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Echo Burning

Jack Reacher 5

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Echo Burning

By: Lee Child
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**

Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer.

Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful.

But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her.

Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.

Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series.


"Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good." (Daily Mail)

‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times

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In the space of less than five years, Child has established himself as one of Britain's most successful commercial novelists...Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good
Reacher is a hero in the old Wild West stle: a fearless and capable loner, who lives by his own set of morals and is proud never to have killed a man who didn't deserve it...The author is in complete control of his complicated plot and has produced another real pageturner
The British émigré Lee Child has become more American than the natives...A well-woven tale of dirt and duplicity with engaging characters...Child's character is a classic hero
If you like thrillers of the bang-wallop variety, with a nice bit of plotting thrown in, this is the one for you
Big, bruising actioner...Child's great strength lies in spelling out exactly how explosive things are made to happen...Cathartic stuff, expertly delivered
Gritty stuff with a high body count and intricate plotting that keeps the pages turning
A taut thriller by a British writer who handles the American suspense novel well'
Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real page-turner

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What did you love best about Echo Burning?

The story was complex - you were never sure whether Jack Reacher had been conned. I also love listening to Jeff Harding.

What other book might you compare Echo Burning to and why?

I wouldn't compare it to other Lee Child books, but I am a big fan. Every couple of years I listen to them all again.

What about Jeff Harding’s performance did you like?

His style is perfect for thrillers.

Lee Child never disappoints

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Jack Reacher stories are amphetamine in writing. A friend 'pushed' me into them last Christmas - the first 2 consumed every spare moment from my week's holiday, and a good many more moments than they should have. At the time I thought luckily there were no Audible versions.

Now there are! Initially I didn't like listening to this first one I experienced. Jeff Harding has the right voice for the genre, but his women's voices sound like little girls. It took me a long time to latch into the story.

However eventually I did, and I enjoyed it. Jack Reacher is the 21st-century Odysseus, and like all good myths, this one resonates on multiple levels. In addition 'Echo Burning' builds the tension slowly, and eventually it hits a point of pushing more adrenaline than ice climbing. It kept me coming back for more. I suspect that it will for all who like reading of an interesting hero sorting through interesting problems.

Excitement builds

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Bit more of a twist than usual. Worth a listen if you enjoy Reacher. Easy listening for a flight or lazy afternoon.

Great as always

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great application, have been using it for a few days and smooth delivery and no crashes ...... I'm sure there will be updates and there will be changes........ simple works.

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In this novel, Lee Child comes up with a clever story with some great twists and turns to accompany his high intensity action sequences and granular writing style.

All the fun of Jack Reacher in a real story.

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