Echo Burning
Ratings73
Average rating3.7
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Ratings73
Average rating3.7
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review).
Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.
She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl...and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now.
Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead-and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.
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Pretty good, bit of a slow burner (no pun intended) as it doesn't appear to be going anywhere and it isn't as big a plot as you would normally expect for Reacher, especially after the serial killer story in The Visitor.
Not disappointed though, yet to find one of the series that genuinely let me down.
nothing remarkable here, just good, solid action. Reacher finds himself in an improbably situation, and handles it as only he can. Bond only wishes he was this good.
Typical Jack Reacher
Solid story, typical Jack Reacher novel. The thing I like the most about these stories is there is very little deus ex machina. Jack wins because Jack is better than everyone around him.
4.5 ⭐️
This series has absolutely solidified itself as one of my favorite ones of all time!
And this book is another great entry in it.
If you like desert settings, you will love this one - i could practically feel the heat! Based on that, I recommend you read this one in the summer.
Can't say much more than what I have already said before - Lee Child has an amazing writing style that makes you feel like you are right there and experiencing the things with the characters. He also has a LOT of knowledge about everything he puts into his books and I was once more impressed by his ability to weave tons of information into every scene, without it feeling like exposition for even a second.
I took away half star, because I did not like how he built Carmen's character. I thought she deserved a bit better.
Still, I had THE BEST time reading this book and I can't wait to continue with the rest of the series!
Series
29 primary books42 released booksJack Reacher is a 48-book series with 29 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Lee Child, Marie Rahn, and 7 others.
Series
27 primary books41 released booksJack Reacher Chronological Order is a 41-book series with 27 primary works first released in 1997 with contributions by Lee Child, Jakob Levinsen, and 8 others.
