Die Trying: The second gripping Jack Reacher novel in the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling thriller series

Lee Child

Sept 2008 · Jack Reacher Book 2 · Random House

About this eBook

'Cunning, explosive . . . A thumping good read.' Time Out

Jack Reacher, alone, strolling nowhere.

A Chicago street in bright sunshine. A young woman, struggling on crutches. Reacher offers her a steadying arm.

And turns to see a handgun aimed at his stomach.

Chained in a dark van racing across America, Reacher doesn't know why they've been kidnapped. The woman claims to be FBI. She's certainly tough enough. But at their remote destination, will raw courage be enough to overcome the hopeless odds?

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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Die Trying is the 2nd in the series.

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Ratings and reviews

A great read, but I think the story got stuck at a couple of points. There were a few repeated failures for Jack to face, almost like he was actively avoiding learning from his mistakes. I didn't like the switch from 1st person as was the format of the first book, but once I'd read the first few pages the story drew me in. Glad I've read it, and will likely read again.

I've read a few Jack Reacher novels, and quite enjoyed them, but this one leaves me feeling the author was filling pages, rather than telling the story. The first 200 pages were readable, but then the author fell into over describing irrelevant information, repeatedly. 4 times in as many pages, we were told how one specific type of firearm Reacher was carrying, and why he preferred it. The story then didn't progress until the last 80 pages.. I couldn't finish this novel.

My second Reacher book, and it was good. The storyline was a bit of a jump at times but no big deal. The interaction between Holly and Reacher was not great, but good. Reacher at times seems superhuman, his shooting skills, his near super human strength, his Sherlock Holmes-esq level of deduction, his memory to name the few that come to mind. I wonder what his highest score in scrabble is. However when you are in a crisis like Holly, then hes the man you want along side you (or Jason Bourne or James Bond or Ethan Hunt). Reacher foils the neo-nazi plot, rescues the woman and does it without breaking into a sweat. Staring death in the face, he smiles, before he kicks the grim reaper between the legs, and then upper-cuts him into next week. I wonder who would win in a fight between Chuck Norris and Reacher. It would be a close run thing. The plot has a couple of twists in it, nothing to taxing, and the plot moves along at a good pace. I look forward to the next Reacher novel I read.

About the author

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories. He is the recipient of many prizes, most recently the CWA’s Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction.

Jack Reacher, the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise, was based on the novel One Shot, and the second is Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.