Die trying : a Jack Reacher novel

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Die trying : a Jack Reacher novel

Author:

Child, Lee.

ISBN:

9781611761924

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

[New York] : Penguin Audio, ℗2013.

Physical Description:

12 audio discs (870 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Series title(s):

Jack Reacher novel (Audio) ;

Number in series:

General Note:

Compact disc.

Duration: 14:30:00.

Summary:

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher finds himself in the wrong place at the right time, as he finds himself kidnapped off of a Chicago street, along with an attractive woman who he was simply trying to help. As he and the woman are taken across the country, Reacher finds out that not only does the woman work for the FBI--she's the Joint Chief of Staff chair's daughter. Lucky for them both, though, Reacher still has his military skill set and the drive to foil their captors.

Personal Subject:

Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)-Fiction.

Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character)

Subject(s):

Private investigators -- Fiction.

Kidnapping -- Fiction.

Hostages -- Fiction.

Revenge -- Fiction.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

Montana -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Added Author:

McClain, Johnathan, 1970-

Holds:

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Summary

See Jack Reacher now in his first major motion picture.

When a woman is kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight, Jack Reacher's in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's kidnapped with her. Chained together and racing across America toward an unknown destination, they're at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom. Because Reacher's female companion is worth more than he imagines. Now he has to save them both--from the inside out--or die trying...

Author Notes

Lee Child is the pen name of Jim Grant, who was born in Coventry, England on October 29, 1954. He attended law school at Sheffield University, worked in the theater, and finally worked as a presentation director for Granada Television. After being laid off in 1995 because of corporate restructuring, he decided to write a book. The Killing Floor won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel and became the first book in the Jack Reacher series. In 2012, the first Jack Reacher film was released starring Tom Cruise. His book's, Worth Dying For and Past Tense, made the bestseller list in 2018.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Kirkus Review

Furiously suspenseful, but brain-dead second volume in Child's gratuitously derivative Jack Reacher action series (Killing Floor, 1997). Reacher, a former Army Military Police Major, has now moved on to Chicago, where he gallantly assists a beautiful mystery woman hobbling on a crutch with her dry cleaning. Seconds later, Reacher and the woman, FBI agent Holly Johnson (also daughter of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as goddaughter of the President), are kidnaped by armed gunmen. Handcuffed together and tossed in the back of a van, the two are taken to the Montana mountain stronghold of Beau Borken, a fat, ugly, psychopathically vicious neo-Nazi militia leader given to sawing the arms off day laborers and making windy speeches about how he brilliant he is. Of course, the kidnappers don't know that they have a former military police major in their clutches who, in addition to having a Silver Star for heroism, is one of the best snipers the Army has ever produced, can pull iron rings out of barn doors, and kill bad guys with lit cigarettes. Meanwhile, a team of FBI agents, at least one of whom is a mole leaking information to Borken, identify Reacher from a reconstructed photo taken from the dry cleaner's surveillance camera. Borken, impressed with Reacher's military record, lectures him about his brilliant plan to overthrow the US using a hijacked Army missile unit, with Holly held as a hostage in a specially constructed, dynamite-lined prison cell. Borken stupidly lets Reacher best him in a shooting match, then grandiosely turns his back on his captives enough times for Reacher and Holly to escape, cause havoc, get captured, escape, make love in the woods, cause more havoc, and get captured again, as General Johnson, FBI Director Harlan Webster, and General Garber, Reacher's former commander, plan a covert strike on Borken's fortress thats certain to fail. Another Rogue Warrior meets Die Hard with all the typical over-the-top plotting, blood-splattering ultraviolence, lock-jawed heroics and the dumbest villains this side of Ruby Ridge. (Book-of-the-Month Club featured alternate selection; author tour)

Library Journal Review

Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers, a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic leader. Child's tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays Reacher's efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries.Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.