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Book · 1998
Die Trying
While helping an injured woman outside a Chicago dry cleaner, former military investigator Jack Reacher is kidnapped at gunpoint alongside her. He soon discovers his fellow hostage is an FBI agent and high-value target marked by a militant separatist group, leaving the duo to outmaneuver their captors across the American wilderness.
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We happily reunite with the character of Reacher, a dinosaur straight out of 80s action movies, always badass, supremely confident, lethally efficient, and always ready with a sharp quip to infuriate the bastards.
From L'ours inculte Once the reader gets past the numerous missed opportunities for a somewhat more profound story, they will certainly get their money's worth, because Child knows his craft.
Michael Drewniok on Krimi-Couch Child does the small stuff very well here -- it's the kind of detail and presentation you want in this kind of thriller -- but whiffs big time with the bigger picture, in trying to make that way, way too big.
M.A. Orthofer on The Complete Review
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