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  • Echo Burning

  • Jack Reacher 5
  • By: Lee Child
  • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
  • Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,570 ratings)
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Echo Burning

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Summary

Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful. But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her.

Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.J ack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.

©2011 Lee Child (P)2013 Isis Publishing Ltd, Random House Audiobooks

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Good but not the best story

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

yes

What about Jeff Harding’s performance did you like?

much better than the narrator of the previous book.

Any additional comments?

had random parts where music played in the background for no reason

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Electric atmosphere helps build the tension

Where does Echo Burning rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

The narrator made this a better story than it really was, a convincing accent help create a sense of being in Texas.

If you’ve listened to books by Lee Child before, how does this one compare?

Not my favourite but still enjoyed the thriller and left me wanting to hear more

Which scene did you most enjoy?

The scene when they were all sat around the table at the Red ranch prior to it burning down

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The story about the mexicans being hunted like wild animals when crossing the border

Any additional comments?

This is the 3rd Jack Reacher audiobook I've listen to and found this narrator to be the best.

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Brilliant!


The truly awful thing about this book is that it's very likely based on fact. Which reminds one that no amount of legislation will ever conquer entrenched prejudice and bigotry.
All the gods be thanked for men like Reacher!
Or should I say? - writers like Lee Child.

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What's not to like?

I am late to Lee Child and the Jack Reacher series, if you are too you will love these books. Interesting exciting stuff. Just glad there are loads of new ones to get to.

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Lost it's way a little

All of the other books in this series have been engaging from the start, pacy and with plenty of action. I found this one a bit pedestrian. It was slow to get started and really nothing much happened in the first two thirds of the book. I don't understand all of the glowing reviews in comparison with the previous 4 Jack Reacher books. It almost put me off getting the 6th in the series but it turned out that that one was my favorite so far.

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  • 07-06-13

'Reacher said nothing'

Funny wild west story. So far the most realistic of the books if read in order. Narrator much better too and seems to do all the rest as far as I can see. :)

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Holes in the plot

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I stuck with it but the plot does not have a believable base, and so as I am off sick, I thought I would just give it a go. If I had been active I would have dumped it.

Has Echo Burning put you off other books in this genre?

No, as this is one of hundreds that I have listened to and read

Which character – as performed by Jeff Harding – was your favourite?

Usually Jack Reacher, but none grabbed me here.

Could you see Echo Burning being made into a movie or a TV series? Who would the stars be?

I could not.

Any additional comments?

I do not like answering inapt questions on book reviews. The start of the plot does not add up. Jack Reacher is a savvy, world alert man, and the whole pick up line did not hold water at all.

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  • 28-05-14

Captivating

Any additional comments?

Reacher is becoming an addiction. Tense and thrilling, I was almost feeling sorry for those characters that chose to mess with the 'special investigator'.

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Predictable but Enjoyable Nevertheless!

What did you like most about Echo Burning?

I love the Jack Reacher character and in this Texan adventure you get a real sense of the environment and resident prejudice as the plot enfolds with its twists and turns.

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One of my favourite Reacher stories.

I love all of the reacher stories but this is one of my particular favourites.

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