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    Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
    Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
    Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
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    Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel

    Written by Lee Child

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! 

    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Suspense magazine • Stephen King calls Jack Reacher “the coolest continuing series character”—and now he’s back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child.

    “Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.

    Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there’s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he’s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way—right back to where he started, in Mother’s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine.

    Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher’s rule is: If you want me to stop, you’re going to have to make me.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9780804192866
    Make Me: A Jack Reacher Novel
    Author

    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. He is the recipient of many awards, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction, the International Thriller Writers' ThrillerMaster, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award.

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    • 4/5
      I thought "61 Hours" was dark, but "Make Me" takes this to another level. Wont go into details but this one looks more like a cross between "8mm" the movie and standard Jack Reacher story. Action is there, Reacher does act differently in many ways, all ingredients are there. Except that investigation part seems a little bit too rushed ( sometimes it seemed like parts of novel were missing) and the way they confuse the main antagonists in the end.... it is little bit too far fetched even for a thriller novel.

      But even with these shortcomings this is a good thriller, Reacher is still force of nature from whom evil guys cannot hide (and hey to be honest this is why I like the character). Recommended to anyone who likes thrillers and good action.
    • 3/5
      I've been a fan of Jack Reacher since the beginning and agree with other reviewers that the last few books don't meet the standard of those earlier stories. When I saw MAKE ME on sale for a low price, I snatched it up. My disappointment started at the beginning when Reacher met Michelle Chang. Their conversation was a litany of short sentences going back and forth, and without either of them answering specific questions. Reacher was on a quest to find out why the town was called Mother's Rest. He was being watched and followed. Somebody was interested in his every move.

      Reacher and Chang decided to team up and travel to several states in search of answers to locate her missing partner.; encountering hit men along the way. The story lags and I found myself falling asleep quite often. It is finally at the end of the book when Reacher, Chang, and a newspaper reporter join up and return to Mother's Rest. They finally learned what might be happening in this small town and hoped to find Chang's missing partner; knowing they may have to fight the entire town. This is also the first time that I find Reacher almost getting beat in a fight and ending up with 'head issues' that impair him until the end of the story.

      I'll pay more attention to the reviews before purchasing my next Lee Child book.
    • 4/5
      Another excellent Jack Reacher story. I had no idea where this investigation was going. Reacher and his sidekick Chang travel the country to get this one solved. They go deep into their search for Chang’s missing work associate and uncover way more than they expected.
    • 2/5
      WAY too slow and convoluted. Perhaps I am tiring of Reacher. Possibilities of the dark web and suicide?? I hope not!
    • 3/5
      Start with one of the great American clichés - a lone stranger gets off a train that usually sets nobody down. You know bad things are happening and you know they will get a whole lot worse. It has to be the USA - it could never happen in Adlestrop.

      All straight-forward Reacher stuff with a peculiarly nasty and pretty unpredictable ending. The odd loose end - what is the point of Jack's persistent post-head injury symptoms, for instance.

      Go on, read it, you know you want to if you have got as far as this!
    • 4/5
      Make Me is a good adventure story that starts off innocently enough. As all of the Jack Reacher stories it progressed into a horrible reveal. The story has to do with the deep net or the dark web and how it works. It is upsetting to learn that if you can think it, it can be found. Four stars were awarded to this book for its good story.
    • 5/5
      Mother's Rest is a town with an intriguing name. And, it's just the kind of place Jack Reacher likes to visit. Outside of Oklahoma City, it's surrounded by wheat fields in the middle of nowhere, has a small population, and a train happens to run right through it. But, as so many of his adventures start, Jack's in the wrong place at the wrong time. After teaming up with Chang, an x-FBI-agent-turned-PI, he decides to stick around and help her look for her missing colleague, Keever. What they discover is beyond anything Jack could have imagined, and he's seen a lot. Following the analytical suggestions Jack's famous for, the investigation takes them to Phoenix, San Francisco, Palo Alto, then back to the wheat fields for a shootout that borders on insanity. The action is non-stop, the characters are gritty, and the plot moves quickly. One of the better Reacher books I've read.
    • 2/5
      This one follows the standard Reacher formula - Reacher stops in random small town for his own reason. A person is missing, people behaving oddly, outsider is pushed away, cute girl likes him / needs his help. Amateurs try to intimidate / drive him off, so he digs in deeper. If you enjoy Reacher, you will like all of the standard parts here.

      My dislikes:
      The mystery is much more disturbing than average.
      The bad guys, which include a fair percentage of everyone in town, have no compelling motive or backstory to become this evil (money I guess, but that isn't enough to go here), and all the opportunity in the world for one disturbed conscience to bring this all down.

      So near the bottom of the series for me. I still finished it - you don't find out what is really going on until the end, as usual. But I wouldn't recommend it to others.
    • 4/5
      Love this guy!!!
    • 5/5
      I'm a big fan of Jack Reacher and his adventures. And this was a good one. This time he's landed in a small, isolated mid-west town where something's afoot. The usual Jack Reacher story. The plot, this time, was more intriguing to me. The second banana character, this time, was a little annoying. She asked Jack "are you ok?" about 79 times too many with no corresponding plot reason.

      But, Dick Hill, the book's reader, is really the very best in the business. His voice can sound like an amazing cast of thousands.
    • 4/5
      Jack Reacher lands in a small quiet town by chance where no one would expect anything evil to be happening. He meets Michelle Chang who mistakes him for a friend she was planning to meet there.

      Things get deep quick and unlike many of the earlier books I've read, this one did a lot of traveling around the country. I had a sneaking suspicion of what people were hiding about half way through, but it was much worse than I was thinking

      The end of the book seemed to be a little anti climatic, as in how do they leave that terrible mess behind and just walk off?
    • 4/5
      Once again Reacher stumbles into a damsel in distress, her troublesome situation, and subsequently sleeps with her whilst resolving said troublesome situation as much as said troublesome situation can be resolved.

      Seems like Lee Child has been watching the paranoid segments on current affairs television programs about the dangers lurking on the deep web and crafted that into a story, whilst yes it's an entertaining story, and yes it's more realistic than some of the other things Reacher has stumbled into. I couldn't help but feel it was a bit predictable based solely on the unfolding formula so soften used by Child in these novels.

      Sure, it's entertaining, but I would have liked to see a bit more unique direction.
    • 3/5
      Another solid story by Child. Once again reinforces the disconnect between the Reacher character and the Tom Cruise character in the films. He is way too small in all ways to fit the image portrayed.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: Reacher gets off of a train just to see why a town is named Mother's Rest. Here he meets a former member of the FBI looking for her partner. Following the clues leads them to the Dark Net and a series of murders for hire.
      Review: Interesting twists and turns with an ending that has to do with suicide and snuff films.
    • 3/5
      I dunno, it feels to me like Lee Child is getting lazy. I miss the early Reacher novels, tightly written thrillers that were really fun. Make me is way too long, with way too much filler. Next time Mr Child should hire an editor.
    • 4/5
      Number 20 in the Jack Reacher series (have only read one previously). Like Reacher, I kept wondering what was going on. What this little town called Mother's Rest was hiding that was bad enough for one ex-FBI agent to be missing (presumed murdered) and others in the town to try and eliminate both him and Chang, another ex-FBI agent trying to uncover what the missing man was working on. Assisted suicide, illegal yes, but profitable enough to finance the whole complex set-up and its underground connections? No. The story started when Reacher, curious about the name origin of a small town called Mother's Rest, disembarks there from a train and is mistaken for Chang's partner. He soon discovers himself and Chang under surveillance and immersed in trouble, which is when his vigilante nature takes over. And when the horrific truth is uncovered near the end of the book, I am truly horrified. Didn't see that one coming. Great read, a real thriller.
    • 4/5
      This book was my return to Lee Child after over a decade. Its great to see that the formula is still the same, the plot fascinating and the twist unpredictable for me. A gripping exciting and well written read.
    • 4/5
      So this is actually my 1st Reacher novel as well as 1st by Child's; was a story that really captured me but now I HATE that cruise was chosen for movie role; i'm mean he's a shrimp of a guy and Reacher is a big guy; seriously?? anyway the story was still good and i liked it; ending of this book really creeped me out though.
    • 5/5
      Does Reacher leave enough people alive to have criminals warning one another on the Deep Web about not messing with him?

      Jack Reacher decided to catch a train to a small town for a change and by walking around as per usual he managed to piss off the local criminals. This will end well for the criminals.

      Lee Child is a master of not wasting words. If there is exposition then it is important to the plot. Make Me is no exception. The twist for this thriller is revealed in little details throughout the story. It comes through as no less shocking.

      While I have grown a little tired of the formula for the Reacher novels, they still remain entertaining reads.
    • 4/5
      I enjoy a Reacher novel every now and then, and in this one, Alpha Male Jack Reacher feels the hurt in a few pages which makes him come across as 'human' for once--ha! I digress. Lee Child is a brilliant pacer but he describes every nook and cranny, every minutia which just makes me skip page after page. A matter of taste I supposed.

      All in all a good read.

    • 1/5
      Extreme Awfulness: "Make Me" by Lee Child Published September 8th, 2015.

      I'm going to write a pastiche à la Lee Child. It's going to be fun:

      He looked at her.
      She looked at him.
      They both climbed up the stairs without saying a word to each other.
      He said nothing.
      He tried unlocking the door, but the key didn’t fit.
      She looked at him again wondering what the hell was going on.
      He said nothing.
      He tried to force the door open with his huge and capable hands.
      She looked at him with admiration.
      He was finally able to open the door using a tooth pick he had picked up during dinner.
      Without looking at him she walked through the door ahead of him.
      He said nothing.
      The hotel room was stuffy.
      He hanged his immaculate shirt on a chair so as to be able to show off his chiseled body complete with bulging biceps and ripped abs.
      She looked at him with an uncertain look.

      If you want to know what happens next, read on.
    • 3/5
      This is a typical standard Jack Reacher novel.
      He ends up in a tiny village called Mothers rest he wants to take a wee break.
      All is not as it seems in this place locals aren't friendly and are very suspicious.
      Jack meets a lady called Michele who is looking for her private eye colleague she thinks he has stumbled on something.
      Jack and Michelle team up get help from a journalist and a cyber geek they uncover what really is going on in this village of the dammed.

      OK book glad I read it though.
    • 4/5
      Another gritty page-turner. But not for the squeamish.
    • 3/5
      I'm sorry to say that Reacher has reached the 'played out' stage of his tenure as one of the most compelling thriller characters of recent vintage.

      'Make Me' is basically a missing person investigation that, as expected, morphs into something much more complicated. Reacher gets pulled into the mix by a female ex-FBI PI as he makes an unplanned stop at a small town in the middle of nowhere. She's looking for a colleague who'd reached out to her for help but then disappeared. Reacher is looking to kill time, so they join forces.

      The plot is nicely done, with an unexpected twist at the end. I knocked it out in a day, which is normally a pretty good indicator to me of quality. However, I thought the writing wasn't up to Child's previous standards and the tension that typically pervades Reacher novels wasn't there except for the conclusion. There was a little more sexuality and a welcome return of the physical violence we expect from Reacher, but they seemed a bit half-hearted.

      Again, this is a good book, just not in the same league as the first several in the series. If you've not read Reacher yet, my recommendation would be to begin at the beginning.
    • 4/5
      Another great Reacher book. The bad stuff happens in, or close to, somewhere very remote in Oklahoma in one of those unwelcoming and threatening towns that Child seems to be able to describe so capably. The crime, or bad stuff, they're hiding is elusive and one only finds out near the end and it's a creative one. The action also moves around other locales in the US.

      As usual, the main attraction to Reacher isn't the vigilante violence but the great descriptions and Reacher's thinking.

      If you like Reacher you'll like this one.
    • 5/5
      Another solid Reacher book from Lee Child. Reacher gets caught up helping a private investigator find her missing partner -- while also trying to determine the exact case the missing PI was working on. Lots of traveling and guessing, and I liked that the mystery was not obvious and that it took a long time to come to conclusion.
    • 5/5
      A surprisingly easy and really entertaining read. I don't know how I get to this book but I think I'll pick up a few more of Jack Reacher series. While it started out a bit bizarre if you stick with it you'll be pleasantly surprised
    • 3/5
      Certainly this was not my favorite Jack Reacher novel. It's quite verbose as the author feels the need to set up the ultimate challenge Reacher faces--and takes more than half of the book to do so. That means there's much descriptive language and light character development with almost no narrative tautness. Subtitle for this might have been, "Jack Reacher learns about technology." It's clear that Child wanted to skew younger by making technology such an important aspect of this work, but that means Reacher is playing the role of student, not the most entertaining use of his talents. The villain(s) is also underwritten. For the first time, Reacher's age becomes an issue in the sense of his prior alienation from technology and also his ability to avoid injury. He's definitely mortal here, and the book ends with Reacher almost wondering whether he should join AARP. This may be more realistic, but it certainly does nothing for the usual strengths of a Reacher adventure.
    • 4/5
      Typical Jack Reacher novel.
    • 3/5
      This is a solid Jack Reacher where he arrives in a small town in the middle of nowhere, in the Midwest States, gets mistaken for someone else and then gets sucked into looking into the disappearance of a man who had been investigating something nasty in the small town. This was a typical Reacher and an enjoyable read, but perhaps finished just a bit too easily for my taste. 3.5 stars.