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    Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Thriller

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    About this audiobook

    A decade post military, Jack Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back — no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher using a signal only the eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells him a terrifying story about the brutal death of a man they both served with.

    Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day.

    In a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

    A Random House Audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 15, 2007
    ISBN9780739340684
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    Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Thriller
    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
      Synopsis: Reacher gets a cryptic message that draws him to his old team and into the reason for the murder of four of them. The rest of the team vows vengeance.Review: Interesting story with a few twists.
    • 4/5
      Lee Child's Jack Reacher series is unique in that the main character doesn't get tiring for me. Many recurring characters lose their charm over the course of several books, but not Reacher. I think too that Child's very well developed stories go a long way in keeping the books fresh.Here, Reacher is contacted by Frances Neagle, a former MP colleague and member of their once elite group of special investigators. One of their own was thrown out of a helicopter in California and three other members aren't responding to calls or emails. Reacher and Neagle work together to figure out what's happening to the members of their old unit, all the while wondering if they're next.This is the first Reacher book I read where I didn't feel there was some fat to cut. Most of the time, I think Child's books could be improved by losing 100 or so pages, but not "Bad Luck and Trouble."
    • 3/5
      Jack at his dangerous and deadly best - he is truly a bad ass. So many try to copy the character but Child does "him" best.
    • 5/5
      Another great story! I need to finish this so I can get go to the next!
    • 3/5
      BAD LUCK & TROUBLE doesn't measure up to the other Reacher books I've read by Lee Child. Usually, Jack Reacher is a loner and does superhuman things on his own. In this book, Reacher is together with former team members who seem to slow the pace of the story. Time is spent trying to unlock passwords, interviewing, and showing less active scenes. I was also tired of reading all the references to numbers that occurred throughout the story. Fortunately, I finished the story but it's the first time ever that I've given Lee Child such a low rating. I'll continue to follow him and read his books, hoping that this is not representative of the rest of the series.
    • 1/5
      Disappointing book in this overall enjoyable series
    • 2/5
      I think I'm addicted now.
    • 4/5
      Bad Luck and Trouble: Jack Reacher, is a great story. Jack Reacher is a good character that can accomplish impossible things in horrible situations and still win who always does the right thing. The author clearly has done a lot of research and knows his way around the U.S. The book received four stars in this review and is highly recommended for a the suspense.
    • 4/5
      I'd read one Reacher book previously, but didn't like it much. This one was better. It's always nice to read a story where people are close and loyal to each other, as are Reacher and his former Army investigative team. The story was pretty good too, some real villains, a fairly original plot. I've ordered Childs' first Reacher book. I've read that the first chapter is just about super. Might pick up some tips!
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher is back and better than ever. A woman from his past reaches out. Frances Neagley was one of 8 on Reacher's special forces team in the military a decade ago. Another member has been viciously murdered in the dessert - dropped, while alive, from a helicopter. Reacher and Neagley gather the other members they can find to unravel the mystery. It's a great story with great characters and like the rest of everything he's written, Child has another must read.
    • 4/5
      Typical Reacher. Love it or leave it. They're like candy.
    • 3/5
      Ths book is the first of the Jack Reacher books I've read but that's not a problem as the story is stand alone and there is very little back story to follow. It follows our hero and his old colleagues as they investigate the death of another colleague in mysterious circumstances. Taking them from high class hotels to back street strip clubs. It isn't my favourite type of book with not much story line and fairly obvious twists but readable enough.
    • 3/5
      Not as good as some of the author's other books in the series, but not bad either. I had a lot of time to read while traveling lately, so this helped pass the time.
    • 3/5
      Jack at his dangerous and deadly best - he is truly a bad ass. So many try to copy the character but Child does "him" best.
    • 4/5
      A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the cloths on his back-no phone, no ties, and no address. But now a women from his old unit has done the impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know, a deposit of $10.30 into his ATM account"need help." She tells him a terrifying story-about the brutal death of a man they both served with, that was pushed out of a helicopter at 3,000 ft with two broken legs. Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team. Scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don't know: about two other comrades who have suddening gone missing-and the trail that leads into the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.
    • 5/5
      Another excellent book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. Reacher is called to Los Angeles by his former sergeant. One of his former investigators has been killed. They believe the whole special investigator unit in the army has been wiped out. 2 more of the investigators has showed up to find out 4 of them have been killed while investigating a company who makes a special part for the Pentagon. I recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      Another interesting entry in the series. I have to say I appreciate that it is not necessary to read them in order, I would make myself crazy. Child can deliver some highly detailed descriptions. I have decided that I was mistaken when I thought I might enjoy an opportunity to ride in a helipcopter. I'm going to have to pass on that now. It is amusing to hear how different aspects of Reacher's personality are played up more than others in different segments of the series. In some of the other books, Child had focused on his feelings about coffee, in the past couple I have listened to, the focus has been on his ability to perform mathematical operations in his head. I guess you have to keep it fresh. So long as you are able to suspend belief over his feats of deductive reasoning, you will find this series entertaining.
    • 4/5
      Another fast-paced, hard-hitting Jack Reacher novel. Very enjoyable story, but a few obvious flaws in the logic of the story hurt an otherwise well-written and engaging story.
    • 4/5
      A Reacher is always enjoyable. The only reason that I've given this a lesser rating is that the reader was required to suspend disbelief too often. Guys THIS bad would have planned their security system better.
    • 3/5
      Jack Reacher does his stuff again. What is slightly different this time is that we get to meet some of his old army colleagues and see him interact with them. Reacher the loner is less in evidence.As usual the bad guys get their backsides kicked and Reacher gets on his next bus!
    • 4/5
      This was the third Jack Reacher novel I have read, although it is number eleven in the series, and I must say it was my least favorite. It starts with Reacher getting a message from a member of his old Army unit, the Special Investigations Unit, telling him that another member was in trouble. There is an admirable code that states if anyone messes with one member, they mess with all. What he finds out is that 4 members do not answer the call and therefore the remaining four must solve the disappearances and mete out justice themselves. Of course Reacher's brand of justice is the Old Testament eye-for-an-eye type, none of the life in prison crap the courts hand out. I was a little disappointed with this elite Army unit as I had the plot figured out half way through the book, and all but Reacher were still working in some kind of investigative field. Still the book did provide me with some entertainment. Reacher is still pretty much off the radar, although he did get a passport and ATM card. Things changed after 9/11. I will continue to read some of the other Jack Reacher novels whenever I feel I need an adrenaline rush.
    • 4/5
      This was a quick enthralling listening. Reacher has to solve the puzzle why members of his old army unit got killed respectively are in danger. During his investgations he learns about his colleagues lifes how they found their privat life and how they settled down. To find the evil one is a bit tricky because he changes the appearance and the name frequently but with the help of friends, they come to him soon on the track.
    • 4/5
      Bad luck and trouble. Lee Child. Enjoyed this read. I love this bit: Reacher, with a friend, has just bought a shirt in a charity shop, put it on and dumped the one he was wearing into the trash.“You could have kept the old shirt.”“Slippery slope,” Reacher said. “I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.”“People do that.”“Not me.”
    • 4/5
      Another enjoyable Reacher outing.

      In this one Reacher discovers that one or more of his old unit has bitten the dust due to some down and dirty doings. The remaining members of the unit, a crack force, help Reacher track down the bad guys and scotch their plans.

      As always, it's fun to spot the Brit-isms that pepper Child's dialogue, even though all the characters are American. People "laugh like drains" and call buildings "old piles".

      Another writer I like is Max Allan Collins, but I've noticed he has a pet phrase that appears, with minor variations, in each of his books: "He patted the air with his hands". I've noticed that Child also has a pet phrase. He likes to have Reacher "butt papers together". You know, when you have a loose stack of papers and you use your hands to make them line up. In the past few books, there has been one, but not more than one, paper-butting incident. Well, in this book, Reacher becomes a paper-buttin' wild man, butting together stacks of paper every few pages. He even manages to butt together a stack of paper napkins. Not as easy as it looks, but when you have Jack Reacher's skill sets, it becomes child's play.

    • 4/5
      Reacher is nothing if not off the grid. No cell phone, no car, no email address... needless to say, no luggage. But someone's tracked him down, and deposited exactly $1,030 in his bank account. Ten-thirty. The radio code for MP needs urgent assistance. It doesn't take Reacher long to figure out the who, where, and why. But getting to the bottom of the list of names, numbers, and missing friends is a whole lot tougher.Aw... Reacher has friends. And they're a lot like him. Who'd have guessed.
    • 3/5
      Reacher is reunited with the team, or at least some of them, as there seems to be a force out to destroy them all. Hidden in the fugue of L.A., they try to unravel the mystery.I enjoy these books now and then as a light escape from reality. About the same way I can enjoy a chick-lit, only different. It was enjoyable for what it is, a pretty good escape. My only complaint is that the author makes his hero to be the "super-intelligent-bad-ass-warrior" only he makes some stunningly stupid errors, which make it seem like he is a parent playing hide-n-seek, only pretending not to see or be seen and letting the child/bad guy get the advantage of him for a time.
    • 4/5
      Trouble has found Jack Reacher again, and this time it's struck close to home. One of the members of his old army investigations unit has been found dead in the desert after being pushed out of a helicopter, and another three are missing. The other members of his unit join forces with Reacher to get to the bottom of what's going on, and who's responsible.This is one well written page turner.
    • 3/5
      The plot itself was not so bad. It had a logical flow to it, the story had a good amount of tension, and there were no plot holes. My biggest issue is that I couldn't get into the Jack Reacher character. He just doesn't make much sense to me. How could he go from leaving a highly organized life as a military police officer who led his own squad to some drifter with no home, no job, no money. It's just not a logical progression, and he's not a believable character. He comes off as a bit of a loser. As a result, it was hard to get fully absorbed into the novel. But the story had a strong climax with a good action sequence, so overall I give it a thumbs up.Carl Alves - author of Two For Eternity
    • 4/5
      I liked this book, though it was a little harder to get into than the last one, but a faster read if that makes any sense. I love the Jack Reacher character and I love how these books dont have anything except for action and a plot. I havent ever been disappointed by a Lee Child book, highly recommend if you like the action, shoot'em up type of book!
    • 3/5
      In “Bad Luck Trouble,” the 11th book in the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, Reacher is in Portland Oregon in the time of his post military police career. He decides to pull together his old unit to investigated an 10-30 code for assistance which is an old code for help needed in his past life. From the moment Reacher’s hotel room is broken into and his few belongings trashed, he is on alert. In this book Reacher hooks up with Samantha, an assistant DA to find out what is going on. From a friend being thrown out of a helicopter to wondering about a military attack system this is a non stop action filled book. Lee Child never fails to engage you so that you want to keep reading the book straight to the end.