Echo Burning

Jack Reacher 5

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Brought to you by Penguin.

Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding.

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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

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Lee Child never disappoints

What did you love best about Echo Burning?

The story was complex - you were never sure whether Jack Reacher had been conned. I also love listening to Jeff Harding.

What other book might you compare Echo Burning to and why?

I wouldn't compare it to other Lee Child books, but I am a big fan. Every couple of years I listen to them all again.

What about Jeff Harding’s performance did you like?

His style is perfect for thrillers.

Excitement builds

Jack Reacher stories are amphetamine in writing. A friend 'pushed' me into them last Christmas - the first 2 consumed every spare moment from my week's holiday, and a good many more moments than they should have. At the time I thought luckily there were no Audible versions.

Now there are! Initially I didn't like listening to this first one I experienced. Jeff Harding has the right voice for the genre, but his women's voices sound like little girls. It took me a long time to latch into the story.

However eventually I did, and I enjoyed it. Jack Reacher is the 21st-century Odysseus, and like all good myths, this one resonates on multiple levels. In addition 'Echo Burning' builds the tension slowly, and eventually it hits a point of pushing more adrenaline than ice climbing. It kept me coming back for more. I suspect that it will for all who like reading of an interesting hero sorting through interesting problems.

Great as always

Bit more of a twist than usual. Worth a listen if you enjoy Reacher. Easy listening for a flight or lazy afternoon.

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All the fun of Jack Reacher in a real story.

In this novel, Lee Child comes up with a clever story with some great twists and turns to accompany his high intensity action sequences and granular writing style.

The best jack reacher so far.

I loved this one. The narrator was also good and suited the story. Unlike some of the narrators of the previous books in the reacher series he had a good deep voice which suited the main character but had the knack of being able to convey the impression of female character voice without the character sounding like a drag queen.

The story is great plenty of action as usual for a jack reacher book, but the story is much more engaging with more psychological twists.

This is my new favourite Jack Reacher book.

Great book

For the 1st half of the book the voice of the female character drove me insane

A bit dull

Pretty disappointed by this. Took a long time to get going and only in the last 2 hours did it get interesting. Probably not interesting enough to listen to though

slow skow slow

the story went nowhere for 9 hours. then it was over in 2 more, extremely slow and filled with unwanted description of things.