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Echo Burning

Author: Lee Child
Creators: Kerry Shale, Kerry Shales
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

26 reviews
Sales Rank: 637405

Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged Ed
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 4.2 x 0.7

ISBN: 0007113552
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007113552
ASIN: 0007113552

Publication Date: April 17, 2001
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.co.uk Review
There was a time when a US-set crime novel by a British writer (such as James Hadley Chase's No Orchids For Miss Blandish) could get away with a certain carelessness in local detail. Not any more. Since the Englishman Lee Child began writing his superbly authentic novels, few readers on either side of the Atlantic would accept anything other than the gritty authenticity of books such as Child's latest, Echo Burning. He prides himself on the plausibility of his settings and characters, and actually has a more striking sense of the American landscape that many native writers. He never allows the reader to forget just where his hero Jack Reacher is, what he's feeling, smelling, seeing. And Reacher has slowly but surely become one of the most fully rounded protagonists in thriller fiction. It's hardly surprising that the novels have been optioned for filming; what is surprising is the fact that it hasn't happened before.

Jack finds himself suffering the intense heat of a Texas summer, and (leaving behind a messy situation) hardly worries about the dangers of who will pick him up when he hitches a ride. But it's a beautiful young rich girl driving a Cadillac who gives Jack a lift. Carmen tells him she has a little girl who is being observed by unseen and sinister forces. And her brutal, abusive jailed husband is more than likely to kill her when he gets out. It's obviously highly inadvisable for Jack to travel to Carmen's remote ranch in Echo County and become involved in her problems, but (needless to say) he does just that. And he's soon encountering lies, lust and prejudice, with untrustworthy cops and lawyers absolutely no help. Jack finally realises that there is only one way to resolve this lethal situation.

As always with Child, the narrative rattles along with real elan, and the sultry characterisation keeps everything ruthlessly on track. --Barry Forshaw

Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Great thriller June 3, 2008
Jack Reacher is my absolute hero,and the author never lets me down.A different twist-less blood than some of his tales but he kept me guessing to the end. Clever! It has more of a detective story to it- who is lying? -who is behind the kidnap plan? and I really was gripped. He is un-putdownable.

3 out of 5 stars

Total Trash - but still, quite fun August 27, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I feel vaguely ashamed of myself for reading and enjoying this one. The plot was complete codswallop - I didn't believe a word of it - but somehow I kept turning the pages! This is the first Jack Reacher book I have read, and I found him an irritating sort of hero. It was soon apparent that the guy is completely invincible, which rather takes the edge of any sticky situations he gets into - you know he will overcome, so where's the tension? The way he keeps philosophising when he wants to make a point, made me want to smack his face and say, look, I understand what you're saying - no need to bang on and on about Copernicus or whatever. I don't know how Alice put up with him, meekly doing everything he ordered her to.
The writing style was atrocious - repetitive and packed full of cliches. What seriously got on my nerves (as well as all the 'he said nothing's that someone else has commented on - was the constant references to the air conditioning! I know it's Texas. I know it's hot. I know these machines make a lot of noise. But why, whenever Reacher enters a room, does there have to be a description of the sound of the A/C? Presumably a complete lack of imagination on Lee Child's part, and sloppy editing - surely a decent editor would have tactfully suggested that there might be some alternative ways of summing up the atmosphere of a place?
Yes, utter rubbish - but it kept me going all the way to the end, so there must have been something good about it!!

3 out of 5 stars

Not as good as other in the series... April 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I've read all the Reacher series of books with the exception of Bad Luck and Trouble and i have to say the Echo Burning was my least favourite. I just couldn't warm to the characters and the story failed to grab my attention the way the others in the series did. That said its not a bad read and if you've read the other books in the series you will probably enjoy this one too.

If you've not read any of the Reacher series don't start with this book, try the 1st in the series or One Shot - which is my fav :)

3 out of 5 stars

He said nothing - again and again and again March 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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I've enjoyed other Reacher novels, but they generally have to be taken with a large pinch of salt. What really irritates me though is the number of times Jack Reacher (and other characters) 'say nothing.' Time and time again ad nauseam the reader gets 'He said nothing.' 'Reacher said nothing.' No reply.'
Please, it's hackneyed and so overused that it trips up the flow of the writing. I get that Reacher is the strong silent type. I don't need it hammering home with the unsubtlety of a sledgehammer.
Not one of his best.

1 out of 5 stars

I don't get the hype October 24, 2006
1 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is the first Lee Child book that I've read and I wasn't too impressed. Although this is a work of fiction, it still requires some realism, and in this book you might find at times, that it is like reading a Bollywood movie script. In the books' particualry ropey moments I could be heard saying "yea right" out loud.
"Echo Burning" follows the story of reluctant hero Jack Reacher helping a Damsel in distress called Carmen, and that is about it. The character of "Jack Reacher" has been done before, and done much better by other authors. I didnt like him, to me he was like a CIA wannabe extra from "Clear and Present Danger". It was predicable and unoriginal, however Child's skill with pace did make it mildly entertaining, If I had heeded my original foreboding when I first picked up the book, I would not have read it, but I wished to give the author a try. This original reluctance resulted from the last line of prose at the back of the novel, "The cops cant be trusted. The lawyers won't help. If Jack Reacher can't set things straight who can?" Oh dear.... I think that says it all. I will give lee Child another try, as so many reviewers can't be wrong, but I think I will steer clear of the Jack Reacher Novels.