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One Shot (Jack Reacher #9)
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Lee Child
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in--no phone, no address, no commitments-ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Chil...more
Paperback, 496 pages
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March 24th 2009
by Dell
(first published January 1st 2005)
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A sniper guns down five people. The evidence against him is overwhelming. When questioned by the police he declares bluntly that they have the wrong man. Then he says, "Get Reacher." The cops have no idea who Reacher is, but you and I should know, because, if we are reading in order this is # 9 in the series. (oops- I read this one out of order)..
Reacher, however, is on the way already? Why? Because, the sniper committed the same type of crime during the Persian Gul...more
Reacher, however, is on the way already? Why? Because, the sniper committed the same type of crime during the Persian Gul...more
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Book Review- One Shot
Child, Lee: “One Shot” 2009 Dell Market Edtion; Delcacorte Publishing
Insanity, anger, and revenge causes many people to do things that they wouldn’t do when they were rationally thinking. The secret life of an ex military personnel is trying to be tracked by what he would call his “enemies”. Jack Reacher is one of Lee Childs main characters from his other sets of books. This series shows the many adve...more
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Michael Rich
Book Review- One Shot
Child, Lee: “One Shot” 2009 Dell Market Edtion; Delcacorte Publishing
Insanity, anger, and revenge causes many people to do things that they wouldn’t do when they were rationally thinking. The secret life of an ex military personnel is trying to be tracked by what he would call his “enemies”. Jack Reacher is one of Lee Childs main characters from his other sets of books. This series shows the many adve...more
I picked this up because I needed something to read. I wasn’t impressed with the first several pages because I had a difficult time sorting out who was speaking, but as I got into the book, I began to like the main character, Jack Reacher. An ex-military officer and policeman, he was cut loose under what I assume to be the Clinton administration. He’s a drifter whose presence has been requested by a former Army Sniper that he caught committing murder in Iraq, but got off on technicalities.
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4 ½ stars. You need to suspend disbelief, but it’s still a fun, tough guy story.
STORY BRIEF:
A sniper kills five people leaving a downtown office building. Several pieces of evidence point to James Barr a former army sniper. James says “You’ve got the wrong guy. Get Reacher for me.” Coincidentally Reacher comes to town for his own reasons. Reacher saw the story in the news. He knew Barr when they were in the army together fourteen years ago. Some bad guys don’t like Reac...more
STORY BRIEF:
A sniper kills five people leaving a downtown office building. Several pieces of evidence point to James Barr a former army sniper. James says “You’ve got the wrong guy. Get Reacher for me.” Coincidentally Reacher comes to town for his own reasons. Reacher saw the story in the news. He knew Barr when they were in the army together fourteen years ago. Some bad guys don’t like Reac...more
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The first few pages were painful. Lots of self-consciously terse sentences as if worried about scaring off slow readers. A sample from page 13: "The garage was always packed. He knew that. That was why they were extending it. They were doubling its size. It was used by shoppers. That was why it was quiet."
But soon things pick up and the plot moves along swiftly and smoothly. Reacher is a bland but likeable protagonist, notable mainly for being a loner and an expert investigator, b...more
But soon things pick up and the plot moves along swiftly and smoothly. Reacher is a bland but likeable protagonist, notable mainly for being a loner and an expert investigator, b...more
The premise: A sniper shoots five people in a plaza in Indianapolis. A veritable mountain of forensic evidence leads to the summary arrest of James Barr. Reacher knows him. He once investigated a similar sniper killing Barr had perpetrated while a soldier in Kuwait City. For various reasons, the matter was shoved under the carpet by the Army. Reacher had vowed to put Barr six feet under if he ever killed again.
There's just one hitch: is Barr as guilty as he seems?
I suppose th...more
There's just one hitch: is Barr as guilty as he seems?
I suppose th...more
If you aren't familiar with Lee Child's books, as I wasn't, you should know that his stories involve Jack Reacher, a former army officer who went to Westpoint, a big man who now, apparently, doesn't own a home, a car, a cell phone, anything. Heck, he even buys clothes, wears them until they're dirty, then gets rid of them. He's a hard man to find, and he travels light.
But Jack Reacher is our hero.
In ONE SHOT Reacher comes to Indiana when he learns that a former soldier he...more
But Jack Reacher is our hero.
In ONE SHOT Reacher comes to Indiana when he learns that a former soldier he...more
Really great action and fast-paced story with lots of detail about guns and fighting and military/police things. A senseless killing spree takes place in small Indiana town, but the police do an amazing job with the forensic evidence and actually find the killer within hours. However, the accused man says "Find Jack Reacher for me." What could connect this obvious psychopath with our wandering ex-army cop? When Reacher arrives, he agrees the case is a slam dunk and isn't surprised by w...more
Lee Child- One Shot (Dell Books 2009) 4.25 Stars
When a sniper takes out five people outside a DMV building, an ex-military man is quickly arrested and the evidence against him is staggering. Now the man is asking for Reacher. Unable to locate Reacher they are shocked when he suddenly shows up. Opposite of Reacher’s intentions, he is quickly learning that this airtight case may be unwinding, and another man may actually be in control of everything that has been happening. Teamed with ...more
When a sniper takes out five people outside a DMV building, an ex-military man is quickly arrested and the evidence against him is staggering. Now the man is asking for Reacher. Unable to locate Reacher they are shocked when he suddenly shows up. Opposite of Reacher’s intentions, he is quickly learning that this airtight case may be unwinding, and another man may actually be in control of everything that has been happening. Teamed with ...more
2 words that describe the book―Action Thriller
3 setting where the book took place or characters I met
* Setting: Indianapolis, Indiana, present day
* Jack Reacher―stud and former military investigator―is getting to intimately know a dancer from a cruise ship in South Beach, Miami when he catches a CNN report about a sniper shooting in Indianapolis. Six shots fired, and five left dead. The reported gunman? James Barr. The name is familiar to Reacher―so much so that he ...more
3 setting where the book took place or characters I met
* Setting: Indianapolis, Indiana, present day
* Jack Reacher―stud and former military investigator―is getting to intimately know a dancer from a cruise ship in South Beach, Miami when he catches a CNN report about a sniper shooting in Indianapolis. Six shots fired, and five left dead. The reported gunman? James Barr. The name is familiar to Reacher―so much so that he ...more
Another Holiday, another reacher. Perfect fayre really.
Despite knowing exactly what you are going to get - this is very well put together. I cant really use the term thriller, as you know who will win and to an extent, how he will win (drink some coffee, shag a female character, out fight/shoot the baddies). Child puts together a hollywood story that has a good ending, when Reacher - and chums - storm the bad guys thermal camera protected isolated farmhouse. And reacher is armed ...more
Despite knowing exactly what you are going to get - this is very well put together. I cant really use the term thriller, as you know who will win and to an extent, how he will win (drink some coffee, shag a female character, out fight/shoot the baddies). Child puts together a hollywood story that has a good ending, when Reacher - and chums - storm the bad guys thermal camera protected isolated farmhouse. And reacher is armed ...more
It's already "shot" to our ten LIFETIME BEST list !
We've read all eight of the Jack Reacher books and absolutely love this singular character. And in "One Shot" we found one of the best books we've ever read -- how's that for high praise! First, Reacher is perhaps the best new leading man of this decade: as smart as Nero Wolfe; as honest and personable as a Dick Francis hero; and as physically fit and resourceful as Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the type of will tha...more
We've read all eight of the Jack Reacher books and absolutely love this singular character. And in "One Shot" we found one of the best books we've ever read -- how's that for high praise! First, Reacher is perhaps the best new leading man of this decade: as smart as Nero Wolfe; as honest and personable as a Dick Francis hero; and as physically fit and resourceful as Arnold Schwarzenegger, with the type of will tha...more
When you're in a tight spot...... being handed a bad rap...... and need someone who, once committed to your case, will relentlessly pursue the truth, the man to call on is Jack Reacher.
Large in physical stature, expert in weaponry and hand to hand combat, an ex-military investigator with an analytical mind and the deductive powers to ferret out the truth no matter how convoluted the clues, Reacher is a man to be reckoned with.
A man's man; he's a strong, silent, low-main...more
Large in physical stature, expert in weaponry and hand to hand combat, an ex-military investigator with an analytical mind and the deductive powers to ferret out the truth no matter how convoluted the clues, Reacher is a man to be reckoned with.
A man's man; he's a strong, silent, low-main...more
Michael
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A sniper kills five people from his perch in a parking garage and sets up former Marine sniper, James Barr, for the killings.
When questioned, Barr won't talk to the police but asks his attorney to get Jack Reacher.
Reacher arrives but has no love for Barr. Reacher knows that Barr got away with killing a number of people when he was stationed in Kuwait City. Even though the people he killed may have deserved their fate, Reacher still feels that he escaped justice. Therefore...more
When questioned, Barr won't talk to the police but asks his attorney to get Jack Reacher.
Reacher arrives but has no love for Barr. Reacher knows that Barr got away with killing a number of people when he was stationed in Kuwait City. Even though the people he killed may have deserved their fate, Reacher still feels that he escaped justice. Therefore...more
This was the first book I've read of this series (someone gave me a stack of them the other week.) Continuity, like many detective series, does not really seem important here so starting with the 9th book of the series didn't seem to hinder me much.
As far as detective novels go, I enjoyed this one. It does not do much beyond the typical here, the protagonist is still a large middle aged male who is smarted than most (and of course handsome enough to develop relationships here and t...more
As far as detective novels go, I enjoyed this one. It does not do much beyond the typical here, the protagonist is still a large middle aged male who is smarted than most (and of course handsome enough to develop relationships here and t...more
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Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything—about a case that isn’t what it seem...more
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything—about a case that isn’t what it seem...more
Warning: television comparisons ahead -
I'd give this book a 3.5 if I could. This is the first Jack Reacher novel I've ever read, despite it being the ninth in the series. After hearing recent casting news for the upcoming One Shot film, I decided to read it, assuming it was the first. Apparently the author, Lee Child, wrote these books with the intention that they could be read in any order. Mission Accomplished! I had no idea this wasn't the first book.
And that segues us in...more
I'd give this book a 3.5 if I could. This is the first Jack Reacher novel I've ever read, despite it being the ninth in the series. After hearing recent casting news for the upcoming One Shot film, I decided to read it, assuming it was the first. Apparently the author, Lee Child, wrote these books with the intention that they could be read in any order. Mission Accomplished! I had no idea this wasn't the first book.
And that segues us in...more
This book was action from beginning to end. A small Indiana city is rocked when a sniper mows down five people with six shots in the city square as they are leaving the work place. The police believe they have an open and shut case but when they try to interrorgate the suspect, all he'll say is "Get Reacher Here". Reacher saw the news of the murders on TV and is already en route but by then the suspect has been beaten and is in a coma. Reacher is confronted bu the man's sister and it'...more
This is the Lee Child book that is supposedly going to be made into a movie starring Tom Cruise. Someone should tell Hollywood that Jack Reacher is 6'4", not 5'4". I'm not sure why, of all of the Reacher books, they chose to make a movie out of this one.
It is a solid effort. It is not an out-and-out thriller like "Killing Floor" or "Die Trying", but not a stinker like "Echo Burning". Lee Child has a knack for starting his books well, and "...more
It is a solid effort. It is not an out-and-out thriller like "Killing Floor" or "Die Trying", but not a stinker like "Echo Burning". Lee Child has a knack for starting his books well, and "...more
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This was the last of the series of Jack Reacher novels for me. I did not read them in order, which was only a little confusing at sometimes, but did not diminish the enjoyment of the books. So this was the final one for me to read and I think it is one of if not the best.
Lee weaves so many clues into the story in such a way that the reader is bound to miss many of them only to have them explained much later in the book. Lee has a way of pullin it all together in truely Jacks style...more
Lee weaves so many clues into the story in such a way that the reader is bound to miss many of them only to have them explained much later in the book. Lee has a way of pullin it all together in truely Jacks style...more
Although ‘One Shot’ is plotted similarly to other Reacher novels, it has enough fun twists to keep the story fresh. Reacher thrillers are pure entertainment. ‘One Shot’ is no exception. I haven’t read a bad one yet.
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series is flat out action fun. His prose is chainsaw elegant and sharp. That was half a compliment, but I wish other thriller writers would study Child‘s freight train style and trim the bloat. Throat grabbing pacing yanks the reader along so fast th...more
Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series is flat out action fun. His prose is chainsaw elegant and sharp. That was half a compliment, but I wish other thriller writers would study Child‘s freight train style and trim the bloat. Throat grabbing pacing yanks the reader along so fast th...more
This 6th book in my quest to read everything on earth this year is one sent to me by one of the forumites on the BPAL site. Marciabee and I had been going back and forth about a series we both adore... and then she told me about Jack Reacher and how I HAD to read about him. She looked through her stack of all the books on earth, found One Shot and promptly sent it to me with apologies that it wasn't the first in series.
I got it chosen for the Feb read for my little mystery grou...more
I got it chosen for the Feb read for my little mystery grou...more
I have already become quite a fan of Jack Reacher by the time I had read this the ninth novel in the series. Reacher is a former military police officer in the US army that in civilian life travels light; usually with just the clothes he is wearing and a folding toothbrush with his shaving gear left in the hotel room. When a former sniper is arrested following the apparent random slaying of five people in Indiana, Reacher is called in at the request of the suspect. Reacher is a tough man to find...more
“One Shot” opens with five people being gunned down by a sniper in a small Indiana town. A former sniper named James Barr, who lives in that town, is arrested. All of the evidence points to him–a solid case if ever there was one.
When Reacher hears about Barr’s arrest on the news, he immediately leaves for that town. Turns out Barr had done this before, in Kuwait, and Reacher had promised Barr that he would kill him if he ever tried anything like that again.
But, as they say in...more
When Reacher hears about Barr’s arrest on the news, he immediately leaves for that town. Turns out Barr had done this before, in Kuwait, and Reacher had promised Barr that he would kill him if he ever tried anything like that again.
But, as they say in...more
A very fast read, this is one in a long series about a loner called Jack Reacher. The first chapter, which describes a sniper shooting 5 people, almost stopped me cold. I've had enough of this stuff. However, the sniper's identity is not what it seemed at first so I got sucked in.
A couple of plot turns don't really stand close scrutiny. For example, an apparently random shooting of 5 people leaving the DMV in an Indiana city would have the local press tracking down the spouses of...more
A couple of plot turns don't really stand close scrutiny. For example, an apparently random shooting of 5 people leaving the DMV in an Indiana city would have the local press tracking down the spouses of...more
Another super page-turner from Child. This is the 9th Reacher novel and they just seem to get better and better. In this one, Reacher travels to Indiana because a former Army sniper apparently went on a shooting rampage killing 5 people -- Reacher wants to make sure the sniper gets his due. But as usual, all is not as it seems. Was the sniper coerced into doing the shooting or did he do it at all? Of course in the end, Reacher is able to get to the bottom of what really happened and why, but of ...more
"Not for nothing do reviewers tell readers to disconnect the phone when the latest Reacher knockout comes along," writes the entirely convinced Janet Maslin of The New York Times. She's not alone; several others rank One Shot (after 2004's The Enemy) as the author's best thriller in years, filled as it is with detailed procedural insight, dry wit, and page-turning disclosures. However, there is a caveat. Those bad guys? Truly too much to believe (the Washington Post was particularly of
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This was disappointing. It wasn't my favorite Reacher novel. I liked the surprise ending have the mole be Emerson and not Rodin. But other than that, the ending lacked excitement. Reacher was the one-man show who went in and killed the Zec and his team without any major fights/action. It was a bit corny.
And when the news reporter gives him an open invitation to hook up if he ever comes around and then the one love scene w/ his ex-love were lame! It was like Child wanted to ma...more
And when the news reporter gives him an open invitation to hook up if he ever comes around and then the one love scene w/ his ex-love were lame! It was like Child wanted to ma...more
Maybe i'm just not the thriller kind of reader, but i've read some before and enjoyed them much more than this book.
I just couldn't get into the writing style that much and i guess the Jack Reacher character is supposed to come across as a "man's man" and loner but he also comes across as a bit of an a-hole so by the end of the book, you hope he can help solve the situation but if he got taken out in the process, i wouldn't have been upset. Constantly referencing North Sout...more
I just couldn't get into the writing style that much and i guess the Jack Reacher character is supposed to come across as a "man's man" and loner but he also comes across as a bit of an a-hole so by the end of the book, you hope he can help solve the situation but if he got taken out in the process, i wouldn't have been upset. Constantly referencing North Sout...more
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“I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.”
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