Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
by Lee Child
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Author: Lee ChildEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0425206246
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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- ISBN13: 9780425206249
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Book Reviews of Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
Book Review: Some Mysterys Take Time to Unravel
Summary: 4 Stars
I believe I have now read all of the Jack Reacher series. I started with the most recent one and have been working my way back and forth ever since. I can't agree with those who didn't like this book. I noted the incorrect mention of a bullet containng a "firing pin" instead of a primer, but if I were to drop every book that has a factual mistake, I would have a very short reading list.
In this novel, Reacher is continuing his odyssey of travel around the United States after being discharged from the US Army Muilitary Police with the rank of major. He is doing it on his thumb which this time leads to his being picked up by a young woman while making his way through West Texas.
As the ride progresses he learns that his ability to get a ride so quickly was not happenstance, but planned by her as she is looking for a man to help her with a problem she has in her life.
She is married to a man who beats her. He is currently in jail for tax evasion, but it is expected that he will be released soon. Her request of Reacher is a simple one. She wants him to kill him.
At the same time, we learn there is a group of contract killers loose in the same area. Their purpose and who hired them seem vague for much of the story, but as usual in a Racher novel, the stories intersect.
Reacher declines the role of assassin, but does agree to go with Carmen to the family homestead and to help her and her child escape it if she will only cooperate. The place is located in Echo, Texas.
Her husband is not home from prison very long before he is murdered and Carmen is arrested and charged. Reacher is convinced of her innocense, but as the story progresses it look as though the lady has been hiding a lot from him, to the point where she eventually confesses to the murder.
Yet, it does not sit well with Reacher who sets about to unravel the story of what is really going on.
I found this to be an interesting mystery and the telling of it to be on a par with most of the books Child has written. If you are a fan of the author and the character, I suggest you buy the paperback and form your own opinion.
Summary of Echo Burning (Jack Reacher, No. 5)
Thumbing across the west Texas desert, Jack Reacher has nowhere to go. Cruising the same stretch of blacktop is Carmen Greer. But the lift comes with a hitch. She's got a wild story to tell--about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic.
Jack Reacher is Spenser before Robert Parker domesticated his Boston PI--in fact, Reacher's even tougher than Hawk. He can inhale and exhale a few times and pump up his muscles so they make a bad character think twice about tangling with him. And he's spent enough time on the right side of the law to know how to operate in the gray zone if that's what it takes to save the fair maiden, punish the bad guys, and right any other wrongs he happens to encounter in the course of his wanderings. Echo Burning is vintage Lee Child, a smartly paced, intricately plotted, and masterfully characterized thriller starring Reacher, the ex-military cop who's so concerned about commitment to anything--a woman, possessions, a permanent address--that he only owns the clothes on his back. But he's the kind of justice-seeking guy you'd want on your side, especially if you were an abused wife trapped in a marriage you can't get out of until, and unless, somebody bumps off your old man.
Reacher's sympathetic, but he's not crazy. Nonetheless, he allows himself to be drawn into beautiful Carmen Greer's orbit, which ought to teach a guy not to hitchhike. Agreeing to protect her from the husband who's about to be released from jail and, according to Carmen, who's about to pay her back for tipping off the authorities to the tax fraud that landed him in prison, Reacher moves into the bunkhouse of the Echo, Texas, ranch that's owned by the bigoted, bitter, but powerful Greer family, which despises Carmen because she's Mexican and tolerates her only because she's Sloop Greer's wife and the mother of his child. The expected bloodshed ensues, but it's Sloop, not Carmen, who ends up with a bullet in his head. Reacher's convinced that Carmen acted in self-defense, even after other evidence comes to light that suggests there's more--and less--to her unhappy tale than even her own lawyer believes. This is the best Jack Reacher yet, smart, stylish, and convincing. If it's your first encounter with Child's work, be sure to check out his backlist--Running Blind, Tripwire, etc. --Jane Adams
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