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Killing Floor
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Killing Floor

Written by Lee Child

Narrated by Dick Hill

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Jack Reacher visits a town without pity in the first novel in Lee Child's New York Times bestselling series.

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
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Release dateOct 27, 2015
ISBN9780451482266
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Killing Floor
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Lee Child

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and have sold over one hundred million copies. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far. www.LeeChild.com  

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Lee Child took me on a roller coaster ride as I have never read any of the Jack Reacker books and I can't wait to read more!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Having seen both Jack Reacher films (which I must confess to having enjoyed), I thought it only right that I take a look at one of the books that started the whole Reacher empire. I found a cheap copy of 'Killing Floor' on Amazon, and read the whole thing in about a week.At first, I was mightily impressed. The hard-boiled prose spoke to me in a voice similar to Dashiell Hammett's, and the in-depth knowledge the writer possesses of his field really came to the fore. I think I enjoyed this book right until Reacher and Hubble come out of prison - those first passages, when nobody seems sure what's going on or who can be trusted, really worked well.The problems began around that time, starting with a rather ridiculous plot device. Reacher, for whom nothing and nobody really seems to matter, discovers that the man whose murder he has been arrested for - SPOILER ALERT - is his brother. Now, the action all takes place in some tiny town in middle America, and Reacher only chose to stop off here at random during his peregrinations around the country; add to that the fact that the two brothers had barely spoken in years, and you have a particularly odd contrivance to work as motivation for what follows.And then, the hard-boiled writing starts to work against Lee Child. It's not sufficient to support a book of this length. My favourite sentence in the whole book (and pretty much the reason I'm giving this two stars) came when Reacher takes his date out to dinner in a restaurant at the airport, and describes the place (or the food - I forget) with this: "It was OK." Thanks for that, Reacher/Child. Whole sections of the book could have been skipped if this is the language we're going to be treated to.I'm not sure if I'd want to read another Reacher book after this one. I was entertained, more or less, as I read, but not to the extent that I would want to accompany Reacher on another of his adventures. I get the feeling that this is the prototype, and anything that follows will be something of a rehash - which might be an unfair analysis, but since I haven't read everything of Penelope Fitzgerald's or EM Forster's, I might prefer to invest my time there.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    first time reading lee child...like the premise of a drifter/hero Jack bauer type....counterfeit fit ring in a small town....
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The best part about Killing Floor is without a doubt the character of Jack Reacher. Child definitely planned it that way. He sets up the series with an introduction to a man who is ex-military, ex-law enforcement, and 100% loner with a secret soft heart. Reacher doesn't like to be tied down to any one place or person, but he can be swayed to stick around for a bit.And now for the plot. Jack has wandered into a murder and ends up being the prime suspect because an eye witness put him at the scene of the crime. When the dead man turns out to be Reacher's brother the plot thickens. How does Reacher clear his name, seek vengeance for his brother and manage to not fall in love with a cop? You have to read the story to find out.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Mindless, action packed, plot driven, shoot em up book. Quite a contrast to the last book I read (Anna Karenina).
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Starts off with mistaken identity - death of a brother
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Killing Floor is the first book featuring Jack Reacher by Lee Child. First, be sure that you put any idea or thought of the Jack Reacher movie staring Tom Cruise our of your mind. The book and the movie share almost nothing in common except for the main characters name and that he's a former military police officer. (Note - I enjoyed the movie, and in a way I am glad it was so different from the book, as it can be viewed through a different way without the need to constantly compare the movie to the book.)In Killing Floor we meet Jack Reacher as he is arrested in a small Georgia town diner for murder. A murder Jack knows he didn't commit because he was 800 miles away at the time. It takes a couple of days, and a stay at the local penitentiary for that to be straightened out, and by that time Reacher has been sucked into a case that is growing bigger and bigger. All Reacher wants to do is head out of town, continue rambling across the country. After a long stint in the army, and a similarly long stint as and army brat, Reacher just wants time alone to do what he wants to do. Unfortunately, his stay in Georgia is not giving him that opportunity. Told entirely from Reacher's perspective, I found the story to be a mix of fast-paced action, and long-winded discussions. I thought Tolkien could describe something to death, Lee Child seems to be competing for that honor. It serves to paint a very vivid picture of what is going on around Reacher and the world he moves through, but at the same time it tends to slow the action down. When a gun fight takes several pages to read (or minutes to listen to, as I listened to the audio version) it really spoils the action. The plot that Child creates was original (to me) and allowed Reacher to show his strengths as a former army cop, from his ability to deduce things about people around him, to combat skills, and working with limited clues. Reacher is an intelligent man, who thinks things through first, but isn't afraid to get into an altercation. Although he does take on a bit of a vigilante role as the story progresses. This works with the story, but it was hard to grasp how a man with so much military service, and most of that as a cop, was willing to break the law to get what needed doing done. It worked in this case, but at times it made me question Reacher's motives. Was he out to stop the criminals from their plot, or was he more out for revenge? That question wasn't really answered for me. At the same time, Reacher is shown many times to be a very intelligent person, able to infer things from limited facts, but at one point in the story he is given details about a murder that happened 60 years before and I immediately knew who was involved, yet Reacher, who had previously deduced the entire life-story of the town's head of detectives from only a few snippets of details, was clueless. That just didn't fit with his character. Overall I enjoyed the story, and I like Reacher as a character, but I would not rank this as a favorite of mine. The story was good, and well executed by Child, but his over dependence on long descriptive passages, especially when a faster pace was called for, was a distraction for me. A gripping thriller, with memorable characters, but suffers a bit from slow pacing. The audio version I listened to was read by Dick Hill. Hill did a good job with the material, but he sounded older to me than Reacher is supposed to be in the story. I would have preferred a younger voice, but Hill presents Reacher well.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very good - lots of technical details about an interesting subject as well as being a good thriller. Will read more of this series.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book was not nearly as good as I was hoping it would be. I was expecting a bit of a Jack Bauer thriller of a murder mystery, but instead I got a story that was predictable and full of stereotypes. I was not looking for great literature, but I felt that this could have been so much better. With that said, it was an easy enough read to keep turning the pages, and I am willing to give the next one in the series a shot.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book. I would recommend this to anyone who likes Robert Crais's Joe Pike books.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very good read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My first intro to Jack Reacher was when the first movie came out with Tom Cruise and I remember thinking "This guy is so cool, I want to experience more. I'll read the books". So now here it is nearly halfway into 2017 and I finally have read the first book.

    This follows Jack Reacher, a former military police officer, who is wrongfully arrested for a homicide while passing through a small town in Georgia. Things escalate and he is forced to assist in the case when it is revealed to have major consequences for the small town. Along the way, he befriends a detective named Finlay and starts a romance with a cop named Roscoe. Plenty of action and thrills to keep your heart racing.

    It was pretty good. Definitely a good character and great development. I especially enjoyed the storyline and the twists. But, while Reacher is an phenomenal character, I have to give my respect to the minor ones. I felt people like Roscoe and Finlay really pushed my rating from 3 to 4 stars. Probably my two favorite characters in this one. I can't wait to see where Reacher goes next.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Solid thriller and the first Jack Reacher novel.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I decided to start this series just for the heck of it and was rewarded with a great book. Jack Reacher finds himself arrested in smalltown, Georgia for a murder he did not commit, and while making a case for his innocence and release, finds himself in the middle of a massive counterfeiting operation and conspiracy that involves, of all things, his brother. What follows is Reacher and his newfound girlfriend trying to get to the bottom of this operation while avoiding atttempts on their life multiple times along the way. I was very impressed with how Child took many plotlines and wove them all together in a tight, thrilling novel. Reacher is a very interesting character, with many layers and capable of many things in a story such as this. Looking forward to other Reacher tales in the future.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Disappointingly predictable. Of course the mental image of little Tom Cruise in role of Jack Reacher didn't help.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, GA, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, GA. Not a chance in hell.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I'm kicking myself for not reading this book before. Jack Reacher is fantastic. The writing is excellent!
    I can't wait to read the other books.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Jack Reacher, was a military brat growing up, a military career man until the army downsized, and then became a drifter by choice. He's a one-man swat team correcting injustice as it finds him. In "Killing Floor" he just happens to get off the bus near the intersection of a small town in Georgia and after wandering on foot into the town of Margrave he is immediately arrested for a brutal murder which he obviously did not commit. He digs his way through several mysteries at one time including the identity of the murdered man. The suspense never lets up; there is a girl (a cop) that he loves but leaves with good romance and dialogue throughout.

    Jack Reacher has moved right up on top of my list of favorite main characters in a mystery series. 5 Stars for a fantastic hero and a series that I will look forward to.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Saw the movie. Was intrigued. Decided to read one of the books. Still intrigued.

    This is an airport book...thick enough to last a good flight, shallow enough to read quickly. Detailed, but not very imaginative and the clipped writing style wears thin after the first hundred pages or so. Still, it's a page turner, so it gets bumped a star. I'm going to assume that the numerous telegraphed gotchas and the bordering-on-absurd coincidence are overcome in later novels and will give the next a chance.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Tom Cruise is not Jack Reacher. Steven Seagal is Jack Reacher.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    fantastic read
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Cemented me as a Reacher fan.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent first book of the series. Took me a while to get used to the writing style but thoroughly enjoyable and a hero in the old mould. Hard to believe the author's a Brit from just up the road. Good job Lee.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    All of these two dimensional Jack Reacher stories have gigantic holes in them, but I still love reading them.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I'm hooked. Why did I wait so long to start Jack Reacher? A bit of love, a lot of murder, a bunch of whodunnit.. well on to book 2!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Pulp fiction, perhaps, but Lee Child's first outing for Jack Reacher is a rumbustious ride. Tersely written yet detailed where appropriate, the plot is quite ingenious, the surprises keep coming as the plot twists and turns.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Reads like action film, with an interior monologue from Jack Reacher so that we can follow his thinking. A good complex plot, with excellent, brief technical explanation of the criminal motivation. A nice introduction to Jack Reacher’s character, upbringing and personal drivers.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    My first Jack Reacher novel was fast paced, rapid with vivid dialogue. the only problem with this 13 hour book is that it would have been just fine at half that. Child can get overdetailed and repetitive at times. Even though I was underwhelmed, I'll have another...just to see if it gets better. If not, there's always the TV series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The Killing Floor is Jack Reacher's first adventure. It is a well researched story of counterfeiting the United States currency. There were many gory deaths described in this book. The characters and situations are all believable. It is highly recommended if one likes a good adventure.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    As others have said, the prose is unbearable if you have a healthy appreciation for fluid sentences and coherent usage of punctuation. I didn’t get past the first chapter, despite having an interest in the plot.