The residents of the town just lie there on the page, not really doing much - there to give Reacher the information he needs and cower at the sight of the Duncans. The bad guys are even less than that, either generic tough guys whom Reacher can outsmart and outfight, or the Duncans, just talking about what they need to do to keep their shipment going or demanding that Reacher be taken out.
We get no sense of them being intelligent enough to keep this operation going as long as they have. Child leaves it all too clean and neat in a manner too unrealistic.
Worth Dying For is a great read. I just wish I could say it was a good book, too. Click here to learn more about this month's sponsor! I went back and reread the ending because I did not want Reacher to die he is virtually indestructible. He was able to escape the stairwell and either close the blast door and exit later or he left during the four hour roman candle. He would have had to steal some cold weather gear to make his getaway and he could have used the fuel truck. I liked the other members comment about getting Plato's associates then driving on.
I did not think of that though I did wonder about the fuel truck. My first worry was the surviving the brutal weather. May 05, PM. I made the mistake of reading a couple of the books out of order so not finding out how Reacher gets arm injuries had bugged me. What we know is that at the end of 61 Hours he is hundreds of feet below ground in a structure filling with aviation fuel and a lit flare on its way down.
The delivery method for the fuel was a truck which had a long hose attached, the end of which is at the bottom of the stairs spewing fuel and the truck about to drive away. The only way Reacher can make it up the stairs fast enough with his huge feet is to grab the fuel hose as the truck drives off and get yanked all the way to the top in seconds.
This accounts for his survival and arm injuries and leads us to connect the missing truck with Reacher's escape somehow, possibly his way out of Bolton. Jul 17, PM. I've read most of the back catalogue for Reacher stories and '61 Hours' is the closest I've been to putting one down due to an absence of credibility and too much transparency in the plot. I decided to stick with it and ended up very disappointed.
When I got to the end I felt cheated. I have given up on other authors no names mentioned here who 'play games' with endings to encourage sales of their next book. A poorly researched story, a more linear plot than usual, and an ending that is far below what Child is capable of as an author. I will be more careful when picking up another Lee Child in case it's as poor as this one.
Dec 03, AM. There was never any explosion to begin with. The hole was stated to be feet deep, and the kerosene fuel was stored in a tank on the bottom while the pump truck was at the top. Given ambient air pressure and the density of kerosene, a pump positioned at the top could only pump kerosene up from about 42 feet below it before a vacuum would form in the hose. Logically, therefore, the jet fuel was never pumped out of the tank in the first place, and it was all just a bad dream.
Dec 20, AM. Child mentioned in the book that the structure was 20 stories underground. Kerosene was spilling during Reacher's fight with Plato. To my understanding he wasn't directly next to the staircase, but near the B-ring or C-ring? Reacher could barely move underground. That's when the flare was dropped up top. It would have taken less than 4 seconds for the flare to hit the ground, right next to where all the Kerosene was dumped from the hose in the ventilation shaft.
Now here's where it gets interesting. If you put kerosene into a container or spill it on the ground, you will have a hard time lighting it up with a match. That is why kerosene is much safer than flammable liquids. The counter to the hypothermia argument is the heat produced by the fire, but still, surviving this mess is a stretch even for Jack Reacher's standards. What I found more disturbing is that the story would have unfolded just the same without Reacher there.
Holland and Plato would have been dead, burned to a crisp down in the "orphanage". The outcome may have been even better without Reacher there. Peterson may still be alive. Maybe the witness would have confided her intention to withdraw from the case to Holland, instead of Reacher, possibly making Holland spare her life because of that.
The story made me feel pity for Jack. His loner nature was cool at first, but now it's just lonely. His life lacks purpose. In a final book, maybe it would be a good idea for Reacher to finally settle down with a woman, maybe in an advisory role for the army martial arts instructor?
To be honest, I wish he he'd stop getting on buses. Jan 06, PM. Hannes wrote: "Child mentioned in the book that the structure was 20 stories underground.
To my understanding he wasn't directly next to the staircase, but View 2 comments. Killing floor 2. Die trying 3. Tripwire 4. Running blind 5. Echo burning 6. Without fail 7. Persuader 8. The enemy prequel 9. One shot The hard way Bad luck and trouble Nothing to lose Gone tomorrow Worth dying for The affair A wanted man Never go back RBSProds The sequence of Lee Child novels should give you some clues, though they tend to hop around different timelines as he finds more dangerous fun and games around the USA.
Petr This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [I think he did. When they found the defrosting track, those guys used they guns before they died, which suggest that JR killed them. And the other reasoning would be that there are more JR novels even though I didn't read them yet, so I don't know where in the timeline they fit. Gregory Drake Just cracked the cover on the next 1 in the series following 61 Hours, entitled Worth Dying For, but have only read the 1st 2 pages so far while visiting The Library if ya knowhatimean?!
Will pick it back up shortly, though the dust jacket's short description of the plot sounds pretty darn interesting, apparently picking up shortly after the cliff hanger of an ending of 61 Hours.
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