Worth Dying For

by Lee Child

eBook, 544 pages

English language

Published Oct. 19, 2013 by Dell.

ISBN:: 978-0-440-33934-2
OCLC Number:: 679527105

(21 reviews)

There’s deadly trouble in the corn county 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, decades-old case of a missing child that Reacher can’t let go.

The Duncans want Reacher gone—and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. 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 put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that’s bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.

4 editions

Phil in SF reviewed Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #15)

Reacher trips over yet another massive criminal conspiracy

3 stars

Reacher stumbles into a rural Nebraska county while hitchhiking away from the events in 61 Hours. While drinking coffee at a rural motel bar, he overhears an alcoholic doctor turn down visiting a woman who is experiencing a nosebleed. Reacher keeps his nose out of lots of other people's business, but he suspects the woman is a domestic violence victim and badgers the doctor into visiting, with Reacher along for the ride.

The woman turns out to be the wife of a local county heavy, so Reacher is off on another adventure battling local crime bosses, much like a one man A-Team. Before the end of the book, Reacher aims to end their control, at least the terrorizing people into silence part.

Competence porn at its most ok.

ridel reviewed Worth Dying For by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #15)

Review of 'Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, #15)' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Worth Dying For is one of those Jack Reacher novels that reminds me that “low stakes” can still be really entertaining. It’s extremely unique because there’s no big threat to the country or the world, but just people being jerks. So you create a situation where people are just being yanked around all the time, they’re powerless to stop it, and toss in Jack Reacher — the Equalizer.

Sorry - that’s already taken. But regardless, the moment the novel starts, you know Jack is going to have words with the “villains”. I struggle to use that word because honestly, the other side are just your bog standard jerks. But they’re using a point of leverage brilliantly, and hurting the little people. Since I like to think that I’m the little people, this makes me really, really like Jack’s brand of justice.

Recommended.

I don’t actually mean to say that pedophilia and murder is mere ‘jerk’, but avoided calling that out to prevent spoilers. These are very, very nasty people, and prison or death is the right place for the Duncans.

The mystery of what’s being transported was somewhat muted, and I enjoyed the subtle evidence left behind for Dorothy’s lost child. I had guessed that was the case so this is one of those rare times when I managed to figure out a Lee Child mystery before the reveal.

The three-way showdown between the out-of-towners was wonderful. I was both laughing at the craziness, and impressed with Lee Child’s ability to show us their viewpoints and how they saw the situation. Reacher was often incorrect analyzing the enemy motivations and that was appreciated.

I loved this book.