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reviewed Nothing to Lose by Lee Child (Jack Reacher, #12)

Lee Child: Nothing to Lose (EBook, 2008, Delacorte) 4 stars

Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. …

Competence porn with a somewhat preposterous setup

3 stars

Standard Jack Reacher. Teacher blows into town. Gets hassled and rather than move on, decides to mess with the people who hassled him

The preposterous part is the entire town of Despair Colorado is complicit. Even more preposterous is that no one talks. They just run Reacher right out of town for mysterious reasons. But if you can suspend disbelief on that, the rest falls into place.