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61 Hours
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By
Lee Child
| Rating: | | | Format: | Paperback, 448 pages, Airports / Ireland / Edition | | Release Date: | 16 March 2010 | Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm.
There's a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There's a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There's a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico.
Jack Reacher hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat. But he's equipped for the rest of his task. He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs. About the AuthorLee Child is British, but after he was made redundant from his job in television, he moved with his family from Cumbria to the United States to start a new career as a writer of American thrillers. He now divides his time between France and New York. All his novels feature the maverick Jack Reacher, and all have been international bestsellers. ReviewsNarrator Dick Hill has been perfecting Reacher's hard-boiled verbal swagger for years. In this installment, Reacher is stranded in a snow-bound South Dakota town where a biker gang has turned an abandoned facility into a meth lab. A member of the gang is in prison awaiting trial, and a hit man has been hired to remove the only witness to the crime, a 70-something librarian. According to a curious stipulation, every time the prison's trouble gong sounds every policeman in town must report there immediately-even if it means leaving the sweet old librarian to the mercy of the unknown assassin. Happily, none of these convolutions give Hill pause. It's his job to entertain, and that he does, almost chuckling as he describes Reacher's takedown of two giant bikers, relishing the hero's heralded powers of observation, or summoning up a large, accented ration of nastiness for the villain of the piece, a diminutive Mexican crime boss named Plato. When the book finally arrives at the end of its 61-hour countdown, thanks to Hill the time seems to have been well spent. A Delacorte hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 1). (May) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. |
| Publisher: | Bantam Press | | ISBN: | 0593057074 |
| EAN: | 9780593057070 |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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Brilliant- my first Lee Child book and I also will be looking out for more. Great stuff!
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– Customer review on 01/09/2010
Set in snowstorm where a bus carrying elderly tourists crashes unexpectedly and with potentially life-threatening consequences, Jack Reacher, who had earlier joined the tour in a random attempt to 'keep moving', manages to rescue the situation. Owning nothing and dependent completely on a credit card, he creates suspicion in the local police who come to realise that Reacher has a mysterious and possibly sinister past. He proves to be the town's saviour, however, as the community becomes threatened by outside forces determined to destroy anyone and anything which stands in their way.
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– Customer review on 29/05/2010
This is my first Lee Child book, but not the last! It's fast-paced, smartly written and absorbing. I audibly gasped reading one part, I never do that stuff, lol.
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 – Customer review on 15/05/2010
another great book full of action with a great and entertaining story it would be good for the middle age child. i would reccomend this book to any child it is just that great.it is very amusing and is a good time consumer
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– Customer review on 24/03/2010
Another fast-paced, egdge of your seat thriller from Lee Child. Couldn't put it down! A must for Child's fans.
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