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A Wanted Man: A Jack Reacher Novel [Hardcover]

Lee Child
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Book Description

September 11, 2012 Jack Reacher (Book 17)
Reacher is back! A Wanted Man is a new masterpiece of suspense—from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.
 
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.
 
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.
 
All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat—to both sides at once.
 
In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.
 
Praise for #1 bestselling author Lee Child and his Reacher series
 
“Child is a superb craftsman of suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
“The truth about Reacher gets better and better.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
 
“Implausible, irresistible Reacher remains just about the best butt-kicker in thriller-lit.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps.”—Associated Press
 
“Lee Child [is] the current poster-boy of American crime fiction.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“Indisputably the best escape artist in this escapist genre.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
 
“Jack Reacher is much more like the heir to the Op and Marlowe than Spenser ever was.”—Esquire

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Editorial Reviews

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“The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—USA Today
 
“Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.”—The Miami Herald
 
“Smart, breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”—The New York Times
 
“Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.”—Newsweek

About the Author

Lee Child is the author of seventeen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers The Affair, Worth Dying For, 61 Hours, Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose, as well as the short stories “Second Son” and “Deep Down.” His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in more than forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller, Never Go Back.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Delacorte Press; First Edition edition (September 11, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0385344333
  • ISBN-13: 978-0385344333
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2,375 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lee Child is the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Jack Reacher thrillers. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and the Nero awards for Best Novel. "Jack Reacher", the film based on the 9th novel, One Shot, stars Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Rosamund Pike, Jai Courtney, and David Oyelowo and debuted in December 2012. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City and the south of France with his wife and daughter. Find out more about Lee Child and the Reacher novels on his official website: LeeChild.com, on Facebook LeeChildOfficial, on Twitter #LeeChildReacher, and YouTube leechildjackreacher.

Customer Reviews

I've read all the Jack Reacher books and always look forward to the next one. Rebecca R. West  |  244 reviewers made a similar statement
Good plot twists keep pages turning fast. Hugo  |  245 reviewers made a similar statement
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608 of 685 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars If I could only give this zero stars. September 11, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's with a heavy heart that I have to write this review. Before we start, as you can tell from my name, Reacher Creature, that I'm a huge fan of Lee Child and Jack Reacher. I had this day circled on the calendar, and pre-ordered it. I just can't believe that Lee Child wrote this clunker. Okay, let's just get this over with. This is a horrible book.

Reacher is hitchhiking and he only wanted to get to Virginia. He gets a ride, but then soon realizes that things aren't what they seem. Reacher was only picked up as a decoy to help get people through a couple of police check points. As always, Reacher is nobody's pawn, and wants to get to the bottom of things, and make the bad guys pay with the justice only Reacher can dish out.

There are so many things wrong with this clunker:

1) Things are repetitive. Here is an example. Reacher makes a 9-1-1 call. The 9-1-1 goes through a "chain of command" four or five times, and we get to hear the call each time. Then when the right person gets the call, we hear it again, then the person goes through it sentence by sentence and analyzes each line. It's painful to read over and over and over. Another character had a conversation with Reacher, and plays it over and over, line by line, picking it apart, word by word. It's brutal.

2) So many long and pointless scenes That are drawn out. As the reader, we're treated to an entire chapter of the following: a) Someone looking for a car. b) Someone walking up a driveway. Mind you, those aren't in the same chapter, *each* of them is a long and tedious chapter. It is so pointless, boring, and a waste of time.

3)Too much time in the car. Reacher and his travel mates spend way, way, way to much time in the car. It's tedious and boring.

4) There's no movement of the plot. The plot is one major flatline. When we read, we expect the plot to move at an even pace, and all of the scenes have to build up on each other, like a flight of stairs. That doesn't happen. This is a very long and a very boring read.

5) The characters. The characters are flat, including Reacher. Honestly, all of the characters are boring and interchangeable. They have no substance or quality to them.

6). Reacher threatens a child. This is horrible! Never would I even think Reacher would threaten a child.

I think that one of two things happened with this book. 1) Lee Child never wrote this. If someone told me that he turned over notes and chapter outlines, like James Patterson does, then I'd believe them. 2) If Lee Child did write this, then he didn't give his best effort, and he's a sell out. He's just interested in making money, and not making a good quality story, like he has in the past. If this is the case, then it's a slap in the face to the fans.

I have heard that Lee was giving some thoughts on how and when he would end the series. If he's even thinking that way, then it's time to end it. I didn't like The Affair, and gave him a pass on it. However, I can't this time around. If he's thinking about ending this series, then he needs to do it now, before it's too late, and it already might be to late.

I can honestly say that I'll never buy another Lee Child book again. I'll get them at at the library, but never again will I spend my money on the books, I've been burned twice. As the saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." Indeed, shame on me. It's a mistake I won't be making again.

Honestly, this book is a waste of time. If you have to get it, then get it at the library. It honestly kills me to say that about a Reacher book.
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164 of 185 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars A Terrible Decline in Quality September 11, 2012
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have enjoyed the Reacher series quite a bit and have read them all more than once. But I was very disappointed in this one. The plot is convoluted, un-necessarily obscure and ploddingly slow. Lots of time in cars. Endless commentary on the virtues of the Ford Crown Vic. And no action until the very end. The author must know that an effort like this one is going to be characterized either as just written for the money or as proof that he has run out of inspiration. Also, why would anyone persist in using the diminutive Tom Cruise in the movie role when fans almost universally reject him as having anything to do with the Reacher character?
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143 of 161 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing September 13, 2012
By Ken
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have every Jack Reacher book (in my Kindle) and I have enjoyed most of them. I was very disappointed to learn that Tom Cruise has been cast to play Jack Reacher; it's as if they expect us to totally ignore one of the most central elements of the character: his size and physicality. Now, in this book, it seems that Lee Child is expecting us to ignore these usual elements of most Reacher novels: suspense and entertainment. I found this book to be very boring, interspersed with illogical dialogue and improbable action. Far too much time is spent on conversations and descriptions that do not matter at all...usually, when Mr. Child devotes such time to a description or a conversation, you know it is going somewhere: a plot development. In this book, there are so many pointless developments that never go anywhere; case in point: when the sheriff dies, I fully expected to read that what he thought was a heart attack as he died (although that wasn't clearly spelled out in his thinking) would actually be that he had been shot by a sniper, and that it would be an important twist. Instead, it just served as a means to give Reacher access to a car. The sheriff was, as so many other characters in this book, poorly developed and not essential to the plot at all...and a waste of time. Which, I am sad to say, is my summary of this book: a waste of time. If this was the first Jack Reacher novel I had read, I wouldn't read another. This is certainly not Lee Child's best effort, and coupled with the abomination of Tom Cruise playing Reacher in the movie, I have to wonder if Mr. Child is just building up his retirement fund, and has lost interest completely in writing good fiction.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
2.0 out of 5 stars Who kidnapped Lee Child?
Luckily for me, I didn't spend any money on this book. I have been an ardent fan of the Reacher series from Day One, and this one comes across like it was written by someone else... Read more
Published 1 day ago by James Bower
5.0 out of 5 stars one of the better Reacher stories
Much cleaner than many of the more recent books.

Could not put it down. A very fun ride all the way to the end.
Published 2 days ago by MAJ BZ1
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book by Lee Child
Jack Reacher is awesome - the books always have a surprise ending that I enjoy. Although I believe the frst books did have a little more action.
Published 2 days ago by Judy Falk
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Jack Reacher read!
Wanted Man is a great Jack Reacher read! All of you Lee Child/Jack Reacher series readers know what I mean.
Published 4 days ago by Steve Emery
4.0 out of 5 stars A good action read!
This one kept me second guessing myself. Reacher is larger than life and always a step ahead. I would recommend this book to any one who has a love/hate relationship with action... Read more
Published 4 days ago by Donna
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
You loved the characters and weren't sure who was good or bad about the different characters. I can't wait to read his next one!
Published 5 days ago by Donia Eddy
2.0 out of 5 stars What happened???
I, too, have enjoyed the Jack Reacher series and was sorry to write this review. There were so many places in this book that could have been so much shorter rather than drawn out. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Ellen Rappaport
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful writer
Can't stop reading these stories. Lee Childs is such a great author whom I hope keeps more of these stories coming.
Published 5 days ago by CaroleS
4.0 out of 5 stars Not the typical Jack Reacher story.
I liked the book because I like the Jack Reacher character. This book was very different from all the others. Read more
Published 6 days ago by D. Plotts
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Jack Reacher
Almost done with this book!~ Can't believe I've put it down. I think it's one of Lee Child's best Reacher novels yet! My dad agrees!!
Published 7 days ago by HoJo
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Tom Cruise? Really?!?
Tom Cruise? Was Mickey Rooney not available?
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He has to pay Tom Cruise's salary you know.
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That's sarcasm... right? ;)
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