Worth Dying For (novel)
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| Author | Lee Child |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack Reacher |
| Genre | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Press (UK), Delacorte Press (US) |
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Publication date
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2010 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback), Audio, eBook |
| Pages | 440 |
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| OCLC | 505417122 |
| Preceded by | 61 Hours |
| Followed by | The Affair |
Worth Dying For is the fifteenth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published on 30 September 2010 in the United Kingdom and was published on 19 October 2010 in the USA. It is written in the third person.
On his way to Virginia to meet Susan, the current Commanding Officer of the 110th Military Police Squadron from 61 Hours, Jack Reacher stops at the Apollo Inn, a fading motel in rural Nebraska. In the motel's bar he overhears a drunken doctor refuse to treat a woman's nosebleed. The woman is Eleanor Duncan, the wife of Seth Duncan. He is a scion of the Duncan clan which holds that part of Nebraska in its iron grip because they run the only trucking company in the area. Everyone there has learned to bow to their collective will without question. Reacher suspects domestic abuse and coerces the doctor into doing the right thing, which quickly brings Reacher to the attention of the Duncan clan. He learns the victim, Eleanor Duncan, is beaten by her husband, Seth; out of a simple feeling of rough justice to be made, he looks for him until he finds him and punches his nose. But when he goes back to the motel where he was staying, he finds Vincent, the host, has been ordered to make Reacher leave the place. Reacher pretends to leave in order to not put Vincent in danger but in the dead of the night he comes back unseen to his motel to spend the night there before leaving. But in the morning he is woken up by Dorothy Coe, who works for Vincent. Not only is she not afraid of finding a man in a room which was supposed to be empty, but she tells him she knows the whole story. The Duncans are a real mafia gang, around the place; they run everything on their own terms, they're violent towards those who simply disagree and, to boot, she had a child who disappeared decades ago, Margaret Coe, who was supposed to have gone to the Duncans' property; but they had always been found innocent of the murder. So Reacher decides to find out the whole truth. He discovers the Duncans are a weird family made up of 3 brothers, one of which is Seth's father; they are arranging some weird and obviously illicit traffic from outside the country. Reacher manages to discover the plot; the Duncans are involved in children trafficking and are child molesters. Years ago they had killed, sold for prostitution and raped not only Margaret Coe, but hundreds of children coming to their property from Vietnam and controlled by a cartel guided by an Arab who used italian mafia guys, Cassano and Mancini who, on their turn, provided the Duncans with protection. Reacher manages to beat and neutralize, one by one, all the bodyguards - football players, actually - the Duncans used and then, in a final confrontation, he kills the whole Duncan family with the help of Vincent and Eleanor Coe, who's advised by Reacher not to go into the barn to see Margaret's bones to avoid seeing the bodies of the murdered children who are still there in a macabre display. They both flee away from there; Reacher is heading to Virginia to try to meet Susan Turner, the woman who now works where Reacher worked when he was in the Army, who helped him in *61 Hours* and whose voice is particularly fascinating for him.
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