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‘If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the first few pages, then they shouldn’t really be reading thrillers at all’ Independent
There’s trouble in the deadly wilds of Nebraska . . . and Reacher walks right into it. He falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire country into submission.
But it’s the unsolved case of a missing eight-year-old girl that Reacher can’t let go.
Reacher – bruised and battered – should have just kept going. But for Reacher, that was impossible.
What, in this fearful county, would be worth dying for?
You’d think that after 14 novels featuring hard-scrabble hero, Jack Reacher, Lee Child’s pulse-pounding series would start showing signs of wear. It is nothing short of remarkable that Child is not only able to continually reinvent his ex-military cop, but that each instalment is better than the last. Worth Dying For finds our battered hero hiding in plain sight in a tiny Nebraska town, trying to recover from the catastrophe he left behind in South Dakota (no spoilers here, but readers are still arguing over 61 Hours’s cliffhanger ending). Fans rarely see such a physically vulnerable Reacher (in the first part of the book he is barely able to lift his arms) but it just adds to the fist-pumping satisfaction of seeing our weary good guy take on the small-town baddies. –Daphne Durham
From Publishers Weekly
In Child’s exciting 15th thriller featuring one-man army Jack Reacher (after 61 Hours), Reacher happens into a situation tailor-made for his blend of morality and against-the-odd’s heroics. While passing through an isolated Nebraska town, the ex-military cop persuades the alcoholic local doctor to treat Eleanor Duncan, who’s married to the abusive Seth, for a “nosebleed.” Reacher later breaking Seth’s nose prompts members of the Duncan clan, who are involved in an illegal trafficking scheme, to seek revenge. Reacher, who easily disposes of two hit men sent to get him, winds up trying to solve a decades-old case concerning a missing eight-year-old girl. While Child convincingly depicts his hero’s superhuman abilities, he throws in a few lucky breaks to enable the outnumbered Reacher to survive. Crisp, efficient prose and well-rounded characterizations (at least of the guys in the white hats) raise this beyond other attempts to translate the pulse-pounding feel of the Die Hard films into prose.
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Worth Dying For follows on directly from the end of 61 Hours.
Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group) Transworld Publishers Ltd
Released: 4th August, 2011
