false<![CDATA[Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Series #1)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170916551m/78129.jpg7812919Welcome to Margrave, Georgia—but don't get too attached to the townsfolk, who are either in on a giant conspiracy, or hurtling toward violent deaths, or both.
There's not much of a welcome for Jack Reacher, a casualty of the Army's peace dividend who's drifted into town idly looking for traces of a long dead black jazzman. Not only do the local cops arrest him for murder, but the chief of police turns eyewitness to place him on the scene, even though Reacher was getting on a bus in Tampa at the time. Two surprises follow: The murdered man wasn't the only victim, and he was Reacher's brother whom he hadn't seen in seven years. So Reacher, who so far hasn't had anything personal against the crooks who set him up for a weekend in the state pen at Warburton, clicks into overdrive.
Banking on the help of the only two people in Margrave he can trust—a Harvard-educated chief of detectives who hasn't been on the job long enough to be on the take, and a smart, scrappy officer who's taken him to her bed— he sets out methodically in his brother's footsteps, trying to figure out why his cellmate in Warburton, a panicky banker whose cell-phone number turned up in Joe's shoe, confessed to a murder he obviously didn't commit; trying to figure out why all the out-of-towners on Joe's list of recent contacts were as dead as he was; and trying to stop the local carnage or at least direct it in more positive ways. Though the testosterone flows as freely as printer's ink, Reacher is an unobtrusively sharp detective in his quieter moments—not that there are many of them to judge by.
Despite the crude, tough-naïf narration, debut novelist Child serves up a big, rangy plot, menace as palpable as a ticking bomb, and enough battered corpses to make an undertaker grin.
Winner of the 1998 Barry Award for Best First Novel, awarded by Deadly Pleasures magazine. 45110381997Killing Floor (Jack Reacher Series #1)total:2674|5:791|4:1137|3:629|2:90|1:24|267410607351838932falsefalseMon May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008Sat Mar 01 10:42:40 -0800 2008Wed May 28 18:56:48 -0700 2008
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Well I've finished it now, and quite quickly!
Good thriller, does what a thriller is supposed to do, and keeps the reader turning pages at a cracking pace. Very violent as I had been warned by Nancy Pearl...more...]]>
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30falsefalseThu Feb 19 13:50:41 -0800 2009Thu Feb 19 13:57:12 -0800 2009 Reacher is a drifter because he is a drifter. He is a Ramboish ex-military policeman who is lost in the civilian world. He drifts because that's all he has done since he was a military brat. He's rarely had a fixed location for long and just wan...more...]]>
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50falsefalseFri Jul 24 14:07:53 -0700 2009Fri Jul 24 14:08:02 -0700 2009 This was my first book by Lee Child that I have ever read and I have to say that I was impressed. Jack Reacher, a former military policeman turner drifter, happens upon a gruesome murder in a small town. He finds himself arrested for a...more...]]>
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The story itself is decent. Jack Reacher is an ex-military dude who finds himself thrust into the middle of a small-town murder spree and has to wor...more...]]>
31falsefalseSat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005Sat Apr 11 16:45:32 -0700 2009Sat Apr 11 16:46:10 -0700 2009 Minding his own business while...more...]]>
20falsetrueTue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009Mon May 18 07:01:36 -0700 2009Tue May 19 14:55:11 -0700 2009 Unfortunately there were some major flaws. Jack Reacher is too perfect, he was an MP, yet apparently got some kind of incredible training that made him smarter then a 20 year veteran in homicide from Boston, who by the way is Harvard educated. Pl...more...]]>
30falsefalseThu Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008Mon Nov 17 21:05:36 -0800 2008Thu Nov 20 23:14:09 -0800 2008 The Good:
Fast read, like watching a movie. Cinematic. I learned a lot about military policemen and got some good ideas on how to counterfeit money.
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Jack soon provides an alibi, but something shocks him into helping the locals solve ...more...]]>
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22falsefalseMon Jul 06 06:15:18 -0700 2009Tue Jul 28 12:57:16 -0700 2009 A big tough ex-military guy drifts into a small town and is sucked into uncovering a vast criminal conspiracy through completely unbelievable coincidences. - Check.
Hero has a cool, manly sounding name: Jack R...more...]]>
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