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	• 61 Hours: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher Novels) Lee Child Delacorte Press, 2010 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 228 reviews view larger image
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61 Hours

In an ironic twist, Lee Child's iconic protagonist, Jack Reacher, is a passenger on a bus otherwise occupied by tourists when the bus crashes somewhere in the middle of nowhere, or more correctly in the middle of South Dakota, in the dead of winter. [No intent to cast aspersions on South Dakota here, but the town's residents speak of it exactly that way.] The irony comes in because the crash is precipitated by a driver who is a conspirator in a plan to kill one of the town's residents, an elderly woman who witnessed a crime and will be the prosecutor's whole case when it comes up for trial, one month from the time the tale begins.

Reacher is forced to stay in the town as the highways are all closed down due to the snowstorm which has just reached the area. And from the first page till nearly the last, the eponymous countdown begins, with the reader being regularly reminded how much time remains, until the cliffhanger ending that has been much discussed and in some circles criticized as sort of a cheap trip. Of course, YMMV, but I for one always finish a Lee Child book feeling like I can't wait for the next one anyway - the anxiety is just that much greater in this instance.

I thought Reacher is perhaps best described by one of the characters as "the sort of guy who sees things five seconds before the rest of the world." At one point he is more or less appointed as being in charge of the witness' safety, when he isn't off chasing clues or bad guys, with several of the players placed in jeopardy, Reacher not least among them. A potential love interest comes into play as well, despite the fact that Reacher and the woman in question have never met. No, it's not online dating: They have much in common, including the fact that she now heads an elite unit within the government of which Reacher was the first, and founding, CO.

The book is written with the wit and intelligence and gripping suspense that one expects in any Lee Child/Jack Reacher novel, and finding it there in ample supply is just as gratifying and pleasurable as always, cliffhanger notwithstanding. Recommended.

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Not Quite Up to Previous Standards

I'm a big fan of Jack Reacher. He is a tough guy (ex-Military Police)to the nth degree and also has a Sherlock Holmes' type of ability to figure things out. Which is why this novel let me down. I had the bad guy figured out half way through, so why didn't Reacher? He, at the end, admits he should have known in hour 31 instead of at hour 61 and he should have.

The toughness is still there, the tense writing is still there, but I also felt the plot was bordering on the absurd in regards to the midget sociopath drug-lord and the storing of his ill-gotten gains in a certain place. Really?

Still, as always, couldn't put the book down.

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Jack Reacher is back.

The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child?s latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page.

Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she?s going to live long enough to testify, she?ll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

Reacher?s original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed?but so is the woman whose life he?ll risk his own to save.

In 61 Hours, Lee Child has written a showdown thriller with an explosive ending that readers will talk about for a long time to come.

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