I generally like the Reacher series, this book was filled with too many run on descriptive words. Unnecessary details that caused the story to drag on and not for the better.

Great book as all his books are.

Typically great.

IMHO: This Reacher story seemed to take awhile to get going and also seemed to drag on towards the ending. If you’re reading them in order like me, you may want to skip this one and come back for it later. Just okay.

This. Book, Nothing to Lose, is masterfully written as are all of the Authors books about Jack Reacher. IF you want non-stop action, read this book to see what one man can do.

Reacher always in the wrong place at the right time!

“Hope” is what I had from reading the previous Jack Reacher Novel. “Despair” is what I have while reading this novel. Good Lord. 200 pages of nothing. How many ways can we describe drinking a cup of coffee? And when Reacher is explaining something and says “Later,” you won’t know until the end of the book. Then Child ties it all up with a pretty bow.

This was the first Jack Reacher novel I read. Don’t ask me why I started here but I did and it was good enough to make me start at the beginning and they just keep getting better.

Reacher spends the first 30% of the book beating up people just because they annoy him & before he even suspects anything is wrong, much less know who is guilty. Very disappointing for a character who usually does what is right. He’s the bully at the start & the fact that he discovers the plot by the end never makes up for his attacks at the start when he didn’t know.

I am a huge Jack Reacher fan and. Probably read over a dozen of these books. So my muted comments here might be only reflective of the fact that I am trying of the series. I like them because they are easy to read, entertaining , and predictable. The last attribute could account for why I am tiring o fhem. Fiction always call for you to suspend belief. But Lee Child asks a lot of this from us. We are to believe that Jack Reacher only has some cash, a toothbrush, an ATM card, and an expired US passport. He buys new clothes rather than wash old ones. He mush comb his hair with his hand. He has no driver’s license but always ends up driving some one else’s car. He always beds another woman, often a cop, with non-descriptive sex. He sometimes finds trouble by accident or it finds him. This story has him involved for few if any personal reasons, other than the fact that he wanted to visit a town named “Despair” and then became more curious about its dubious activities when the powers running the town asked him to leave. There are the three or four fights that he always wins, is always outnumbered, and always escapes with no two much as flesh wound. At the end of the story he moves on. In the end, the story is neither better or worse than many others, although the Killing Floor seems to have been the best plot. Will I read more Reacher books? Maybe. But this one made me pause and ask why.