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Echo Burning
Jack Reacher (Related to this series)
- Author
- Lee Child
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 7 March 2013
- Run Time
- 13 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Espionage and spy thriller, Adventure / action fiction
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**
Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer.
Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful.
But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her.
Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.
Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.
Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series.
"Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good." (Daily Mail)
‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times
©2011 Lee Child (P)2013 Isis Publishing Ltd, Random House Audiobooks
Critics Review
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In the space of less than five years, Child has established himself as one of Britain's most successful commercial novelists...Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good
Daily Mail
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Reacher is a hero in the old Wild West stle: a fearless and capable loner, who lives by his own set of morals and is proud never to have killed a man who didn't deserve it...The author is in complete control of his complicated plot and has produced another real pageturner
Sunday Telegraph
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The British émigré Lee Child has become more American than the natives...A well-woven tale of dirt and duplicity with engaging characters...Child's character is a classic hero
The Times
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If you like thrillers of the bang-wallop variety, with a nice bit of plotting thrown in, this is the one for you
Irish Times
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Big, bruising actioner...Child's great strength lies in spelling out exactly how explosive things are made to happen...Cathartic stuff, expertly delivered
Literary Review
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Gritty stuff with a high body count and intricate plotting that keeps the pages turning
Irish Independent
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A taut thriller by a British writer who handles the American suspense novel well'
Yorkshire Gazette & Herald
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Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real page-turner
Sunday Telegraph
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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5.0 5.0
Jeff Harding is a spectacular narrator of Child's great Reacher novels. Echo Burning is a fantastic continuation of the series. Child's capacity to create interesting and deep characters is second to none. If you want a thrilling joyride of a book each and every time then Lee Child is your man. Five stars in every way from beginning to end.
Thomas Reilly 2026-04-05
Details
- Author
- Lee Child
- Narrator
- Jeff Harding
- Duration
- 13 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 March 2013
- ISBN
- 9781448169436
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Espionage and spy thriller, Adventure / action fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. **NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON**Jack Reacher, adrift in the hellish heat of a Texas summer. Looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A woman stops, and offers a ride. She is young, rich and beautiful.But her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her.Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and the lawyers won't help. She is entangled in a web of lies and prejudice, hatred and murder.Jack Reacher never could resist a lady in distress.Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Echo Burning is 5th in the series."Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the mega-sellers. He is that good." (Daily Mail)‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times©2011 Lee Child (P)2013 Isis Publishing Ltd, Random House Audiobooks
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