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Title: Die Trying
Author: Lee Child
Read By: Dick Hill
Copyright: 1998
Audiobook Copyright: 1998
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Series Name: Jack Reacher
Position in Series: 02
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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Jack Reacher meets an attractive woman struggling along a Chicago street
with her crutches. He stops to offer a steadying arm, and then they
both turn to face twin handguns aimed at them. Reacher and the woman
- who claims to be an FBI agent - are kidnapped and taken 2000 miles
across America.
Amazon.com
Television writer Lee Child's otherwise riveting first thriller, Killing
Floor, was criticized by some reviewers because of an unconvincing coincidence
at its center. Child addresses that problem in his second book--and
thumbs his nose at those reviewers--by having his hero, ex-military
policeman Jack Reacher, just happen to be walking by a Chicago dry cleaner
when an attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson comes out carrying
nine expensive outfits and a crutch to support her soccer-injured knee.
As Holly stumbles, Reacher grabs her and her garments--which gets him
kidnapped along with her by a trio of very determined badguys. "He had
no problem with how he had gotten grabbed up in the first place," Child
writes. "Just a freak of chance had put him alongside Holly Johnson
at the exact time the snatch was going down. He was comfortable with
that. He understood freak chances. Life was built out of freak chances,
however much people would like to pretend otherwise." Lucky for Holly--whose
father just happens to be an Army general and current head of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, thus making her a tempting target for a bunch of Montana-based
extremists--Reacher still has all the skills and strengths associated
with his former occupation. And Child still knows how to write scenes
of violent action better than virtually anyone else around. Dick Adler-
From Library Journal
Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time
when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the
wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the
country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he
has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers,
a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic
leader. Child's tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays
Reacher's efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering
of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks
thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable
rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries. Michael Adams,
CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York
From AudioFile
Listening to the voice of Dick Hill, one doesn't doubt that the powerful
Jack Reacher has just retired from the Military Police. He booms as
he reluctantly relates the winning of dozens of "damn medals" while
he and fellow kidnap victim Holly get acquainted. Hill seems strained
in the female voice, so Reacher is more drawn to Holly than the listener
can be. He does far better at giving the overweight militia commander
a high-pitched, whiny voice listeners can despise. Add FBI agents, politicians
and cult members and a gripping crisis created by Child and Hill. R.N.
(c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
From Kirkus Reviews
Furiously suspenseful, but brain-dead second volume in Child's gratuitously
derivative Jack Reacher action series (Killing Floor, 1997). Reacher,
a former Army Military Police Major, has now moved on to Chicago, where
he gallantly assists a beautiful mystery woman hobbling on a crutch
with her dry cleaning. Seconds later, Reacher and the woman, FBI agent
Holly Johnson (also daughter of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, as well as goddaughter of the President), are kidnaped by armed
gunmen. Handcuffed together and tossed in the back of a van, the two
are taken to the Montana mountain stronghold of Beau Borken, a fat,
ugly, psychopathically vicious neo-Nazi militia leader given to sawing
the arms off day laborers and making windy speeches about how he brilliant
he is. Of course, the kidnappers don't know that they have a former
military police major in their clutches who, in addition to having a
Silver Star for heroism, is one of the best snipers the Army has ever
produced, can pull iron rings out of barn doors, and kill bad guys with
lit cigarettes. Meanwhile, a team of FBI agents, at least one of whom
is a mole leaking information to Borken, identify Reacher from a reconstructed
photo taken from the dry cleaner's surveillance camera. Borken, impressed
with Reacher's military record, lectures him about his brilliant plan
to overthrow the US using a hijacked Army missile unit, with Holly held
as a hostage in a specially constructed, dynamite-lined prison cell.
Borken stupidly lets Reacher best him in a shooting match, then grandiosely
turns his back on his captives enough times for Reacher and Holly to
escape, cause havoc, get captured, escape, make love in the woods, cause
more havoc, and get captured again, as General Johnson, FBI Director
Harlan Webster, and General Garber, Reacher's former commander, plan
a covert strike on Borken's fortress thats certain to fail. Another
Rogue Warrior meets Die Hard with all the typical over-the-top plotting,
blood-splattering ultraviolence, lock-jawed heroics and the dumbest
villains this side of Ruby Ridge.
Book Description
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher returns in a gutsy novel of heart-
stopping action...
When a mysterious woman is kidnapped by a politically motivated fringe
group and taken to their compound, Jack Reacher must help her escape
with her life--from the inside out...
About the Author
Lee Child is the New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher
series. The Killing Floor, his debut, won two awards for best first
mystery. Child, a native of England, is a former television writer.
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