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Echo Burning (Jack Reacher #5)

by Lee Child

3.90 · rating details · 6,237 ratings · 390 reviews

Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She's got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic.

Paperback, 432 pages

Published November 1st 2005 by Berkley Trade

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Nov 10, 2011

Ralph McEwen rated it

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Another good story by Mr. Child. 5,388 ratings, 356 reviews, 3.90 stars probably says it all. I did like Micheal Busby’s review which I have copied below.

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Lee Child has many qualities of a great author. His characters do things. His characters talk. His characters act in reasonable ways. Child lets the reader into Reacher's head. We get to see the decisions he makes. We understand why those decisions are made. One would think this...more

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Nov 15, 2011

Wesley rated it

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We'll I won't complain to bad because up until now all the Jack Reacher books have been just completely awesome. This one is no different in it's own way. This was a decent story but predictable, even 75% through I nailed it out. It wasn't like things were sooo interesting prior to that though. That being said this book still gets 4 stars. It was still a solid book, no doubt and should be read in the series. I will keep it simple, if this is the least I will like a Jack Reacher novel then that's...more

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Jun 14, 2011

David rated it

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In "Killing Floor" (which I thoroughly enjoyed), Lee Child introduced an electric main character named Jack Reacher. He is ex-military and wanders from place to place. He is smart and a violent badass to anyone who messes with him or those he cares about. In Reacher, Child has created a character who can interact with anyone, go anywhere and do anything.

So who does Reacher interact with in this book? A Hispanic woman named Carmen. She picks up Reacher as a hitchhiker...moreIn "Killing Floor" (which I thoroughly enjoyed), Lee Child introduced an electric main character named Jack Reacher. He is ex-military and wanders from place to place. He is smart and a violent badass to anyone who messes with him or those he cares about. In Reacher, Child has created a character who can interact with anyone, go anywhere and do anything.

So who does Reacher interact with in this book? A Hispanic woman named Carmen. She picks up Reacher as a hitchhiker and tells him a sad story about her life. Reacher thinks that she is lying. Maybe she is. Maybe she isn't. This gets the book off to an intriguing start. Unfortunately, all anyone in this book seems to do is to debate whether Carmen is telling the truth. Yes, she is. No, she is not. If she had an interesting story, that would be one thing. But her story, while sad, is not interesting at all. At the 90% mark, people are *still* arguing about this. It is incredibly boring.

Who are the villans who mess with Reacher? Texans, who (and this is shocking) are rednecks! They are so one-dimensional, they are not worth writing about. They do very predictable redneck things, are racists, shoot rifles, and like everyone else in the book, debate about whether Carmen is telling the truth. Maybe she is. Maybe she isn't.

What does Reacher, the super-smart, ultraviolent action hero do throughout the book? He eats ice cream. He learns how to saddle a horse. He buys clothes. I half-expected Lee Child to have him spend a day in the library reading. Oh, and he wonders if Carmen is telling the truth. Maybe she is. Maybe she isn't. There are only a couple of action scenes.

In "Echo Burning", Child seems to have had the idea of writing a thriller with almost no action. Call me picky, but that is a really bad idea. It's like a James Bond movie where Bond spends the movie doing some window shopping, and oh, debating about whether the main character is lying. Maybe she is. Maybe she isn't.

Was Carmen actually lying? Maybe she was, maybe she wasn't. By the end of the book I didn't care. I just wanted the talking to end!(less)

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Dec 17, 2011

Jane Stewart rated it

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Very enjoyable tough guy story. I wanted to keep reading. It’s fun. You need to suspend disbelief a little.

STORY BRIEF:
Carmen is of Mexican heritage. Her husband Sloop is white. They live with his mother and brother on a remote Texas ranch. The mother and brother despise her because she is Hispanic. Her husband frequently beats her. They have a six-year-old daughter Ellie. Carmen has no money or family she can turn to. Sloop has been in jail for 1 ½ years and will be ...moreVery enjoyable tough guy story. I wanted to keep reading. It’s fun. You need to suspend disbelief a little.

STORY BRIEF:
Carmen is of Mexican heritage. Her husband Sloop is white. They live with his mother and brother on a remote Texas ranch. The mother and brother despise her because she is Hispanic. Her husband frequently beats her. They have a six-year-old daughter Ellie. Carmen has no money or family she can turn to. Sloop has been in jail for 1 ½ years and will be coming home in two days. Reacher is hitchhiking and meets Carmen when she gives him a ride. She tells Reacher of the abuse and asks him to help her. She wants him to kill her husband, but Reacher refuses, saying he is not an assassin. But, he decides to help her in other ways. She gets him hired as a ranch hand.

FRUSTRATIONS WITH THE FEMALE:
The damsel in distress Carmen is such a “wimp.” She is being physically abused by her husband, but she won’t run away. Reacher makes many suggestions, but for each one she says “I can’t” or “I won’t.” I found her illogical, unreasonable, and unwilling to help herself. Reacher suggests she see an attorney. She says she can’t because she has no money. He suggests a pro bono attorney. She says there’s too long of a wait. (It’s been more than 6 years that she could have been doing this, especially since her husband has been away for 1 ½ years.) Reacher tells her to run away to another city and get a job. She says she has to look after her daughter. He says there are shelters and places that can help with that. Then she says she doesn’t want to live her life as a fugitive hiding from her husband. She also says if she took their daughter out of Texas she could be arrested for kidnapping. Reacher says flee to Austin or another big Texas city. She says she hates living in Texas and refuses to live there anymore. Every single recommendation by Reacher was met by no. But, this makes a good setting for Reacher to come to the rescue. However, for much of the book, there is a question of whether Carmen is telling the truth.

BACK TO THE STORY – REVIEWER’S OPINION:
The best parts are the handful of incidents where Reacher hurts bad guys. I loved the way Reacher threatened Sloop, the wife beating husband. I had wondered what Reacher would say to him. That was good. I think that would scare any abuser. I was surprised and impressed with how Reacher obtained a car for one of his visits to a bad guy.

I was a little annoyed with Reacher in one scene. His helper was supposed to shoot once in the air. She asked Reacher when she should do it. He said “you’ll know.” Then when he needed her to do it, she didn’t, because she didn’t know when. She figured it out and did it a little later than he wanted, but I was shaking my head saying why didn’t he answer her earlier question and describe “when” he wanted her to do it? Was this that macho thing about guys expecting girls to read their minds? (I’ve run into this a few times in my own life.) Did the author want Reacher this way? Too macho to explain things? I don’t know.

I loved hearing Reacher’s tough guy threats to bad guys. But I was unhappy that the author did not show Reacher’s conversation with the short dark guy when they were in the bathroom for half an hour. I imagine the author was having writer’s block. I wish he would have taken the time or found the inspiration to show that conversation.

THE SERIES:
This is book 5 in the Jack Reacher series. I gave 4 or more stars to all of the first 5 books except for Running Blind, gave that one 2 ½.

NARRATOR:
The narrator Dick Hill was very good.

DATA:
Unabridged audiobook reading time: 13 hrs and 52 mins. Swearing language: I don’t recall any. Sexual content: none. Setting: current day Texas. Book copyright: 2001. Genre: mystery suspense thriller. Ending: Good and satisfying.(less)

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Aug 01, 2011

Michael rated it

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Lee Child has many qualities of a great author. His characters do things. His characters talk. His characters act in reasonable ways. Child lets the reader into Reacher's head. We get to see the decisions he makes. We understand why those decisions are made. One would think this would make for a very predictable story, predictable events, predictable dialog, and thus a boring story. Nope. Far from it.

While the reader does have great access to character motivation, Child generally only ...more

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Jan 24, 2011

Dlora rated it

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One of the best Reacher novels I've read so far. Reacher is sucked in by a damsel in distress--an Hispanic woman who has been beaten by her husband and sneered at by the dominant white community for years but who refuses to run away making her daughter and herself "illegals." She's hoping Reacher can help her with a different solution before her husband gets out of jail for tax evasion and the beatings begin again. Ellie, the six-and-a-half year old daughter, is a wonderful, appealing ...moreOne of the best Reacher novels I've read so far. Reacher is sucked in by a damsel in distress--an Hispanic woman who has been beaten by her husband and sneered at by the dominant white community for years but who refuses to run away making her daughter and herself "illegals." She's hoping Reacher can help her with a different solution before her husband gets out of jail for tax evasion and the beatings begin again. Ellie, the six-and-a-half year old daughter, is a wonderful, appealing character. Childs does a good job keeping me guessing on this one. It was like the story started out one way and then I had to flip my thinking to another story, plus there was a side detail running parallel to the two stories that I knew had to fit in somewhere but I was guessing and guessing how it did. There was perhaps more character development and exploration of misjustice and prejudice in this novel than macho action, violent fights, and stellar criminal detection, but there was enough to make it a Reacher type novel.

We are treated to a rationale for Reacher's morality, which usually shows up in the Child books. The "nothing wrong with killing cockroaches" theme, which is Reacher's own explanation of his actions. But Reacher also identifies with two descriptions of Pecos killer, Robert Clay Allison (1840-1887): "He never killed a man that did not need killing" and "Certain it is that many of his stern deeds were for the right as he undersood that right to be."

In Child's novels, I've always appreciated how the title adds a level of interest to the story. In this case, Echo Burning, the title of this novel, was harder to tie to the storyline. Echo is the name of a town in Texas near the border where prejudice still runs high against "beaners," a derogatory name for Hispanics. The injustices against the Hispanic community and the inhumane treatment of illegals is woven well into the story--Child wasn't really on a soapbox. Our hero, Reacher, of course, is not prejudiced against Hispanics. One nice quote from Honore de Balzac was shared in the novel, illustrating the difficulites of getting justice in the town : "Laws are spider webs through which the big files pass and the little ones get caught." Given this racial conflict, Echo Burning reminded me of Mississippi Burning and the civil rights conflicts of the South from the sixties. Ah, the title was very apt after all.(less)

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Jul 06, 2010

Jerry rated it

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Reacher metes out justice for abused Latina in great plot!

As usual, ex-MP, now civilian, Jack Reacher is drifting about the country when he's picked up by Carmen Greer, a Latina from a wealthy Mexican-American family who marries Sloop Greer, an oil-rich Texan with a horribly racist family. Their little girl, Ellie, herself a brave smart soul, is the slim tie that binds, but almost immediately Carmen winds up being a punching bag for Sloop. After nearly seven years of injuries, severa...moreReacher metes out justice for abused Latina in great plot!

As usual, ex-MP, now civilian, Jack Reacher is drifting about the country when he's picked up by Carmen Greer, a Latina from a wealthy Mexican-American family who marries Sloop Greer, an oil-rich Texan with a horribly racist family. Their little girl, Ellie, herself a brave smart soul, is the slim tie that binds, but almost immediately Carmen winds up being a punching bag for Sloop. After nearly seven years of injuries, several serious enough to require hospitalization (for "falling off a horse"), Carmen rats on Sloop to the IRS and he winds up in the slammer. But days away from release on parole, she realizes the cycle will merely resume, possibly in more deadly ways. She convinces Reacher with her tale of woe to come help her, even though he refuses her request to "execute" the returning Mr. Greer. From there, a complicated plot ensues, made even more complex by a two-man, one-woman team of assassins who first kill some "watchers" (who we thought might be after the little girl themselves), followed in quick succession by the murder of Sloop, ostensibly at the hands of Carmen. Reacher teams up with Alice the attorney to help defend her and decipher the truth, not an easy task. The plot meanders and twists and turns until a rather surprising villain surfaces right near the end and justice is carried out in Old West style.

Lee Child's star Reacher continues to be the lovable and oh so resourceful hero of the four earlier books in this growing set of thrillers. While he is smart enough to solve the most enigmatic investigation, he shrinks not a whit from snapping necks or otherwise dispensing his own brand of "vigilance" to the deserving bad guys and their helpers. That he resists sleeping with Carmen is both admirable and uncharacteristic, leaving us to wonder if he'll maybe take up with her if she ever gets free. Meanwhile, the marvelously suspenseful plot keeps us turning those pages quickly, something we've seen in all the Reacher stories. Child even weaves some interesting thoughts about discrimination into the tale -- Carmen remarks once that she's never even seen Mexico, yet she is treated cruelly as nothing but a "wetback" by most all the story's characters. Why some reviewers felt this novel was a bit off puzzles us -- while we admit to being huge Reacher/Child fans, we felt this story was right up there with the rest, and heartily recommend it!
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May 02, 2009

Christy rated it

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Jack Reacher travels the country with the clothes on his back and a folding toothbrush in his pocket. Hitchhiking through Texas, he’s picked up by Carmen Greer, a beautiful Hispanic woman. Although Carmen’s husband Sloop Greer is from a rich family, she only has $1.00 in her purse. Her husband’s in prison and Carmen hopes he stays there but Sloop’s worked out a deal with the federal authorities and is expected home. Carmen’s been cruising the streets, looking for someone she can talk into murde...more

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Aug 03, 2011

Jose rated it

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The author continues to portrait the character more and more as lawless revenger type of guy... after the previous book(Running Blind) I was afraid that the author was going to continue showing Jack Richard as a very unstable character... it is a shame becuause I believe he could've taken a different approach... maybe become a very elite Private Detective... still having adventures and breaking some laws here and there... but this book once again shows him as a drifter with no clear path. I u...more

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Dec 13, 2008

Brandon Collinsworth rated it

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Recommends it for: everyone

Great this one was as much fun to read as Die Trying and it had a better story and tighter plot. This one has been the hardest to put down of the series so far. It starts off a tad confusing, but you don't have to stick with it long to become hooked. Most of the twists Lee Child put there I didn't see coming and that is always fun. This one is another that at times seems more like a cookie cutter crime fiction book, it isn't though. Awesome action sequences, a great plot, and the best characters...more

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Apr 27, 2010

Linda I rated it

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Entertaining and interesting. Not the most thrilling book I've ever read but a great story, albeit a tad predictable and one where the hero can magically make all the right guesses and moves to strike enemies. But, acknowledgment of the racism and xenophobia that plagues southern border states is well laid out and compelling.

The novel starts with Jack aimlessly traveling around Texas until he meets the beautiful Carmen Greer, an abused Mexican housewife married to a white southern b...more

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Jun 03, 2009

Ian Mapp rated it

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After female gender politics of the 70s, I need (being as I am on holiday) a book about a big bloke kicking arse.

I am reading these in order every time i am away and I didnt really like the last one at all. I know they are silly kickabout books but the last one lacked credibility and didnt have a message.

This is a return to form. Reacher is on his own - helping a mexican lady whos husband is knocking her about and about to get out of jail.

This gives the auth...more

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Feb 23, 2010

Mike rated it

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If you're looking for a synopsis, go to Borders or Amazon or the other reviews for this title. I'm just here to tell you what I think.

Read this as a recommendation; I wanted to see if this Jack Reacher guy is all he's made up to be. And, mostly, he is. He's a tough-as-nails early-middle-aged man who is prepared to take care of business he gets suckered into wherever his wanderlust leads him. A man's man, not overly emotional but with a level-headed sensibility.

As a ...more

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Feb 03, 2012

Dawn rated it

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Overall, I would rate the Jack Reacher series as average. They're not the best books I've read, but definitely not the worst, either. I'd recommend them, but at the same time, I'm not sure it's worth going back to the beginning and reading all of them from the beginning. Each book really is independent from the earlier books, so you don't miss much by jumping in in the middle of the series. Having said that, I will continue to work my way through the series, since someone has given me most o...more

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Mar 09, 2009

Haden rated it

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This is a simply outstanding book. Child is a very patient writer, and takes his time with the details; nothing is left out. Even the little things that much of the time would seem insignificant are included. Things like the way water feels as it runs down your back when you are in the shower. These descriptions bring reality to all of the scenes that Child creates. This book in particular is built with details. The cleverly convoluted story leads the reader to numerous conclusions along t...more

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Sep 02, 2010

Anthony Policastro rated it

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Child's fifth novel, Echo Burning, was extremely entertaining, despite the serious nature of its subject - corruption, political and moral. It is a border story, reminding me of stories written by Cormac McCarthy. As Jack Reacher and Carmen Greer travel hundreds of miles between solitary towns in Texas, you will feel the vastness of Texas, and the precarious isolation of the characters. Hence, throughout the narrative, there is an eldritch and onimous feeling that permeates the pages similar to ...more

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Jul 06, 2011

Kimz Zahour rated it

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I'm enjoying this series. I like Reacher's tough guy, bad-ass-ness! The parts I like the most are when he gets to demonstrate it.
The first half of this book was a little slow in the bad-ass department. I don't like the violence... It's the reasoning that he does that is so appealing to me. I'm impressed with his thinking, his training and how he uses strategies. I don't think that way, so it's cool to be privy to that kind of thought process.
He walks into a bar and knows there...more

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Oct 31, 2011

Brian rated it

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Shelves: adventure, mystery-suspense

Jack Reacher is picked up hitchhiking by Carmen Greer. She tells him about her abusive husband who is soon being released from prison for tax evasion. She asks for his help. Feeling sorry for her, he agrees to go to Echo, Texas. There he meets her in-laws who clearly do not like Carmen. When her husband, Sloop, returns home, he is shot that evening and killed. Carmen is arrested. Jack hires a lawyer named Alice and the two try to prove her innocence.

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Dec 18, 2011

Kitty rated it

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Shelves: audio-books, adrenaline-rush

I'm listening to these for my husband, so it's only fair that I mention that he would have given this at least 3 stars. He felt it was as much "mindless fun" as the other Jack Reachers. Me - not so much. In general, this whole series is not really my cup of tea, but this one in particular I found very disappointing. I just thought Jack was acting like an idiot - and he's not supposed to be an idiot. Some of this may have been explained by the end of the book, but I still found mys...more

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Mar 05, 2009

David rated it

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Jack Reacher is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. While that is a bit unbelieveable - the rest of this novel is slamming!!! Reacher hitches a ride in Texas with a lady who claims her husband is beating her.. She eventually asks Reacher to kill her husband who is coming home from prison to start up in a couple of days. Reacher offers her a different type of help, but soon is embroiled in a murder mystery full of those wonderful Lee Child twists and turns leading up to an action-pack...more

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May 12, 2010

Swanbender2001 rated it

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Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former army cop comes to the aid of Carmen Greer, who picks him up on the side of the road one morning outside Lubbock, then asks him to kill her abusive husband. Sloop Greer is getting out of prison in a few days, and Carmen fears he will start beating her ...more

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Aug 24, 2011

David rated it

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Shelves: international-thriller

As usual, the story begins with the nomadic Jack Reacher meandering along, somewhere in America, and more specifically this time, Texas. Hitchhiking in the fierce heat, he is picked up by a beautiful, rich, but troubled Hispanic lady. From there Reacher seamlessly enters a world of lies, deceit, prejudice and murder. While at first reluctant, the uncomplicated Reacher is the perfect ally for a person who is scared and helpless. He likes to set things straight. And the best part, is that you, the...more

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Aug 13, 2011

April rated it

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About halfway into this book I still do intend to finish it ... it's not as gripping as the other Reacher books, and it starts out pretty ham-handed and clumsy. So far I'm not very impressed.

Now done with the book ... it got a little better, but on the whole it was pretty sorry for a Jack Reacher book. 2 stars might be a little unfair, 3 might be better. But it dragged and had gratuitous parts thrown in that didn't really go with the story and the plot was kind of iffy and many of the ...more

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Jan 17, 2011

Joe White rated it

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Shelves: fiction, on-shelf

Lee Child used an incredible amount of detail to describe events and use details to interweave this story. Nearing the later portion of the book it parallels a Holmesian mystery in allowing the main character to reveal his solutions to details that had occurred or been included as historical references to the plot of this story.
I felt like this story had a genuine drama, that pulls the reader forward. This may have been the second time that I have read this, as some details were familiar, ...more

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Jan 11, 2009

Ginny rated it

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Shelves: borrowed

Started out slow, but the last couple of chapters made up for the long build up. Stayed up way to late to finish it. Couldn't go to bed without knowing how it ended. Reacher is a man of honor and is very sure of himself. I just wish Child would allow him to carry a small duffle bag. This carrying only a toothbrush is a little too minimalist for me. Come on, a change of underwear and some deodorant is not going to tie the guy down, and if he had to leave it behind it would be no great loss....more

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Jul 07, 2010

Don Bradshaw rated it

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This book was slowwer than the others. Reacher is hitch hiking through west Texas when he's picked up by Carmen Greer. She's the beautiful and possibly abused mexican wife of Sloop Greer. Carmen moves Reacher into the bunk house on the grounds of the Echo Ranch owned by the bigoted Greer family. Carmen needs Reacher's help? because her husband Sloop is getting out of jail and wants revenge on the wife that tipped off the cops about him. It was hard for me to like Carmen or even feel bad for her...more

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Dec 28, 2011

Charlene rated it

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Echo Burning is an interesting mystery set in West Texas. The principal character, Jack Reacher, is a drifter with a past who is drawn into a complex family dynamic. The story is well constructed however I was disappointed with one out of character slip up on the part of Reacher. I don't think it is too much of a spoiler to mention that the Jack Reacher who knows so much about crime scenes would never leave his finger prints on a gun that he suspected might subsequently be used in the commission...more

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Jan 28, 2011

Linda Bentzen rated it

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“Echo Burning” by Lee Child is a very good mystery featuring Jack Reacher. It takes place in southern Texas in an area that does not get much rain. Reacher is walking along a two-lane highway when Carmen Greer picks him up and tells him a story. She talks about her home town, her family, her husband and the ranch where they live. There is trouble brewing and Carmen asks Reacher to help her. He won’t do what she asks but will go with her to see what’s going on. This visit could cost them their li...more

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Jun 28, 2010

Becky rated it

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I am working my way through the Jack Reacher series. I started with the latest, 61 Hours and then went back to book 1. This is book 6 & I must say my least favorite of the series.

However, that said the books are entertaining. Jack Reacher is a little over the top with his ability to solve all situations. However, I pegged who did the crime not too long after the quilty party was introduced into the story line. The Fed Ex package sealed it for me.

Is Jack Reacher t...more

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Sep 04, 2010

Sue rated it

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I just discovered this author, and I love his book! Jack Reacher is ex-military cop, hitching a ride, and gets picked up by a beautiful young woman in distress. He can never resist helping those in distress. She lives on a very remote ranch in Texas with her husband's family, where lies, hatred, and murder are the the ways of life. Her husband is due to get out of jail, and she knows he will resume the daily beatings of her. Nobody believes her; the cops are his buddies, the lawyers can't help. ...more

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