Killing Floor

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Summary: More, more, more!
Review: Mr. Child writes some of the most intellectual fiction I've read in years! Jack Reacher has my vote, whatever he wants to run for. This character is so solid, so capable, so intelligent, and so human that I'd like to write him a letter.

It's hard to rave about Mr. Child's books without giving away important points of the story. Practically the minute Jack Reacher arrives in the small, perfect town in Georgia, he is arrested for murder. The chief of police swears that he saw Jack at the crime scene, and Jack is forced to spend the weekend in state lock-up, where he must fight for survival. But Jack has an alibi for the time of the murder and is released. However, the killings are just beginning . . . .

I sincerely hope we will be having Jack Reacher adventures well into the future.

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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Very good book! Read about 70% of it in one day. I couldn't put the book down.

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Summary: A Killer of a Book!
Review: If you like Sylvester Stallone or Steven Sagal's movies, this book is for you! Excitement and intrigue on every page! Jack Reacher is a lonely figure. OK, - this story's beginning is a stretch but the exciting reading is worth it. My kind of book! It delivers! You read the review of the book now get ready for an exciting ride. Several tense confrontations lead up to a power packed ending...and a little sad one too. On to Lee Child's next book. Worth the read.

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Summary: How much can you suspend your disbelief?
Review: To enjoy this book you have to buy into a whole lot of coincidences. Huge coincidences. The first being that the main character just happens to get off the bus in a small town in the middle of Georgia, gets arrested for murder, then finds out the dead guy is someone he knows and hasn't seen in years. You have to buy that a police officer will fall instantly in love with a murder suspect/drifter. You have to buy that the police routinely go along with the execution of the bad guys without even bothering to take them in for questioning. You have to buy huge leaps of logic that are passed off as reasonable deduction. You have to buy that no one else in the federal government would be involved with this particular investigation. I could go on, but I don't want to give away too much of the plot for anyone that still might want to read the book. I'd give it one star but I'm cutting the author some slack since this is his first book.

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Summary: PART GOOD----PART NOT SO GOOD!!!!
Review: My first book by Lee Child. It was good enough that I will get another one but it was not great. Jack Reacher is picked up by the police department for murder. He has only been in town a short while and has committed no crime. The story goes from there to finding cops on the take as well as others in the town. I kept thinking Reacher would change into a Superman costume. He can take out as many men as they send and no harm to him. Parts of the book was very unbelieveable. However, part of it could really hold your attention. There was to much detail about the printing of the money, in my openion. All in all a fair read. If you like a lot of action with a super human and all turns out well, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Glad for a new author
Review: Before I saw this book at the bookstore I had never heard of Lee Child. I am glad a stumbled upon this book and the others he has written. Jack Reacher, the main character is an ex-military drifter who seems to be just making his way around aimlessly. He ends up in some sticky situations and making unlikely friends.
If you like a good plot, quick pace and imaginative writing style you will like Lee Child's "Killing Floor".

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Summary: Far from a five star book!
Review: Look, this is just not a well written book. The hero is super human (and tells you as much every other page), the plot hinges on huge coincidences, and the author's style reads like a bad film noir script. If you want a quick read that won't make you think much, go for it.

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Summary: I give it three shrugs up...
Review: At some point during this story, dear reader will stop, shrug to himself and think of his favorite television/movie action hero playing the part of the incredible Jack Reacher. And then dear reader will shrug again and shrug again and shrug again. He'll probably shrug until his shoulders are permanently stationed next to his ears. Jack Reacher is an ex-military wanderer. He's got nothing, therefore he's got nothing to lose. He decides to spend the months after his release from the military aimlessly drifting around the country. All is well until he reaches the perfect little berg of Margrave, Georgia, where everything (including their speech dialect) is just a little too perfect! I'll refrain from the details, else I would spoil the story for dear-reader-to-be. Child creates an original story on an old theme and fills in the gaps with a good overdose of action. Sometimes the script is just too darn wordy and overworked. Lee Childs IS a television writer by trade and this, his first printed publication desperately hints toward a script rather than a story. The ending is worthy of a made-for-television-movie. I'm going to have to shrug off this author for a while, but have decided that I'll give him one more shrugging chance when I read one of his newest shrugging works. Maybe he will have given up that shrugging habit that compelled him to write some variation of the word on every page at least five times.

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Summary: Lots a action
Review: Picked the book up at the local library book sale. What a treat. Have been looking for someone as good as Stephen Hunter, well I have found him. Jack Reacher is all the things we look for in a macho action novel. Glad I started with the first one and will work forward with the rest. Again, a great book.

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Summary: Jack Reacher's debut novel.
Review: Having already read three other Jack Reacher novels, I finally got around to reading "Killing Floor," the first in Lee Child's popular series. Here is the Jack Reacher that we know and love--macho wanderer, man of few words, quick with his fists, an expert at weaponry, fearless and unforgiving.

Jack is passing through Margrave, Georgia. It is a town that is surprising clean and well-kept, considering that most of the residents have little visible source of income. Jack intends to stay for a brief period to look up some history about a blind musician, and then he intends to move on. However, Jack is arrested for a vicious crime that he did not commit, and he then becomes embroiled in a murder investigation that involves his brother.

It turns out that Margrave is a corrupt town, rotten to the core. With the help of a few good police officers (one of whom makes for a sexy love interest), Reacher gets to the heart of an extremely profitable criminal operation run by some very ruthless and powerful men.

"Killing Floor" is a fast-moving, engrossing and extremely violent thriller. Reacher is quick-witted, unerring in his instincts, and relentless in his pursuit of justice. One of Reacher's quirks is that he rarely changes his clothes, since he hates to be bothered with laundry. Since he never carries luggage and he only showers when he gets a chance, he must be fairly malodorous. Surprisingly, no one seems to notice.

I enjoyed "Killing Floor," recognizing it for the entertaining fairy tale that it is. Child does not try for realism. If you can stomach tremendous carnage and you like non-stop action, then you will enjoy "Killing Floor".