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    Audiobook17 hours

    Echo Burning

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher.

    Thumbing across the scorched west Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty Carmen Greer. But for Reacher, the lift comes with a hitch. Carmen's got a story to tell, and it's a wild one. All about her husband, her family secrets, and a hometown that's pure Gothic. She's also got a plan. Jack Reacher's part of it. And before the sun sets, this ride could cost them both their lives.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 27, 2015
    ISBN9780451482280
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    Echo Burning
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    Lee Child

    Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.

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    • 5/5
      I loved book 5, and then twists and turns that had me reading and faster as I tried to "help"Jack Reacher get out of one mess after the next! Filled with non stop action with twists and turns I can hardly wait to read book 6!!
    • 4/5
      a little slow at first
    • 2/5
      Having read my first Jack Reacher book recently, "One Shot", and thoroughly enjoying it, I was keen to try a second one. However, "Echo Burning" didn't appeal. To be frank, I found it boring. There was too much emphasis on the weather - if I was told one more time how hot it was in Texas, I was going to scream! Also, I didn't like Reacher as a cowboy and the plot was convoluted. Very disappointing!
    • 5/5
      Forgot how much I like Jack Reacher!! Couldn't put this one down despite the fact that one has to suspend a goodly amount of disbelief. Just love the character of Jack Reacher. Child does a good job fleshing out all of his characters though. The plot is never terribly predictable and never, ever drags. Just a really enjoyable few hours of total escapism.
    • 5/5
      I couldn't help myself. I had to give it five stars. What a great story! Reacher is at his best, providing aid to a woman in distress. Much unfolds, from an abusive marriage to the killing of mexicans crossing the border illegally. He solves it all and tackles his enemies head on. Great stuff Mr Lee.
    • 1/5
      Lee Child has developed a character and a series with a large following who have bought thousands of copies of his books. If you are one of them, that's great. Carry on reading more installments of Jack Reacher's adventures.

      If you haven't read Echo Burning or are new to Lee Child, then you should know that this book is painfully awful.

      There are no believable people in Echo Burning, only stereotypes. The men are either black hats or white hats, and there's little doubt about who's which. The women are witches, princesses, or non-entities. So reading the book is akin to playing with a child's edition of Sleeping Beauty with pre-perforated punchouts that can be set up on an improvised stage.

      This weakness applies to Jack Reacher himself. He's a drifter constantly on the move from one cheap motel to another, travelling always to wherever the next bus is going. He travels with only a toothbrush, which he abandons in Chapter 1 and never replaces. He buys new cheap clothes every few days to avoid laundering the ones he's wearing. It's not clear how he shaves.

      We suspect early on that Reacher is a psychopath; any doubt disappears well before the end of the book. This could be interesting if Child made any use of it. He doesn't. Reacher behaves like a psychopath because that's the simplest way parts of the plot will work. Nevertheless he has a girlfriend who lives abroad. How someone with no home, no mailing address, and no phone could even begin a relationship, let alone maintain one, is unexplored.

      The writing is sloppy and undisciplined, and so the book is perhaps a third longer than suits its content. Once we've been told in detail about a woman's makeup, we can figure out for ourselves that there will be lipstick on the napkin she uses to dab her lips. All the occurances of the short paragraph, "Reacher said nothing," would fill many pages if collected. Other people also say nothing, so at times the dialogue threatens to fall eerily silent. Reacher becomes especially speechless just when communication would seem to be most necessary. Yet at other times his monologues last for pages. The gunfight --- you already knew there would be a gunfight, didn't you? --- takes place after a long, very busy, horribly hot day and after sunset in the deep darkness of the desert during a violent thunderstorm with torrential, bone-chilling rain. People die. Without a beat, Reacher returns to the ranch house and, as a west Texas version of Miss Marple, settles into the parlour with the survivors. In a debriefing that goes on and on he unravels the plot and unmasks the villain, who is present of course. This is pretty much redundant since, thanks to the big messy handprints that are all over the plot, we knew what was up long before.

      So the plotting isn't great either. An early and crucial incident relies on a criminal lawyer who doesn't know his legal rights and can't recognize fake FBI insignia in full daylight. Child makes much of Reacher's uncanny intuition and understanding of the criminal mind. Before anyone knows for sure that one of the victims is even dead, Reacher is able to tell the police exactly where --- in the unmarked desert --- they will find the body. At the end of the book, many pages reconstruct how Reacher uses his little grey cells to figure out which of many nondescript motels the last of the hired killers is holed up in. It doesn't occur to him that the room keys will be in the pockets of the two he has just killed or in their car, which he has stolen and is now riding in.

      The surviving killer has a hostage who needs to be rescued. Reacher has intuited the motel, but which is the room? Child doesn't explain why the register is unhelpful here. The units of the motel are built around a central courtyard, unit facing unit, window facing window. Fortunately for Reacher, the highly disciplined professional killer who is holding an unhappy abductee at gunpoint hasn't bothered to pull the drapes. The Hollywood Superman thing happens, the bad guy is knocked out, and the hostage saved unharmed. The state police arrive to haul the bad guy away, at which point they disappear completely --- no witness statements, no evidence team. Reacher continues to use the killers' rented car, which by now is material evidence in five murders, two attempted murders, and two abductions. It's that kind of book.

      There are lots of good whodunits and crime thrillers out there. Echo Burning isn't one of them.
    • 3/5
      Not Child's best, not his worst. Like many of his novels, I feel like some trimming would have made this a much tighter, fast-paced story.Here, Reacher is back on the move, this time in Texas. Within moments of hitchhiking, he is picked up by a beautiful woman, Carmen, with a worrisome story. Her abusive husband, Sloop, will be getting out of jail soon and she's looking for a big strong man to kill him. Reacher says he won't do that, but is willing to be hired on as a farmhand to make sure the beatings don't happen again.But is Carmen telling the truth?"Echo Burning" has lots of twists and turns, with several characters who aren't what they seem. But again, the book tends to drag a bit here and there as we wait for the action to commence. At times, I felt like the book should be titled "Echo Slowly Burning."
    • 5/5
      BRILLIANT, AGAIN!.. WONDER, HOW - CHILD - DOES, THIS?! AWESOME!.. STRAIGHT, ONTO PART VI?!.. IMMENSE!.. GRIPPING.. FABULOUS!..
    • 4/5
      My favorite part of the book came at the end when Jack slips away to thumb his way to yet another unknown destination... reminded me of the old Incredible Hulk tv show where Bruce has to keep moving on! But really, the author keeps the reader guessing - throwing out red herrings and suggesting unreliable narrators. It is fitting that Jack solves the day by listening to his intuition and picking up the subtle clues.
    • 5/5
      Fully evolving mystery thriller keeps you completely engaged
    • 5/5
      One of the better Reacher books. Less obvious plot than others, I enjoyed it.
    • 5/5
      Good plot and entertaining keeps you interested and I am a fan of the narrator
    • 3/5
      For as thin as the plot was, it took way too long to set up. I still liked the book, because of the character, but it's my least favorite so far.
    • 5/5
      One of Lee Child's best, so far. Loved Dick Hills narration as well.
    • 4/5
      Echo Burning really did not happen until the end of the book but it took a long time to get there. Jack Reacher, our hero, wound up in a situation that needed superpowers of the brain. He had to guess the location of a kidnapped child, and survive several attempts at his life. Echo Burning is a good book. It received four stars in this review.
    • 3/5
      Pretty quiet book for the first half; then it took off. The summary took two hours of the 13 total. Some of that could have been toned down with some details that could be skipped--excruciating details of roads travelled and banal descriptions of beds and sleeping quarters, e.g. Reacher's deductive power evident. Fun read overall.
    • 5/5
      It's so hard for me to believe Lee Child is British. His novels are so American. His character, Jack Reacher, is a raw American free soul who has no home and travels with a toothbrush, the clothes on his back and $1,000 cash. No id, no nothing. In Echo Burning, he's hitchhiking and picked up by a woman who's on a hunt to find someone to kill her husband. It's a great story just like his others.
    • 4/5
      Vague memory of it being a good enough story.
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher always seems to end up on the wrong side of the law. It's almost as if he thrives on being framed. Damned if he does...damned if he doesn't. This time, on the run for beating up a cop, Reacher finds himself involved with helping a battered Mexican woman escape her racist white husband. Even when all signs point to Carmen being a liar Reacher stays. Even when he has the means to walk away from this prejudice drama Reacher stays. He stays because he believes Carmen and her small daughter really are in grave danger. [My comment here is for all Reacher's insistence to avoid real world attachments, for he has no clothes, no house, no bank accounts, no car, no family or friends...he certainly gets entrapped by attachments of the heart often enough. He can't say no to a lady in need. But, this is the first time in the series Reacher doesn't get sexually involved. Carmen certainly tries to seduce him in order to guarantee his help getting away from her husband; and the woman Reacher is attracted to turns out to be a lesbian. But, back to the plot. This is Texas where the heat is oppressive and ranch families are even more so. Reacher's damsel in distress finally takes matters into her own hands. Again, Reacher could walk away. Case closed. But. He can't.
    • 4/5
      Echo Burning is the 5th Jack Reacher novel by publishing order, or 8th by chronology; thankfully it continues on from the trend set down in Running Blind by continuing to step away from the formulaic writing used prior novels.Whilst he's now shed the house and car picked up earlier in the series and is once again a wanderer, he still appears to be a magnet for women in trouble, at least now however he manages not to sleep with either of the two female leads. This installment is a bit lighter on the action and a bit heavier on the investigative mystery I still found it to be quite enjoyable and liked the way the narrative had you wondering about which characters were showing their true colours and which were being nefarious and deceiving Reacher and/or those looking in from the outside. Overall, another good installment of the series well worth the read.
    • 2/5
      Too much political bias. Lower quality than other Reacher books.
    • 5/5
      Really tight narrative. Very descriptive of way south Texas people live and work in the stark desert environment
    • 2/5
      Slow and jack reacher is made to look stupid
    • 4/5
      Just how did Jack Reacher escape my notice until now? This is my first encounter with Child and I'm hooked. His characters are well drawn, the plot filled with suspense. American authors who write mysteries set in England often do not get it quite right, so I was interested in this English author setting his mystery in the U.S. In my opinion he hit the spot and produced a page-turner that kept me up most of the night. Great stuff!
    • 4/5
      Delighted to find a couple of Child books I had not read. Another Reacher adventure that takes place in sun-parched Texas. Not one of his best, but still an enjoyable read. This plot was a bit over complicated and over thought for my tastes. Reacher may be a super hero, but he's no magician as this tale made him out to be with his analytical powers.
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher always comes up with a good read and plenty of entertainment. Well done, once again, Lee Child.
    • 4/5
      Love Jack Reacher.Another tense thriller, this time deep in the heart of Texas, where it was hot, hot, hot and Reacher with the help of a gay lawyer does his utmost to clear an abused wife and mother of shooting her husband.
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher while hitching a ride in Texas gets picked up by a woman who begs him to kill her abusive husband who is about to be released from prison. She manages to convence him on how horrible her life is as a hispanic woman living in a very begotted town and especially living with her husband's family. Lots of plot twists as Jack investigates and sifts through the lies and evidence to get to the truth.
    • 3/5
      I love Jack Reacher stories but this one dragged a bit for me. It takes place in the no man's land of West Texas when a hitchhiking Reacher is picked up by a desperate woman with a strange request. From there Jack has to sort through myriad lies & find the truth.
    • 4/5
      Another solid Jack Reacher yarn. Set in Texas and layered in racism and good old boy politics, this story stands out from other Reacher novels because for once, Reacher does NOT get the girl. Enjoyable storytelling and at times hard to put down.