A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel Audio CD – Abridged, Audiobook Author: Visit Amazon's Lee Child Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0804148929 | Format: PDF
A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel Audio CD – Abridged, Audiobook Description
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“The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—
USA Today “Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.”
—The Miami Herald “Smart, breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”—
The New York Times “Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.”
—NewsweekAbout the Author
Lee Child is the author of seventeen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the
New York Times bestsellers
Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and
The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers
The Affair,Worth Dying For,61 Hours, Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and
Nothing to Lose, as well as the short stories “Second Son” and “Deep Down.” His debut,
Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and
The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in more than forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller,
Never Go Back.
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- Series: Jack Reacher
- Audio CD
- Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (September 17, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804148929
- ISBN-13: 978-0804148924
- Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
It's with a heavy heart that I have to write this review. Before we start, as you can tell from my name, Reacher Creature, that I'm a huge fan of Lee Child and Jack Reacher. I had this day circled on the calendar, and pre-ordered it. I just can't believe that Lee Child wrote this clunker. Okay, let's just get this over with. This is a horrible book.
Reacher is hitchhiking and he only wanted to get to Virginia. He gets a ride, but then soon realizes that things aren't what they seem. Reacher was only picked up as a decoy to help get people through a couple of police check points. As always, Reacher is nobody's pawn, and wants to get to the bottom of things, and make the bad guys pay with the justice only Reacher can dish out.
There are so many things wrong with this clunker:
1) Things are repetitive. Here is an example. Reacher makes a 9-1-1 call. The 9-1-1 goes through a "chain of command" four or five times, and we get to hear the call each time. Then when the right person gets the call, we hear it again, then the person goes through it sentence by sentence and analyzes each line. It's painful to read over and over and over. Another character had a conversation with Reacher, and plays it over and over, line by line, picking it apart, word by word. It's brutal.
2) So many long and pointless scenes That are drawn out. As the reader, we're treated to an entire chapter of the following: a) Someone looking for a car. b) Someone walking up a driveway. Mind you, those aren't in the same chapter, *each* of them is a long and tedious chapter. It is so pointless, boring, and a waste of time.
3)Too much time in the car. Reacher and his travel mates spend way, way, way to much time in the car. It's tedious and boring.
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