Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
by Lee Child
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Book Reviews of Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, No. 1)
Book Review: OXIGEN AND CONVINCING
Summary: 5 Stars
Child refreshes with his character the rarefied atmosphere of PI's, seems credible, with power of deduction (although miles behind Mr. Holmes) and full of action, Mr. Reacher knowledge of weapons is laudable and the plot keeps suspense and emotion. For being the first of his novels I think its a great achievement that explains the awards and recognition already granted.
Blues singers of the past, southern ambiance and gorgeous police female companion (sensual, intelligent and full of desire) loks like the perfect companion for him but his fate (greek's ancient manners) is to suffer solitude and resignation makes the writing not only in solid grays but touches of color here and there. Splendid!
The villians are loaded with lots of perversion and you are against them beyond common sense.
For me was a wonderful "escape literature" for this summer, eager to read the second and third and fourth and...
hope you enjoy the same!
Book Review: Jack Reacher Is A Believable Super Hero
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my second Jack Reacher read. I think the author does a great job creating page turning excitement. Even though many of Reacher's exploits may seem over the top. They are achieved in a plausible way. Reacher's brother was a top level treasury department boss who was the top expert in money counterfitting. He came to a small town in Georgia to meet with a former bank executive who was having second thoughts about participating in the conspiracy. He was assassinated and brutally mutilated beyond recognition. Reacher, a former military officer and investigator, at the time, was basically a drifter. Coincidently, he decided to stop off in the town to find information about a long time favorite blues player of his who had been murdered years ago. The excitement begins and flows non stop until Reacher solves the case of his brothers murder as well as brings down the whole criminal operation which had corrupted much of the town. Top Notch.Book Review: Reacher at his best
Summary: 5 Stars
Lee Child`s creation is brilliant for a series of books, the transient Jack Reacher finds himself in tiny Margrave, Georgia, and is almost immediately arrested, if briefly, as a murder suspect. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that one of the victims is his brother, a brilliant U.S. Treasury agent. Reacher himself is no slouch; a former military policeman, he can dispatch villains with an astonishing array of weapons, including various parts of his body. In the company of a straight-arrow detective and a beautiful lady cop, Reacher soon unearths a conspiracy stretching through the little town and beyond. Blood flows freely, terrible threats are made and carried out, and body parts accumulate. First novelist Child, a former television writer, stretches coincidence outrageously in this would-be noir outing, whose hero is creepily amoral, violent, and generally unpleasant. As a published author myself I`m in awe of Child`s talent.Book Review: An American Tradition-Knight in Tarnished Armor
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the first in an established series that has a lot of first-timer mistakes. Many of the decisions/actions that the female characters choose seem very much out of a typical female reaction. Like, sure, I'm going to invite a homeless, recently released prisoner into my home/bed and leave him alone while I go to work. Duh! But the central figure--Jack Reacher--comes right out of that superb American tradition probably established by Dashiel Hamlett going through the Raymond Chandler-John D. MacDonald and now bringing us back around. Many of the newer "adventure" style novels either tend toward silliness (Clive Cussler), a dementia to detail (Tom Clancy Inc.) or have blood thirsty female leads. This novel leans more towards the old school notion of the Lone Wolf good guy making a difference on shady moral ground. Horrific violence, but still a welcome addition to an outstanding group of American anti-hereos.Book Review: The Stepford Town, the Good Old Boys, and the Loner
Summary: 3 Stars
A body is found in the antiseptic Georgia town so police do the only thing logical -- arrest the man just off the bus in a rainstorm, there to find out about the blind black blues singer from 60 years ago.
There's the state prison, the rich young ruler, the Harvard-educated policeman, a couple of elderly barbers, and the new guy, who, incidentally, is a West-Point graduate recently of the MP's. And a woman cop.
Things unpeel onion-wise with questions about how the tiny town on the way to nowhere looks like a movie set, how the first and second men were killed, why an apparent suicide-by-hanging was let go at that, why the young guy had been going to work as usual, eighteen months after he'd been fired from his day job.
Break-neck action, slam-bang conclusion, and the only ending reasonably possible.
Right there with your Sam Spades and Lew Archer.