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The major trouble with Lee Kid�s last Jack Reacher novel, 61 Hours, was the anti-climactic catastrophe that also managed to be a chip of a cliffhanger; I was thankful when I heard that Worth Dying For was coming out this year. Sadly, while the book continues on from the previous book, it�south more than of an reconsideration than anything else. Yes, he�s in a lot of pain from the previous events and he�s on the road to go to Virginia to finally come across upwards with the woman he was talking to on the phone in the final book, simply otherwise it has no bearing, before events dealt with by a brusque explanation when the md asks what happened to him. Worth Dying For is a decent novel past itself, though - except for the ending and the characters. What is Child�s problem with final his books?

Jack Reacher, the ex-military cop turned drifter, is making his way to Virginia from snowy Southward Dakota, but he ends up stopping in an extremely remote part of Nebraska - so remote that the nearest civilization is sixty miles further south. The surface area is under the sinister control of the Duncan family unit, a clan that has the few residents so terrorized that they can do pretty much anything without effect. When Eleanor Duncan, young Seth Duncan�s wife, calls the local dr. to help her after some other beating, Reacher has to basically guilt the doctor into going out to her business firm. Something every bit simple as this ends up involving Reacher in a fight against the Duncans, as well equally some international agents who are very interested in the cargo that the Duncan family is bringing in from Canada. With Reacher in the mode, commerce can�t continue. He has to be taken out.

Worth Dying For is difficult to put downwards. The story moves at a crackling pace; the chapters or story sections are fairly short, encouraging the �just 1 more chapter� feeling when you lot actually should be getting to bed. Child�due south prose style sucks y'all in with Parker-like dialogue just long descriptions of Reacher�s surroundings and actions. Unlike 61 Hours, wintertime itself is non a character in this novel. I occasionally even forgot that it was still wintertime as Reacher travelled around. Kid still manages to obtain a sense of isolation for Reacher and his characters. This fourth dimension it�s geographical isolation rather than being snowbound. Kid�s style makes the reader feel cutting off from everything else, trapped in the same trap that all of the characters are in.

Unfortunately, it also adds a note of incredulity to the whole thing. We only see four of the residents who are not involved in the criminal side of things. While there are references to other farms and such, the county/boondocks doesn�t feel populated at all. Much happens in the ii days that Reacher is there, simply we never see any reaction to it from everyone other than the characters Child has shown the states. In that location�s the �phone tree� that the populace supposedly uses to keep tabs on what the Duncans are doing, just the only times we encounter it in effect, one of the characters is using information technology. Not that the author necessarily should take created more characters; the town simply shouldn�t feel as depopulated as it does.

Child�s characters could also use some work. Reacher is, of course, pure Reacher: intelligent to a fault, a quick thinker who can size up a situation and almost instantly know what he should exercise. He�s human, however, and does screw up on occasion. Instead of dwelling on information technology, though, he just moves forward, trying to ready whatever he�south screwed upward.

The remaining characters are pretty bland. Each has a hook, but they�re fairly one-dimensional otherwise. The residents of the town just lie there on the page, not really doing much - there to requite Reacher the information he needs and cower at the sight of the Duncans. That�s pretty much all. The bad guys are fifty-fifty less than that, either generic tough guys whom Reacher tin outsmart and outfight, or the Duncans, simply talking about what they demand to practice to continue their shipment going or demanding that Reacher exist taken out. We go no sense of them being intelligent enough to keep this operation going as long as they have. The Duncans� customers and their hired guys are worse still and quickly dispensed with.

Finally, there�s the ending. This i isn�t so much anticlimax with a cliffhanger, merely unbelievably violent and nonsensical. Reacher and the townsfolk do much that would somewhen phone call the attending of the government, and the way Reacher leaves it (�just tell them information technology was me�) beggars all belief. Child leaves it all likewise clean and bang-up in a mode too unrealistic.

Despite all of that, I couldn�t put the book downwardly. Reacher is a difficult man to ignore, fifty-fifty when you don�t believe what�southward going on around him. Child�south prose and storytelling capabilities are enough to carry Worth Dying For through all its faults. I honey the irony of characters making assumptions and interim on them when the reader knows that they�re incorrect. I like the near-misses when characters well-nigh cross or actually do cross paths with each other when they don�t know each others� identities, which adds a flake of delicious tension to the novel.

Worth Dying For is a peachy read. I just wish I could say it was a good volume, too.

Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. � Dave Roy, 2011

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