Worth Dying For (Jack Reacher, Book 15)

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A master craftsman of action thrillers. More than just compulsively readable, Mr Child's work shows a perfectly-fashioned understanding of his protagonist, dogged and moralistic. Reacher may get old some time, but he's sure not showing any signs of it Wall Street Journal The quest marker can be found in the Siren's Tomb in the Pharmakeia Bay region of Kos. The closest viewpoint is the Alter of Apollo. Smash the door at the entrance to gain entry to the tomb, walk in and a short cutscene will play. make your way through the tomb, killing the few enemies along the path. In the final room, you will have have to kill the siren and loot her. Once completed, there is a short cutscene and some dialogue. Choose whichever options you wish. When you have finished talking, the quest will be completed. With so many strong-arm types flooding the prairie, there are plenty of opportunities for violence, treachery and double-crossing—think of a Nebraska remake of A Fistful of Dollars with an international cast—and Child ( 61 Hours, 2010, etc.) doesn’t miss a single one. By the time he’s finally shaken the dust from his feet, Reacher will have plumbed the depths of a monstrous unsolved crime, cleaned up the county and killed a lot of mostly nameless guys who really deserved it. So what are we to make of this book? It seems to have covered a lot of ground, and frankly on the surface one chapter sometimes seems disconnected from either the whole or its predecessor. Chaput starts with memory and within the body of the book we hear of the movie Casablanca, we hear of Cistercian monks dying, of scientism, the bureaucratic nation state, the French Revolution, the decline of the modern family, a survey of what people think of the Church, the four last things, and the nature of friendship, all of which is supposed to wrap up into “things worth dying for.” The Archbishop states that the book is “less a methodical argument or work of scholarship, more a collection of thoughts on a theme that seems to grow in importance along with the years” (p. 8-9). Does this book hold together or is it just a rambling of sorts of things the Archbishop wants to get off his chest before he passes?

I’m not saying that the baddies don’t deserve everything that gets dished up to them for they are, without a doubt, truly the lowest form of life, but the killing is just so unrelenting.In 1977, he became pastor of Holy Cross parish in Thornton, Colorado, and vicar provincial for the Capuchin Province of Mid-America. He was named secretary and treasurer for the province in 1980. He became chief executive and provincial minister three years later. Reacher is apprehended by Sorenson, whose boss wants Reacher arrested. Sorenson is about to do so, but instead talks to Reacher and discovers a barn a few miles down. Going to the location, they find a car on fire with an unidentified body in it. They assume it is the body of Karen Delfuenso. Afterwards, Reacher requests Sorenson drop him off a mile away from the building she works at. However, Sorenson is told by Goodman that Lucy Delfuenso, Karen's daughter, has been kidnapped. Goodman explains he had told Lucy her mother was missing (she was at her friend's/neighbor's house), and suggested Lucy's friend's mother stay home. Lucy's friend's mother went to work, leaving the children home alone, and Lucy is kidnapped. They also later learn the two men have shot a third person and that some terrorist threat against the United States might be involved. Together they try to solve the case and catch the fugitives. Abp. Chaput is a joy to read. Insightful, erudite, but plain-spoken. I cannot sum up the book better than the author does at the end of Chapter 1: "Chapter 2 speaks to how we should think about death and the verdict it passes on the lives we live. Chapter 3 examines the culture we have now -- a culture of irony soured into cynicism, a culture of deriding and refusing the questions that death raises, and the desert of meaning that results. Chapter 4 is about the Author of our lives, the true God and the source of meaning, and our chronic temptation to evade him. Chapters 5 through 8 examine the things -- sometimes ennobling, sometimes idolatrous -- that so many of us consider worth livig for and dying for: nation, ideas and ideologies, family and loved ones, and the Church herself. Chapter 9 speaks to the nature of our earthly pilgrimage and the 'four last things' we each inevitably face. And an afterword reflects on friendship: friendship with God and friendship with each other -- the essence of Christina life, and a foretaste of the life to come."

If media bias is all you know of this author, definitely read “Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living” by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. The book is an engaging series of essays that reveals the Archbishop as a seeker of truth. While the story is fairly run-of-the-mill for Childs, the prose is solid, and the action is well planned. The drama is somewhat limp for this story as the main characters are nowhere near as memorable as in 61 hours and other Reacher novels, and without attachments the story merely becomes a blow by blow account of Reacher pounding on the baddies, and dressing down the cowering townsfolk. Reacher kills Seth & then Reacher captures Jacob, he lets Dorothy shoot Jacob in the head 6 times for loss of Margaret’s 25 years away from her. Each chapter is a series of connected reflections which rather threw me off until I realized that it wasn't intended as one coherent narrative driving toward a goal at the end of each chapter. Each chapter has a single topic like friendship or memory or leadership. Each ties up nicely at the end but the middle leaves one time for reflections and pondering, just as the author intends. The book is full of wonderful insights, drawing on history, Chaput's own life, literature, and film (he's a big movie fan). The style is very personable and easy to read.

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Except they had never had a fight. Not in the sense meant by people paid to fight or die. Pushing and shoving at the schoolyard gate or on the sidewalk outside the soda shop or late at night after a start-of-summer keg party was as far from fighting as two fat guys tossing lame spirals in the park were from the Superbowl. These guys were amateurs, and worse, they were complacent amateurs, accustomed to getting by on bulk and reputation alone. In the real world, they would be dead before they even landed a blow.

The Archbishop is obviously a scholar and a man of integrity and well versed in the theology of the church. I took his words and thoughts to heart. Profound thoughts ... for broken hearts and damaged souls. He points to our yearning for God, for truth, for honor and all the other virtues that one holds on to amid a world that obviously has gone off the rails. Seth leaves, and Reacher manages to lure his two Cornhusker guards downstairs, where he subdues them, as well as two others when they arrive for breakfast. The last two Cornhuskers standing arrive next. One of them is the one who broke Reacher's nose. The other is John, which disappoints Reacher. Reacher forces the Cornhusker who broke his nose to immobilize John with duct tape. Reacher then challenges the Cornhusker to a fight, which Reacher wins easily, breaking the Cornhusker's nose in the process. The Italians kill the final Iranian as he interrogates the Duncans (having concluded that they murdered his partner after finding him in Seth's car) and leave to collect Reacher. After getting frustrated and stopping at Vincent's inn for the night, they are lured outside and killed by Reacher. stars. Second Son 2011 (short story at the end of the “The Affair” and available separately on Kindle) For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him.Also, I have to admit I had never heard of Archbishop Charles Chaput before purchasing his book. In the end I found my ignorance in this regard to be a blessing as I held no biases nor any preconceived notions of what to expect from the author. I took his words, thoughts and reflections to heart and pondered them with the same respect and introspection I would accord any other person in his position.

They and Karen drive off as Reacher explains to McQueen the answer to a question Reacher had asked Alan King earlier in the book: " Can you talk for a minute without using the letter A?". The answer is you can do it by counting from one to one hundred. The first letter "A" being the "and" in one hundred and one. Chapter 4, one of my favorites, is about Our LORD and God. It briefly traces the history of our understanding of the Author of Creation from Revelation through church and human history. We have always flirted with idols, from the very beginning, preferring their easy manipulability to the steadfastness of the Almighty. There is nothing new under the sun… Chapter 9 is worth the price of the book, but there is so much food for thought here. After reading this latest effort, if you have not read his other books, I would encourage you to go there next.Now, usually I’m the last to guess what is going on, and in this one I wasn’t sure why it took him so long to entirely grasp the machinations of the baddies. But no matter, I still loved watching him alongside the locals to slowly regain the control of the town which had so easily been taken over by an insipid and evil family. Once you have completed all three quests, return to the Adrestia and talk to Barnabas. Go through the dialogue choices and choose whichever options you wish to complete the Odyssey into the Past quest. Time has a purpose. The meaning of a sentence becomes clear when we put a period at the end of it. The same applies to life. When we talk about things worth dying for, we're really talking about the things worth living for, the things that give life beauty and meaning. Thinking a little about our mortality puts the world in perspective. It helps us see what matters, and also the foolishness of things that, finally, don't matter.This was a good series of reflections on big questions of life (and death) written by Archbishop Charles Chaput after his resignation upon turning 75 was accepted by Pope Francis. He gives us the benefit of his years of experience as he comes close to the end of his own life. Utterly compelling... one of Child's best. He keeps up the lightning pace, great writing and punchy one-liners throughout Daily Express