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Killing Floor (Wheeler Softcover)

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

55 reviews

Format: Large Print
Media: Paperback
Edition: Lrg
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 553
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1

ISBN: 1568956908
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781568956909
ASIN: 1568956908

Publication Date: December 1998
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4 out of 5 stars

A good no-brainer read July 21, 2008
Just finished this on holiday - have never read any Lee Child before so decided to start at the beginning of the Jack Reacher story. I'm more of a fan of the style where you can work out what is happening so was slightly disappointed that you had to be fed some of the knowledge and couldn't have worked it out on your own. Plus there were some big leaps that you had to make (won't spoil it for those who haven't read but there is the 'coincidence in being in Margrave' and the 10th man leap which I still can't work out!).
Having said that, it is a real page-turner and all characters are very engaging. While it is the Jack Reacher series, I do hope we see some of the others back in other books in the series. I guess I'll have to read them to find out.

5 out of 5 stars

Don't let the military aspect put you off a fabulous book June 21, 2008
I picked this book up in the airport to read on holiday not expecting anything but an average but good holiday read. I couldn't put it down. It completely surprised me. By the end of the first chapter I was so bumused and enagaged by the plot and the main character that I was engrossed for the next two days.

Although Jack Reacher is a gruff, predatory loner, something about him makes you want to learn more and more about how he has come to be at the point in his life where this novel starts. It was full of action, full of twists and turns and I found it refreshingly orginal in the over saturated thriller/crime genre.

I have since gone on to read most of the other books by Lee Child and while they may never again have the same impact is this introduction to Jack Reacher, they are still my holiday novel of choice 7 years on.

1 out of 5 stars

God Awful March 30, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

This book receives good reviews, dont be fooled. This book is rubbish! from start to finish. The story has a flimsy plot. The characters are shallow. The book lacks any originality, and the main character is just a combination of every other invincible contrived "anti hero". Honestly, this book is absolute garbage.

5 out of 5 stars

Child's 1st Reacher outing March 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

What can I say about Lee Child? I love the mans work, i'm not reading the novels in order as first I read was One Shot which I thought was storming and could not put it down. I own paperbacks killing floor to The hard way and have read One shot, tripwire, persuader & most recently killing floor when I was traveling to Central America last year which funnily enough took me through a stop over in Atlanta so on flight home I could very easily relate and picture the hotel area, the closenest of the climate in the region and more so passing through the airport. All said I've enjoyed this book and all the others as i guess, every guy wants to be a Reacher, I know I would :) He gets the girl, in situations where normal bloke would brick it, Reacher just goes to it, if someone has to be sorted out, or gets in his way, he takes them out... Almost an old western Clint Eastwood style. i hope someday somebody says "Hey, lets make one of these Child novels into a film" I'd go watch it.

3 out of 5 stars

cheese January 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

I have to admit I only got half way through this book so my review is not of the book as a whole. Unfortunately, I could not force myself to read on further. I am afraid the writing is juvenile: steel, blue eyed hero mashing baddies. Nothing wrong with this I guess but the likes of Stephen Hunter do it far better, read Pale Horse Coming for example.