Echo Burning

audio cassette

Published June 28, 2002 by Brilliance Audio.

ISBN:
978-1-58788-372-9
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3 stars (24 reviews)

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review).

Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.

She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl...and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now.

Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. …

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3 stars

Arghhhhhh Lee Child - this is such a difficult book to review. The first third of the book is horrendous, poorly paced, and almost entirely an info dump. I absolutely detest the books where Reacher is just experiencing something going on, instead of actively investigating a crime, and this is just that, along with the author telling instead of showing. It's bad enough that I recommend you skip this book unless you are a big Lee Child fan.

If you're able to get past that, the book picks up pace and finally finds its stride once Reacher is trying to understand what kind of mystery he's dealing with. And there is reward on the other side! The primary antagonist is probably the best written one from Lee Child in all five books so far. Writing was primarily centered on Reacher, with a subplot that allowed you to follow the antagonists …

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