Echo Burning
Jack Reacher 5
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Echo Burning
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Harding
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By:
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Lee Child
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**
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.
Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series.
"Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good." (Daily Mail)
‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times
©2011 Lee Child (P)2013 Isis Publishing Ltd, Random House Audiobooks
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Reacher said nothing
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More of a who done it?
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Another great read
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If you could sum up Echo Burning in three words, what would they be?
Reacher Said NothingWhat did you like best about this story?
It was fast paced from start to finishWhich scene did you most enjoy?
The gunfight on the MesaWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When Reacher was laughing lying in the mud on the MesaThe Best Jack Reacher Yet!!
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I liked the idea that there was something Reacher would say no to. He knows himself well enough to realize that he’s saying no not because the idea of killing a bad man bothers him but because he lacks the personal involvement he needs before he can unleash his righteous anger. Reacher sees himself as a hot-headed killer, not a cold-blooded one.
The plot of “Echo Burning” has more mystery to it than some of the Reacher books. It seems everyone Reacher meets lies to him. Some much so that he begins to doubt his own judgement. Some of the lies are so beautifully told that I shared Reacher’s inability to distinguish truth from deception. This effect was added to by the fact that the good guys are less good and the bad guys less bad than in the typical Jack Reacher novel. Reach is invited to follow in the footsteps of a famous Texas lawman, Clay Allison, who “ never killed a man that did not need killing” but to do that, he’d first have to figure out who deserves to die.
Lee Child turns up the heat by having a parallel story about a killing crew being brough to Texas to take out specific targets. As the reader, you know these stories are connected but making the connection gives you something else to puzzle over.
The deception in the book shows how vulnerable Reacher’s “don’t mess with me or mine” code makes him to being turned into a weapon targeted by someone else’s agenda. At times, Reacher seems border-line sane in this novel. He’s rational but his view of what constitutes a normal reaction to a threat and his disregard for the law is so far out of line that is seems pathological.
In “Echo Burning” Lee Child makes Texas itself a character in his story. I’ve only been to Texas a few times, and only to the big cities on business, but Lee Child’s description of the State matched my memory: a mix of heat and humidity that means you can sweat through your clothes stepping from air-conditioned car to air-conditioned lobby, a distance between places that means people think nothing of driving an hour to get to a restaurant, huge skies and endless, deserted roads.
Lee Child gives a very unforgiving view of the Texas legal system as being on the side of the rich and powerful. He also brings anti-latino racism into sharp focus.
My favourite character in the book was Ellie, an earnest and brave six and a half year old little girl who is impossible not to root for.
Action-packed thriller with a twisty plot
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