| 61 Hours (Jack Reacher 14) |  | Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 4,203
Media: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Pages: 448
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0593057066
EAN: 9780593057063
ASIN: 0593057066
Publication Date: March 18, 2010
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It's winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm. Jack hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat. But he's equipped for the rest of his task.
Amazon.co.uk Review
There was some excitement recently at the offices of Transworld, publisher of the British thriller writer Lee Child, who has so successful conquered America with his Jack Reacher adventures. Child usually produces only one novel featuring his tough ex-army action hero each year, but the latest book, 61 Hours, will be followed up with a speedily issued second new Reacher-related novel this autumn. 61 Hours -- admirers will, of course, have to have both. Sales of such Child novels as Gone Tomorrow have exceed 74,000 copies – and he continues his upwards ascent, singularly unimpeded. But the new book has Jack Reacher in the most extreme danger of his career.South Dakota is shivering under an icy winter, and the roads are particularly treacherous. As a snow storm gathers force, the tyres of a bus skid and there is a crash, stranding the bus and its passengers. And if you think that this atmospheric set-up sounds like the perfect introduction to a Jack Reacher novel, how right you are: Lee Child's granite-tough hero has hitched a ride in the back of the bus, and finds himself (like the other passengers -- a particularly ill assorted group) facing the problems of surviving in sub-arctic weather. Needless to say, Jack is able to draw on more resources in such a situation than many of his fellow passengers. Some 20 miles away from the crash is a small town, where a key witness is being guarded against sinister individuals bent on murder. And another elements in this combustible mix includes an omniscient figure who is to have a crucial role in the dramatic events that follow -- even though this figure is many miles from the frigid landscape that Jack Reacher is marooned in. All of this is typically suspenseful fare (in fact, the real surprise would be if it weren’t -- Child is one of the most reliable writers on the face of the planet). And there’s an ending quite unlike any other Jack Reacher novel you have read. Lee Child aficionados need not hesitate. --Barry Forshaw
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 Disappointing, where's the violence? September 5, 2010
Eoin Melby (Ireland)
I have been a big fan of the Jack Reacher series, and with the exception of Echo Burning, Die Trying and 61 Hours, deserves to be called one of the greatest book series. Lee Child is a fantastic author, however I think he has bowed under pressure about Jack Reacher's inhumane skills. I don't know about the rest of the readers but it was Jack Reacher's insane strength, incredible deduction abilities and yes, his popularity with the ladies that attracted me towards his books. It was the perfect mix of Sherlock Holmes, Arnold Schwarzenegger (minus the weapons) and James Bond. Reacher's ability to kill people with a single punch (The Visitor) and make unbelievable calls (Tripwire) were what made him so unique. Reacher in this was constrained, minimal violence, no female contact and his deductions were so simple I was able to call it about 60 pages before he did. This was a massive letdown after Gone Tomorrow (which was exceptional) and hopefully it'll pick up again for Worth Dying For.
 Another excellent Jack Reacher book September 3, 2010
L. White
Very good, although be warned it is to be continued, so you dont get a clean finish at the end!
61 Hours and "Jack Reacher" Thrillers September 2, 2010
Dogbite
"Jack Reacher" 61 Hours, possibly the best so far, I have read them all, but then again every "Jack Reacher" adventure has that magic
ingedient where the pulse of the reader is in sync with the character of "Jack Reacher"
Lee Childs has created a character for the "thinking" thriller reader, a formula with enough identity to excite
the readers inner nemesis for retributive justice.
Like many people I started reading "Lee Childs" because the "dust cover" looked interesting, "take it on holiday".
That was "Nothing to Lose", very soon I was hooked and needed more, so I started at the beginning "The Killing Floor" now I have read all 14 with number 15 on order.
As each book reachers the final chapters, the reader is consciously willing "Lee Childs" to have the next installment ready as a personal favour,
"Jack Reacher" is as addictive as nicotine.
My order is already placed for 30th September release of "Worth Dying For" this is the follow on
from "61 Hours"
Always a great read, hooks the reader in, great detail and location, builds your involvment, to a point where the reader is looking over their own shoulder to warn "Jack" of inpending trouble.
When you read these you are there and concerned you are the "Thinking Reader"
If you like "61 Hours" you will read them all.
Films, would be great, but they must follow the author, and not ruin "Jack Reacher" he is human enough and requires no embellishment no high tech gadgets, just as he is written.
Ice-Cold in Dakota: Jack Reacher Helps the Police August 31, 2010
JudithAnn (Houten, Netherlands)
I don't read many thrillers but I do like them every now and then. I enjoyed reading this one. I wasn't at the edge of my seat but I was worrying that things might go wrong.
There were two mixed story lines: one was Jack Reacher's story of arriving in a South-Dakotan town and getting involved with a police investigation. The other was of an unnamed criminal who was making plans of some kind. This second story was much too vague for me (this was done on purpose to make it interesting, but that didn't work for me). The Reacher story line was interesting enough to keep me reading, though.
I loved the cleverness of Reacher. He could analyse a situation a lot better than the police officers and he could predict events before they happened. All very clever stuff.
What I also liked a lot was the feeling of cold the book very aptly described. It was very, very cold in South Dakota and this was very obvious from the story. The cold and the snow was actually used in different places in the story, such as the reason Jack was stranded, the cold and snow limited the number of ways a killer could get to Mrs. Salter (a witness that needed protection), a stretch of road that was cleaned of snow was a clue to what was going to happen.
A nice thriller!
Lee Child August 20, 2010
Paul N. Stenton
yet another good book in the series
well worth ordering if you follow him
delivery and packaging first class as usual
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