Nothing to Lose by Lee Child
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This book is the twelfth in the series of Jack Reacher novels. I have read all of them and this story is one of the best. It begins in Colorado with our hero stuck between two towns: Hope and Despair. The ex-military police Major and veteran of the first Iraq war is arrested, Rambo-esque, in the town of Despair, tried and convicted without legal council and sentenced to be escorted out of town; told never to return. Reacher is a man who does not take kindly to being pushed. He also is a man who is curious. Why was he given the bum’s rush for no apparent reason? He figures that the town has something to hide. Despair is a “company town” owned and run by an elderly man who has the biggest salvage business in the state. Why would a junk yard need an impregnable fence and roads secured by elite Army police? As pieces of information are collected, Reacher forms a union with a policewoman from Hope in hopes of finding answers. Lee Childhas created a character that is a present-day superhero: A-modern-day-Madonna-like-cowboy living in a materialistic world. Reacher’s moral code is impeccable. If he is on your side, you’re blessed with a man who won’t back down until the problem is solved. If he’s not on your side, look out! It is refreshing to find a character whose fears in life are not like any normal person. He is a warrior who is anti-war. If looking for light-reading to escape reality for as long as it takes to absorb 400 pages of some serious fantasy payback, this is the book.