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    Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Never go back-but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. . . . Never Go Back is a novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek).

    Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.

    Reacher is there to meet-in person-the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone.

    But it isn't Turner behind the CO's desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.

    When threatened, you can run or fight.

    Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs.

    Combining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces-and makes him question who he is, what he's done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 3, 2013
    ISBN9780307749659
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    Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      Entertaining!! Love Jack Reacher, who has become a meme of himself by this point.
    • 3/5
      I've liked all the Jack Reacher novels I've read. Some, more than others. "Never Go Back" is one of the others. Most Reacher novels could use a considerable amount of trimming to make the story tighter and this one is no different. As usual, I like how Lee Child makes Reacher intuitive in his deductions (rather than relying on technology all the time), but sometimes he's TOO intuitive. Reacher needs to make mistakes sometimes and those mistakes need to be punitive.There were a lot of red herrings in this one and quite a few coincidences to make it wholly plausible. The novel is about as average as one can get.
    • 5/5
      This was my first 'Jack Reacher' read and it was a great romp! The character Child creates is quirky, and a bit strange, but he is almost always right in his assessments of people, motives, actions, results, timing, and conclusions. He sees what others fail to notice and he makes decisions based on a deep and wide knowledge and experience of just about everything. Reacher is a well-attuned student of human nature. Also, he is prepared for anything that comes his way and is ruthless in ensuring he neutralizes whatever bad-ass crosses his path, a real mensch. Child draws a very original and intriguing character who pulls you into his world and who causes you to pay attention, because the roller coaster ride is guaranteed to be fun! The dialogue is great throughout and the action is fast and relentless with the reader looking forward to the next brilliant solution for the next confrontation. My first stop is the local bookstore to stock up on the previous adventures I have missed!
    • 3/5
      This was my first Jack Reacher book. It was an okay read. If I read another one, I will start with the first book to see how good it use to be. I love a book that keeps you guessing the "whys and hows" until the end, but figured this one half way through.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the book, even though it is like all the other books. Sometimes his lengthy descriptions are boring.
    • 3/5
      Another Jack Reacher novel that has a corrupt military system as the baddie.
    • 4/5
      My second "Reacher" book. While I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one, it was still a great read. A little bit longer than I usually like (400 pages), but there wasn't in "filler" in the book. The part of the plot about what the bad guys were up to got a little confusing, but that may just me on me.
    • 5/5
      Lee's writing continues to set the standard for crime-thrillers. He has also started to include more humour in his writing, something I really enjoy.
    • 3/5
      Although I've really enjoyed Jack Reacher novels in the past, this one didn't stand up to the precedent set by those past reads. Besides having a really slow and repetitive start, the book just seemed... well, easy. Everything just fell together easily and perfectly, almost as if Reacher was just standing by and watching things unfold, and responding to a few fights when they found him. It was just... sort of easy--more intrigue than plot, in a way. On top of this, the dialogue was really hard to read. I don't know when I've read such fragmented and awkward dialogue that just didn't ring true, and the effect got worse as the book went forward. Based off of this, I wouldn't read more Jack Reacher novels; as is, since I've enjoyed earlier ones, I don't know if I'll pick up another one or not, but this certainly isn't one I'd recommend.
    • 2/5
      This is the first Jack Reacher series book I've started to read. I'm at Chapter 6 and enjoying it so far. My interest is from the two movies.
    • 3/5
      Another Jack Reacher novel that has a corrupt military system as the baddie.
    • 5/5
      Great writer makes great stories! More intrigue and smarts to learn!
    • 3/5
      Reading a Lee Child book is like eating potato chips. You can't eat just one and you can't help but keep eating...er reading. This one was a bit stretched in the plot department (regarding the bad guys), but what the heck.
    • 5/5
      Good story, one of the more fulfilling ones. Jack gets to meet Susan Turner. Apparently mentioned in #14 - 61 Hours - but as I just read them as I find them at the library, I had no clue or care.
    • 5/5
      I have read every single one of this series so far and so am fairly vested in Jack Reacher :)... Without revealing any spoilers, I spent a good bit of this story worried sick that Lee Child had found a new (and definitely NOT to my liking) raison d'etre for Reacher. So that was a bit distracting but otherwise, I enjoyed this story enormously. I do hope there are may more Reacher tales to come.
    • 3/5
      After reading and enjoying Killing Floor, I decided to skip ahead in the series and read Never Go Back, which is the basis for the upcoming Jack Reacher movie. I had to suspend my disbelief constantly in this book. I can't even blame Mr. Child - after 17 books, he must be running short on believable scenarios! Reacher is still the stoic, badass lone wolf I got to know in Killing Floor, but now it's like he's become an exaggerated version of himself, almost a caricature. Despite the many eye-roll inducing scenes, this story is still pretty entertaining in a train wrecky kind of way. In short, don't expect it to be as good as Killing Floor, but it's still a fun read if you need a Reacher fix and don’t really care if the plot makes any sense. I honestly can’t wait to see how they adapt this book to the big screen.
    • 4/5
      I’m writing this review on the assumption that the reader is already familiar with Lee Child’s Jack Reacher books and knows basically what to expect. If I’m mistaken and you don’t know what kind of book this is then I have one word for you: testosterone.For those of you who are familiar with Jack Reacher, Never Go Back holds few surprises. The story opens with Reacher traveling across the country to invite the commanding officer of his old MP unit to dinner to discover that she has been arrested on trumped up charges. Her replacement then informs Reacher that the Army has been looking for him in relations to and outstanding assault charge and a paternity suit. He is then recalled to service pending trial. Shortly afterward, he is accosted by a pair of military goons who try rather forcefully to convince Reacher to head for the hills. From there the story takes off in the usual lee Child fashion with Reacher travelling all about the country trying to discover who is trying to set them up and why. The actions scenes are as entertaining as ever but the main plot is pretty weak with the most compelling mystery being whether or not Reacher is a father and how he will handle it if he is. The weakest part of the story is that Reacher, who has a reputation for being cannier than most people, makes several rather dumb mistakes. Not once, but twice, when given a choice of vehicles he chooses the car that people will notice and remember. When you are on the run, being noticed is not a good thing, something canny Reacher should know. Another time, a hotel employee knocks on their door for a patently bogus reason yet it never occurs to canny Reacher to be concerned. I understand that the author needs to keep up the tension but he can’t do it by having his protagonist make dumb mistakes that he has spent 18 books convincing us he is too smart to make.The bottom line is that I picked up this book knowing what to expect and I wasn’t disappointed. It was an entertaining escape into the world of grit-lit. It was far from my favorite Reacher book but it was still entertainment.*Quotations are cited from an advanced reading copy and may not be the same as appears in the final published edition. The review copy of this book was obtained from the publisher via the LibraryThing Early Reader Program.
    • 3/5
      This was an okay story. What bothered me most was Reacher seemed to be involved in gratuitous unprovoked violence. The ending was a letdown with the unexpected and unbelievable reasoning behind the plot.
    • 3/5
      Read because this was the fifth most issued book from Tauranga City Library for 2015. Have read one Jack Reacher before so knew what to expect. An okay read.
    • 4/5
      The usual fast-paced, full throttle story you expect for Jack Reacher.
      Reacher goes to Washington to meet someone he's spoken to a few times over the phone--he likes her voice.
      On his arrival, he finds himself drafted back into the army and charged with two offences--all of which should have made him head for the hills once he'd been given the proper incentive.
      As always, they badly underestimate Reacher and he heads straight into battle to find out who is messing with him and why.
      Enjoyed it very much, except perhaps the ending, which wasn't how the usual Reacher novel finishes. Otherwise, this was an edge of seat read.
    • 3/5
      Never sure how to review these types of books. Was I entertained? Sure. Do I feel better about myself for reading it? Not really. Will I read another Reacher book? Probably, but I won't either savor it or regret it.
    • 4/5
      A much better read than the last one or two books. The story was easier to follow along, and the ending was not as confusing as the last book. Very much an enjoyable read, as expected. This one would make a good movie plot, without having to remove or change a lot of material.
    • 3/5
      Meh, Average Jack Reacher, lacking in passion or really much in the way of plot, it seems very contrived an hung on unlikely coincidences, with gratuitous detailed violence thrown in for good measure, but doesn't re-create the atmosphere of the early ones.Jack has finally made it DC to visit the 'voice on the phone' that he'd liked whenever it was that he'd had to phone his old base. However when he arrives there he discovers that she's just been arrested on a bribery charge, and even worse there are two old cases outstanding against him - a violence charge and a paternity suit. The army apparent;y doesn't employ skip tracers so they'd just been sitting in the files, but now that he's here he has to answer them (or flee a concept that never occurs to him). For no apparent reason he's also re-enlisted,and re-instated to his former rank. Jack meets some unhelpful army lawyers and contrives a plan to bust the CO out of prison so that together they can investigate the three cases against them. Meanwhile someone's hired some heavies to keep Jack in line. Allowing the gratuitously detailed violence an outlet here and there. Lee Child would have you believe that on a commercial aeroplane nobody would notice the violence or speak up. There's also a massive plothole where Jack and Susan had been shuffling around in laceless boots, but then manage to run away, before stopping to buy some laces much later. This is average and far form the best of the Reacher stories, but still a time passing read. Just don't think too hard.
    • 5/5
      Reacher’s at it again; out to save whatever soul falls across his path, only this time he is drawn in to his old Battalion command, the 110th through the voice of a woman; a woman who is in his former position, commander of the unit, Major Susan Turner.
      Seems Reacher has finally been turned by female wiles. He thought her voice sounded nice and he wanted to take her to dinner. Instead he gets taken. It appears he killed a man in a fight years ago and the army has finally charged him now he is back on their territory. Also he is wanted by a former girlfriend who wants child support. Could this be the end of the Reacher episodes after eighteen books? He is back in the army, charged under military court martial, and has a child to support with apparently a new girlfriend, who by the way has been removed from her post for taking a bribe.
      Reacher was never one to sit and languish in a cell. And anyway he smells a rat. Someone with a voice as sweet as Susan Turner could never have taken a bribe, he’s sure of that. He breaks them out of jail and they begin a cross country chase to discover the truth on all the above allegations. As usual nothing is what was initially conceived to be but it is the way that Reacher discovers the truth and sticks it to the man at the same time that is classic Lee Child at his best.
      Without giving the plot away let it suffice to say that Reacher lives to wander on in his normal post-conquest way and Child will be bringing him back to you as soon as the nineteenth volume is hot off the presses.
    • 3/5
      Over the course of seventeen books, Jack Reacher has thwarted assassination attempts, tracked serial killers, and solved seemingly insoluble crimes. Never Go Back turns him into a fugitive from justice, entangled by shadowy-but-powerful enemies in the legal repercussions of long-ago events of which he has no memory. Aided by a fellow fugitive, Reacher must simultaneously evade his pursuers (legal and extra-legal), and unravel the criminal conspiracy he was framed in order to protect.The dual-stranded plot works well enough on its own terms, but it does not serve Reacher, as a character, especially well. There is little opportunity for his investigative skills to come into play, and much of the plot is resolved by good (sometimes improbably good) luck or the actions of others. His talent for violence is also underused, since his near-effortless defeat of two goons in an early scene diminishes the threat they subsequently pose. When the climax of the story arrives, Reacher is more an observer than a participant. It makes sense in context, which a different ending with a more activist role for Reacher would not have, but it fails to satisfy.All that said, the book has numerous pleasures to offer longtime fans of Child, Reacher, and the series: a tautly written escape scene, nifty descriptions of man-on-the-run tradecraft, and a scene in an LA diner that resolves a key plot thread in a refreshingly un-cliched way. The inevitable coda, in which Reacher parts ways with his latest lover, has a poignant quality that (for such an unemotional character) is unexpectedly moving. Together these scenes make the Never Go Back worthwhile, and reassure readers that, eighteen books in, Lee Child has yet to sink into the comfortable embrace of formula.
    • 4/5
      This novel has zip and all of the pleasures that have made the Jack Reacher series so enduringly successful. However, given the complexity of the plot--and the force of the narrative as Reacher solves the mystery, this may be one of the better one in the series. That's a pleasure to say, because other recent iterations have seemed pro forma, and Never Go Back has all the qualities that originally attracted so many readers. Reacher again is indestrucible, both gallant and sadistic, child-friendly and chillingly violent. People think they can master this force of nature, but what inevitably happens is that he out thinks and out strategizes the villains and then with righteous pleasure does grievous damage to their bodies and souls. The fact that he is saving a damsel in distress in this tale just adds to the pleasure. She is totally sympatico with Reacher and in another series readers might expect to see her again. But since he blows with the wind following each adventure, my feeling is that it will be some new wrong to be righted and some new victim of evil Reacher will save in some new location. Fun, fun, fun.
    • 3/5
      Reacher is back! In the last installment, Reacher was replaced with a chatty, judgmental jerk, but in Never Go Back Lee Child returns to the taciturn and pedantic character we all love. In this installment, Reacher goes back to his old unit to meet the commanding officer he has only spoken to on the phone only to find that she has been arrested for taking a bribe. What's more, he is also being prosecuted for killing a guy sixteen years ago and is told to run away or else. If you've ever read a book about Jack Reacher, you can probably guess how he reacted. What follows is the usual fun romp in which Reacher is always a half step ahead of the bad guys. Really, the series is fantastic, especially when you want something purely escapist to take your mind off of things. They do follow a formula, but it's a fun one. This time it has Reacher endlessly calculating his odds of success and, in a fun twist, encountering a teenage girl who is eerily similar to himself. Thank you, Mr Child, for getting rid of that cranky, pontificating clone and returning the real deal to the series.
    • 5/5
      It feels like I have waited a long time to read this book, but it was worth the wait - Reacher at his best! Within a couple of pages, he is back in the Army - that was a shock. Shortly afterwards Major Reacher and Major Turner are on the run, across the states - coast to coast in fact! There are the usual bouts of physical violence that you expect in a Reacher novel but the storyline is really unique. I loved this book. Reacher is back out of the Army again now, back on the streets and I am looking forward to the next episode!
    • 3/5
      I got this book through the Early Reviewers program. Was super excited. Received it and inhaled it before it even was published. Then I got sick and never got this reviewed-ugh! So here I am months later trying to remember exact details. I remember loving this book-the several book arc of heading east and finding Susan Turner. Which I was like-about time, Reacher! Reacher is the best kind of cliched-there's always fistfight, escapes, pretty girls, and good vs. evil. Love Reacher, love the series-when's the next one coming out?
    • 5/5
      Another absolutely compelling Jack Reacher novel, but with some intriguing twists including meeting a teen aged girl reputed to be his daughter.