Patreon Preview #361: Reacher for the Stars

So echo burning at all. Let's see. What can I tell you about this? This was chronologically, let's see. This was the, his fifth novel that he published, but chronologically it is the ninth Richard novel. Interesting. So he did write, he did write some prequels, but this is, I have not read this one also, this is his fifth, the fifth one that he published, published in April 2001. So they started in 97 and this is 21 and this is his fifth one. So that tracks. That's all I can give you about it. What do you think echo burning is about? This is the ninth. Okay. So I think what this is, is I think that this is set in a South, because if I know anything about Mississippi burning, it's that Mississippi. Yep. So I assume this was inspired by Lee Child's AKA James Polk Garfield. He saw Mississippi burning and he's like, I like that snappy title. Let me do echo burning. So I think it's in the South and I think there's echo makes me think well. Hello. Okay. So I think there's an underground sort of like literally underground tunnel system in the hills somewhere in the South. Let's say Virginia. Sure. In the in this in the sort of coal mines or something where there's some sort of drug operation going on and someone reach her nose and ex military friend is killed and he goes to the funeral and at the funeral, his friend's widow kind of clues him into how he died. And so Richard goes to the coal mines looking for looking for what happened and trying to put it into it. This feels like half of an episode of Richard and half of an episode of just a five. Justified. As I was talking, I'm like, I think I'm just describing just fine. Honestly, not a long walk between Richard and Marshall Rayland Gibbons. Like they're well just distinguished. Let's just say let's do some casting. So it's not too close to just let's say that the guy who's heading up this whole thing in Virginia is Walton Gaggins for sure. For sure. Send it apart. I could play it. All right, Aaron, that's I at all. You did get some things kind of pretty close in that one. Aaron, do you have a guess? Do you have a guess for what this for what echo burning could be about? Okay. You're they're in a cave. Hobo with a cave. I do like it. And at first, they're like isolation. And I think that they're alone in the cave and that the echo they're hearing is a real echo. Turns out it's a really shallow cave. Bad guy keeps just repeating what he says back to him. Am I close? Tell me when I'm getting warmer. I will let you know. And if you want to know a movie that did not hold up, shallow cave is just there's a lot of press that's going on there just. I'm warm though. No, no, no, no, I would let you know if you got anywhere near warm. Cave, I would say it's pretty cold. And so I feel like you're going deeper into cave. And it's not I don't hate the direction that you're going. It's just not is that the right. What about like someone starts copying him? Oh, I like that. Like he has like a yeah, like yeah, exactly. Okay. Okay. A mimic. Yeah. So there's that's good because you know, you can't put a foil up against Reacher who's just like, you know, like a five one like nerd because he's the Reacher's just going to like pound his head. Right. Yeah. He's got to have a rival that's like echoing him. I love that. Right. Yeah. And then it like and then no one believes him because he's like, that wasn't me. It wasn't me who said all those things. Oh, God, he's being set up. Okay. He's being set up by someone who is echoing him. All right. Here's what it's about. I'm warmer. Adel, Adel was closest with that going over. He would reach your hitches or ride in Texas. Okay. So the saddle is right in the south. Yeah. So it's Texas. Although tell somebody from Texas, they're in the south and they will not enjoy that. Exactly. He's more the west. Carmen, the driver is a mother of a young girl and is trapped in an abusive marriage. She requests Reacher's help after some deliberation. Reacher consents. However, at her remote ranch in Echo County, Reacher encounters lies, prejudice and hatred, climaxing and Carmen being arrested for the murder of her husband. With Carmen's true motives casted it out, Reacher finds himself investigating the truth. So widow. A widow, but it doesn't start out as a widow, right? Yeah. When Reacher meets her, she's just probably like a hot lady. You know, she's, yeah, smoking hot lady. I mean, okay. So this one has four stars on Goodreads. 100,000 ratings. So it's like, these are, these are well. Wow. 100,000 ratings. Yeah. And it's like, and this is just like the fifth book. Like he's, he's a, he's got a lot of ratings. What book on Goodreads do you think has the most ratings? The Bible? Like of any, I can't be the Bible. Nobody's read the Bible. Harry Potter. Yeah. I do think I would probably guesstimate 87% of all Lee Child books have been read in an airport. Oh, I'm, I guarantee you could go and walk into any airport in the country and find a Lee Child book. Like there's a mass market paper back. Yeah. There's probably like a whole section that's just devoted to like, hey, you got, you got an hour on airplane cracking to a reacher. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Hunger Games. The Fault in Our Stars, the Nightingale in 1984. Yeah. That makes sense. That makes sense. Interesting. Here's a review from Mike the Paladin. The Paladin is in parentheses. What are the better reach your books? I've given three positive reviews on a row here. Pretty good. Kind of a little something about Mike. This book is what I'd call an interesting opening. If you've read many of the reviews, you know I use that word frequently. It says so much. I do love some of me like, I know what you're thinking. Why is that interesting a lot? Guess what? It's not a crime to be interested. It actually makes you pretty cool. 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And my guy was all had like what's godee. Hey man, why are you painted like godee in the middle of this cave? I was trying to blend with the cave. You still go like a sore thumb, you're painted like codee. So you knew you were punching me? Yeah, got you. Fuck, fuck. Mr. Cave, you think you can get away with this? So you found out my real name, Mr. Cave's. And this was not, this was just the cave is brown. So I used, I just want to get ahead of this. Hey, I wasn't even going to say anything. I'm a bad guy. I'm a bad guy. I'm a bad guy. I'm a bad guy. I'm a bad guy. Don't do what I did to you. Stop it. Stop it. I'm covered in shit. I never said that. I take it on a knife and I stab right between the ribs. Oh, you stabbed the cave and I'm over here. How are you doing this? I'm just looking at this. Hey, man, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Wait, are you like to win? Or are you just kind of... Hey, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, okay. No. All right, okay. This is serious. No one can see us. Let's just say that we had this huge fight. We think I won. We'll call it, call it quits. Let me a little brother. What? Listen to the rest of the episode now by starting your free seven day trial at patreon.com.