An O.K. novel, it is a bit slow paced. There are certain elements of this novel that are a little to far fetched, but it is still an entertaining read. given its relaxed pace, it would make a good book to take on vacation. Overall it is a readable book even for its faults.

Product Description
Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It’s not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead.

It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return.

Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand.

Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.

About the Author
Lee Child is the author of twelve Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, and Bad Luck and Trouble. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero Awards for Best Novel. Foreign rights in the Jack Reacher series have sold in forty territories. All titles have been optioned for major motion pictures. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his thirteenth Jack Reacher thriller.

Lee Child introduces Jack Reacher in Nothing to Lose

Lee Child around the Web:

• http://www.leechild.com/
• http://www.plcmc.org
• http://thefullreview.com
• http://jerrythegeek.blogspot.com
• http://wonderingkiwi.wordpress.com
• http://emmettdoggies.blogspot.com
• http://tinycatwarriors.typepad.com
• http://grayza.wordpress.com
• http://www.januarymagazine.com
• http://bookalytics.com

This book is by far the worst novel I have read in years. It is so bad, I felt I had to read it to the end, just in case it improved. The sad fact is it just got worse and worse with every page. I read the so called adult version, so can only imagine how dire the children’s version is. In a nut shell this book is an eco rant of the worst kind. There is no science in it, but lots of science fiction. If James Patterson wants to save the planet, he could have helped by not churning out this rubbish and hence saving the need to cut done trees to make the paper for the swill. In point of fact, I would say James Patterson’s done a massive disservice to the environmental lobby, with this novel.

Synopsis
Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge and Angel are six extraordinary avian hybrids. The result of a cruel Biotech experiment which manipulated their DNA and turned them into recombinant life forms with wings. This flock has endured a turbulent upbringing and they have been continually faced with evil. Evading capture on a daily basis, they have endured torture and been pushed to the very brink of sanity. Hunted all their lives, they’ve had to fight life-threatening and belief-defying battles pitting their strength against the fearsome force of their shadowy enemies. But as their predators evolved, their unique ability to fly is no longer enough to save them.With their genes mutating to astonishing affect, the flock establishes a new set of skills to unleash as they strive for survival. But just as they struggle to get to grips with these physical changes, emotionally they face new challenges too: life on the fringe of society can be a lonely existence. Driven to the wastelands of Antartica, each day brings a new threat for the flock. Danger is never far away and while fighting to save their own skin, they have a new mission to undertake - one with devastating global consequences…

James Patterson on the Web:

• http://www.jamespatterson.com
• http://thebookpedler.wordpress.com
• http://stealingthatname.blogspot.com
• http://chainletters.wordpress.com

A T.E. Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia ) based novel, get sand between your toes. I’m a sucker for the escapades of Lawrence and his dessert adventures and this book does not let me ( or anyone else) down on that count. This is an ‘Old School’ adventure novel, set in the shifting sands of the Middle East during World War 1. The writing is both fluid and entertaining, mixing fiction with known fact. All in all and good and entertaining read.

Synopsis
This isa novelabout howLawrenceof Arabia honed hisexpertise and cultural understanding to become one of the mostpivotal figures in the Arab revoltof World War One. 1915: While the war in Europe escalates, a young intelligence officer named Thomas Edward Lawrence is in Cairo, awaiting his chance for action. His superiors, however, have consigned him to the Map Room at GCHQ. But theres more to Lieutenant Lawrence than meets the eye. A man of immense energy, he runs a network of agents across the Levant. Lawrence is convinced that an Arab revolt is the only way to remove the Ottoman presence, and leave a free self-governed Arabia. Soon, alarming reports reach him of trouble in Persia, orchestrated by infamous German agent Wilhelm Wassmuss. Intent on taking down Wassmuss and, at the same time, unlocking the secret of his success, Lawrence assembles a small group and travels to Persia. Little does he know that his actions will bring about a resolution that might just save the lives of millions of men in the trenches of Europe.

A new but old Frost. If you are a fan of the T.V. then the books will knock your socks off. They are far more funny and dark. R.D. Wingfield must have writen this novel a good while ago and after his death the family decided to publish. Good old Jack Frost smokes everywhere and thats been outlawed in England for a good few years now.

Frost is pitted against Chief Inspector Skinner, who is brought in by Mullett to shove Frost out of the door and out of Mullett’s hair. Needless to say, Frost wins the day, with a number of child murders, and assorted other crimes along the way. Full of dark humour and grisly crimes. A tour de force of crime fiction.

Synopsis
The discovery of two young girls’ bodies leaves Detective Inspector Jack Frost in a race to hunt down the killer before he, or she, can strike again. At the same time he faces a crisis at Denton police station which could result in him being sacked. Jack Frost, brought to magnificent life by David Jason in the TV series, staggers from crisis to crisis, his bumbling modus operandi disguising his extraordinary powers of detection.

R.D. Wingfield around the Web:

• http://halfhead.blogspot.com
• http://www.sarahweinman.com
• http://beebarf.livejournal.com

Will Self seems to be in God mode. This is the second novel he has written, where he creates, news worlds, a new lexicon and social ills to fill the new world with. Will Self writes up a storm and brags you along in its wake. The language of this novel is both rich and complex, which makes you think about the underlining issues it raises about modern society and the direction it is taking.

For sheer inventiveness it does stand in the shade of ‘The Book of Dave’, which was far superior in every way. That is not to say the The Butt is not a good read. I can even forgive Wil Self for the rubbish,so called cultures shows he appears on,on T.V.

Will Self should spend more time knocking out books, and less time talking bollocks on T.V.

Synopsis
Tom Brodzinski is a man who takes his own good intentions for granted. But when he finally decides to give up smoking, a moment’s inattention to detail becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment he’s renting with his family, Tom is appalled when it lands on the head of one his fellow countrymen, Reggie Lincoln. The elderly Lincoln is badly burnt, and since the cigarette butt passed through public space before hitting him, the local authorities are obliged to regard Tom’s action as an assault, despite his benign intentions. Worse is to follow: Lincoln is married to a native from one of the rigorous, mystical tribes of the desert interior, and their customary law is incorporated into the civil statute.In order to make reparations to Mrs Lincoln’s people, Tom will have to leave his family behind, and carry the appropriate goods and chattels deep into the arid heart of this strange, island continent. Any of this might be bearable, were it not for Tom’s companion, forced on him by his enigmatic lawyer, the mixed-race Jethro Swai-Phillips.

Brian Prentice, like Tom, has to make reparations and although there is a taboo that prevents either man from knowing the exact detail of the other’s offence, Tom’s almost 100 per cent certain that he’s a child-abuser. As they drive into the desert and encounter a violent counter-insurgency war that Tom has allowed himself to remain in ignorance of, the relationship between the two men becomes one of complicit guilt as well as seething mistrust. Refusing facile moral certitudes, Will Self’s latest novel is set in a distorted world, in a country that is part Australia, part Iraq, part Greeneland and part the heart of a distinctively modern darkness.

Will Self around the Web:

• http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.com
• http://gardentales.wordpress.com/
• http://blog.booklistonline.com
• http://richardmadeley.blogspot.com
• http://www.neil-scott.com