61 hours : a Reacher novel /
by Child, Lee.
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From Product Description:
The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child’s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.
Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she’ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Reacher’s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed—but so is the woman whose life he’ll risk his own to save.
In 61 Hours, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.
From Amazon.com Review:
Every book starts with a grab-bag of ideas. I sat down to write 61 Hours with six things on my mind. First was the title...it just popped into my head and stayed there (and I knew I wanted the 61 to be written in figures, not words, so if you’re the kind of reader who arranges your shelves alphabetically--I apologize!)
Second, I knew it would once again feature Jack Reacher...over the last 13 books he’s built up such enthusiasm and loyalty among readers I knew I’d be crazy not to keep on reporting his adventures.
Thirdly, I knew I wanted very, very cold weather. My fifth book, Echo Burning, was set in the west of Texas in a heat wave, and the extreme temperature was seen as a real character in the story, so I wanted to try the same thing again, but this time at the opposite end of the thermometer. I was a little nervous at first, because one of my early writer heroes was Alistair MacLean, who wrote cold weather so well. But most of his cold stories were set up on the polar ice cap, or above the Arctic Circle, and I knew Reacher would have no reason to go there. In the end I chose South Dakota in the depths of winter as a location, and I’ll know I’ve succeeded if you shiver over every page.
Fourth, fifth, and sixth, I had three names to work with--winners of your-name-as-a-character charity auction lots. A gentleman named Mark Salter helped out with autism research and asked for his mother’s name to be in the book--Mrs. Janet Salter; and then for two separate literacy projects, a man named Andrew Peterson won an auction, and the man who won the other wanted his wife’s name included--Susan Turner. All three winners made very generous donations to the various charities, so I decided it was only fair to make all three into important, central characters.
The only problem was...Mr. Turner asked that the character named after his wife have a romantic entanglement with Reacher. Read 61 Hours to see if he got his wish!
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Naah
This contains some spoilers, so don't read the review if you are going to read the book, and if you do, don't blame me. <br /> <br />The bad guy in this book is supposed to be hidden. And Reacher is supposed to be smart. He is protecting a witness against the bad guy -- a flunky of the ultimate bad guy named Plato from Mexico -- but has no idea who the bad guy is. This is rather pathetic, because there are a lot of clues, very obvious ones, and I figured out who this was about 250 pages before Reacher did. OK, I do smirk at myself in the mirror when I find I am smarter than this so-called genius at crime solving who can tell what motel room in what city a Ft. Hood terrorist is staying at without ever having met the guy. I couldn't figure out the motel room. So how come Reacher can't come up with the name of the bad guy? Or why does he do stupid things the bad guy suggests so as to leave the witness he is protecting unprotected? Geez. <br /> <br />Also there is a "cliff hanger" ending. Really. You don't know whether Reacher is dead or alive (told you -- spoiler -- don't blame me, you read this far). My guess is alive because there is another book coming out and it would be difficult to have a Reacher novel without him. Kind of like the Clouseau movies that came out after Peter Sellers died. <br /> <br />It's readable, if not believable. It's hard to believe that the feds would require an entire city police force to abandon its job of protecting a city in order to surround a federal prison. I mean someone has to stay home and mind the store, and most towns wouldn't just rely on some guy drifting through town to provide security when the cops are away. If a bank robber hears that prison siren and sees all the cops leave it's an early Christmas for him.
Is Lee Child recycling plots?
As I was reading one of my favorite authors, Lee Child's recent books, "61 Hours," something was nagging me. Then I remembered his debut novel, "Killing Floor," and was surprised by the many plot similarities between the two books. <br /> <br />In both books, Reacher is helping the overwhelmed police department of a small town. In "Killing Floor the action is in Margrove, Georgia. In "61 Hours," the setting is Bolton, South Dakota. <br /> <br />Both stories have only two members of the police department helping Reacher. In "Killing Floor," it is Capt. Finley, (the second in command) and Officer Roscoe. In "61 Hours," it is Chief Holland and Andrew Peterson, second in command. <br /> <br />Both stories have Reacher calling the Washington D.C. area for background assistance. In the first novel, it is Reacher's brother's division in the Treasury Department. In the current novel, he calls the Commanding Officer of an elite military group in Rock Creek, Va., a group that Reacher once commanded. <br /> <br />There are deadlines that play an important part in both novels. In "Killing Floor," the case must be solved by the next Sunday, when the Coast Guard is scheduled to relax its surveillance . In "61 Hours," there is an event that is scheduled to happen in that time and the reader understands that someone will have to do something to stop an event from happening before then. <br /> <br />In both novels, the town benefited from an outside source and that led to the relaxed atmosphere that enabled the situation to develop. In "Killing Floor," a wealthy corporateowner has purchased town property and contrubuted vast amounts to the local businesses. In "61 Hours" a correctional facility is built on town land and the town gets jobs and taxes but has had to make consessions to get the facility built there. <br /> <br />In "Killing Floor," Reacher is saving the family of Paul Hubble. In "61 Hours," there is a witness, Janet Slater, a retired librarian, who witnessed a drug deal involving a higher up in the drug gang. She must be protected so nothing can happen to her and she gets to testify. <br /> <br />I enjoyed both novels but feel that "Killing Floor" was far superior due to its originality. It is always fun to read of Reacher's exploits, his courage, strength and compassion. However, the similarities in plots bothered me. <br /> <br />Lee Child is still one of the best story tellers and thriller writers in fiction.
61 hours
I love Lee Child and have read all of his books, but this storu is slow and bland. Not his best work.
This is so far, the WORST!!!!!!
what's going on, l.c.? are you crazy or what? this kind of writing will only make you a worse and worse writer and didn't you find out by yourself yet that your writing has become more and more pretentious, less and less readable? why you put so many deadbeat and meaningless numbers, figures, directions, positions, locations, calculations in a book? don't you ever get tired or you just become so addict to these crap? <br /> <br />from the first sentence, on and on and on, those terrible time frames just started clicking and could never stop. the sentences and paragraphs were just way too hollow and too pretentious to read on. when you can stop stacking up your words and sentences? because your poor and bad writing habit just remind me of a book that i've read long time ago by another foreign writer: <br /> <br />"the crescent moon is curved in shape; <br />the sword is also curved in shape; <br />why the sword is curved in shape? <br />because it's a sabre! so it is curved in shape!" <br /> <br />your writing is exactly in this kind of format, always turning around in circle, either stacking up or twisted around with so many turns, but those words are just so hollow and so meaningless. you put everybody in your book thinking like you so abnormally. people on a train, in the train station, on the road, and jack reacher, the poor guy who you created, is just the same. his reasoning, his logic, his every movement....are just some calculated figures. there's no end in sight in every direction. <br /> <br />give it a rest, will you? just give us some straightforward writing, storyline, no gimmicky stacking up sentences again. <br /> <br />61 hours before, then 5 minutes less, then <br />the lawyer... <br />the prisoner... <br />the lawyer.... <br />the prisoner.... <br /> <br />the door in the glass <br />the door in the wall <br />the prison guard....another prison guard... <br /> <br />the lawyer... <br />the prisoner..... <br /> <br />10 minutes away from .... <br />15 miles south of..... <br />9 blocks to the...... <br /> <br />STOP IT!!! JUST STOP IT!!!!
Very disappointing, Reacher no longer a hero
I'll start by saying I've been a big fan of the series. But this is the worst of the bunch. Obvious plot twists & a lack of action make this novel fairly boring. If you're a fan of the series I'd skip this one unless you're desperate for an average to below average read. <br /> <br />SEMI-SPOILER: <br />And on a different note Reacher saves no one in this book. In fact his actions probably cause more to die. That might be fine for other types of stories but that's not appropriate or enjoyable in this type of series.
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