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Awards
Winner of Specsavers National Book Awards: Crime Book of the Year available on iBookstore 2012.
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Description
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride. But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway. There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys...Will they get through because the three are innocent? Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy? With his signature Swiss-watch plotting and heart-thumping suspense, "A Wanted Man" shows Lee Child at his sublimely skilful best. "He could take out Bond, Dirty Harry, Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt with both hands tied behind his back,. And then sleep with their girlfriends two at a time before getting the last bus out of town". ("Sun").
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in acknowledgment of Lee Child receiving the Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers Association for lifetime achievement in crime writing, this month's book is A Wanted Man. It's the 17th in the Jack Reacher series and was awarded the "thriller and crime novel of the year" award by the UK National Book Awards.
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Our favourite book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn has been in the New York best sellers list for the last 15 weeks now. But the latest Jack Reacher book "A Wanted Man" by Lee Child now has top billing. I know we have a lot of Lee Child fans. Can anyone recommend a book for newcomers to his work?
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jon's grandma commented:
comment..."The Killing Floor", the first of the Reacher books, I believe. His novels are so compelling... especially the early ones.
Toshie commented:
Thanks for that. Have you read A Wanted Man? What did you think of this compared to the others?
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Toshie commented:
I'm enjoying this book. Lee Child has a knack of creating tension.
Toshie commented:
At well over 6feet tall, hands the size of frozen chooks and now with a broken nose, Jack Reacher is a very unlikely person you would pick up hitchhiking, but thats exactly what three occupants of a car do in the first part of Lee Childs novel A Wanted Man. This is Child's 37th book featuring the now ex-military criminal police major . Unemployed and essentially homeless, Reacher has become a bit of a vigilante - unable to turn a blind eye to any wrongs. I quite liked the book and was literally captured by being in the car with Reacher and his three travelling companions. Child really conveyed the tension and game playing well. But having read some other comments and reviews it's this non-action start that readers didn't like. Some saying this was one of the weakest of the Reacher series. Didn't bother me at all and I liked the constriction of being in the car and the psychology of it. And really there was certainly enough action later on to take care of any earlier deficit. What do others think?