KILLING FLOOR

Killing Floor by Lee Child
Book 1 in the Jack Reacher series
Narrated by Jeff Harding
Genre: ex-military crime fiction
Format: ebook & audiobook

About Killing Floor:

Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave, Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret.

Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years.The cops arrest Reacher and the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out, and the body count mounts, one thing is for sure.

They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Source: Info in the "About Killing Floor" was taken from GoodReads at on /2024.

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My Thoughts:

The audiobook has a foreword by Philip Paullman that wasn't in the ebook. Paullman was bang-on, though! The thing I found about Lee Child's writing right off the bat was that it was compelling because he explained the "why's" of things and that made the story believable. Even if the event/action/whatever is not true, i.e., it really is not easier to head butt somebody, but the reasoning is convincing enough to persuade me, it made me as a reader believe in the lie. It made me, as a reader, connect with the story a little bit more. It made the story telling quality more compelling! Now I know what all the hoopla is all about!

My question is, why is this book titled "Killing Floor"?? The warehouse's floor? But every building has a floor...

I am an old Jeff Harding fan with the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly. So, for a very long time Jeff Harding's voice has been (and is still) Charlie Parker in my head. It took me some getting used to, to adjust to thinking Jeff Harding's voice as Jack Reacher, aka, Alan Ritchson! That! Took a bit of effort!

Quantitative Evaluation:

Story telling quality = 4.5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Writing Style = 5
Ending = 4.5
World building = 5
Cover art = 4.5
Pace = (16 hrs and 21 mins listening time)
Plot = 5
Narration = 5

Overall Rating: 5 out of 5 cherries

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Meet The Author

About 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 Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.

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The Narrator

About Jeff Harding:

Jeff Harding is one of the most active American actors based in Britain. He is regularly seen in film and TV but he maintains interest in fringe theatre. He is particularly active in voice-over and radio. Having competed in rowing for many years, he still lives by the Thames and rows regularly – an appropriate sport for the reader of Ben Hur.

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FTC Disclosure:
The ebook and audiobook were purchased with private funds.
No money received for this review.