes, using far more words than he needed to convey the essence of that scene, but his writing is so excellent and so entertaining I didn't mind that for example, he used many hundreds of words to describe a fight that only took a few seconds.
Jack Reacher is an impressive protagonist. The kind of guy you don't want to cross, but if he's on your side, you couldn't ask for a better ally.
Highly recommended. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better than the previous few. It picked up almost right after 61 Hours, instead of being set a year or so later like normal. And it broke the formula in other ways, too. I enjoyed it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Read one Jack Reacher novel and you've sort of read them all. But, they are entertaining.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Them Cornhuskers oughta stuck to huskin' corn, cuz they shore ain't no match for Jack Reacher! He can outthink and outfight and just plain outCOOL everyone who tangles with him. This one was very satisfying. It was reminiscent of the older Reacher novels---totally unbelievable and all the more fun because of it. Jack gets to spout off a lot of great quips in this one, too. Wouldn't we all love to be able to think of those perfect comebacks in every stressful encounter? This story will make you want to avoid Nebraska for at least the next few lifetimes, unless you like your landscapes FLAT and featureless.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I need a Jack Reacher break but was good. Does anyone know if he actually ever makes it to Virginia and meets Susan? I might read that one!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Ever been to an ice skating rink and thought there were so many skaters on the ice that you couldn't enjoy watching any of them, but you stayed anyway because you didn't have anywhere else to go, and besides, you know you can count on the Zamboni being fun to watch at the end?
Reading this one, after the tightly written 61 hours, was sort of like that. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I like all the Jack Reacher novels I've read, so far. This one became a little draggy near the end. I was anxious for the bad guys to get caught.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Small town Nebraska, where everyone knows everyone else, and everyone knows everyone else's business, too. Like most small towns, there's a ruling class. Unfortunately for them, the youngest has a penchant for wife-beating and Reacher just happens to stumble over it. Unfortunately for them, they decide to do something about him. Unfortunately for them, they have a secret they'll kill to protect. And unfortunately for them, they picked the wrong guy to mess with.Couldn't wait to find out how Reacher survived the surefire immolation that was supposed to have consumed him in 61 Hours. And then I couldn't wait to find out what was the heck was going on in rural Nebraska.