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Killing Floor

By: Lee Child,Philip Pullman - foreword
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Contains a new foreword written and read by Philip Pullman.

Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal best-selling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode. Trained to think fast and act faster, he is the perfect action hero for when times get tough.

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia. Jack Reacher steps off a bus and walks 14 miles in the rain to reach it, in search of a dead guitar player.

But Margrave has just had its first homicide in 30 years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town. He seems the obvious fall guy. As the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: they picked the wrong guy to frame for murder.

Now a major Prime TV series starring Alan Ritchson.

Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series.

©1997 Lee Child Introduction, 2022 Philip Pullman (P)2017 Penguin Audio

Critic Reviews

"Races along, spattering blood and body parts on the way." (Sunday Telegraph)

"These books are absolutely addictive. When you pick them up you can't put them down." (George R.R. Martin)

"All [Reacher thrillers] are ripping yarns, but since this is the first, it seems the logical place to start." (Stephen King) 

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HE SAID, SHE SAID killed it.

He said, she said gets old really quick, couldn't listen for long because of it.

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Dreadful Narration

Tried really hard to like this book . I lasted 6 chapters . Badly written and even worse narration.
Obviously I'm in the minority. I've listened to many books but this is just about the very worst.
I will be asking for a refund

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Failed to deliver

I was excited that I may have a new author to dive into. Unfortunately this book failed to deliver. The story line had potential but the quality of writing lets it down. It lacks polish, reads like an amateur author. The narrator becomes annoying not long into book. I struggled to continue. Not a book I would listen to again and would try the author again.

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The voice ruins the book

Sorry, but I just can't listen to the book. The voice is so flat with no emotion or feeling whatsoever..... I can't get into the story at all.... shame. really wanted to listen to these books.

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Great story spoilt by poor narration

The story is brilliant. Lee Child is a great story teller, with unguessable plot twists, and he writes in a way that makes for compulsive reading.

The narrator is dreadful. Each sentence is read out in the same way, with emphasis on the last few syllables, regardless of content or context. It's as if he has been giving a list of unconnected sentences to read out, and so he works his way down the list, in the correct order, but with no feeling or regard for the story.

Its a pity, Ive read quite a few Lee Child books, and I was looking forward to working my way through the Jack Reacher novels from beginning to end on Audible, but I don't know whether I can stand the poor narration. I wish Audible had chosen a decent narrator.

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Absolutely horrendous

Yes, 'horrendous'. Just the biggest bunch of absolute bollocks I have ever attempted to listen to. As others have pointed out the "he said, She said" gets very tired by the second chapter, but the storyline is where this atrocity really shines. I am pulling the pin on this at the 4 hour mark and absolutely nothing has happened except 'Jack' has headbutted the biggest inmate he could find. Classic.

I truly wish I could have those 4 hours of my life back but at the very least it has given me insight into the Lee Child world, one I shall never return to.



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Terrible narration

Could not persevere into the book as the narrator was unbearable to listen to. I felt the sort my have been good and may keep trying just to hear the end. Definitely won’t buy more with this narrator though

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Dreadful narration, couldn't get past 5 chapters

Slow, boring narration made the book very hard to listen to. The he said, she said is just terrible. Only lasted 5 chapters

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Sorry, don't like narrator

I love Lee Child and all his Jack Reacher books but I could barely listen to this narration. His accent wasn't at all like I'd expect an American Serviceman, who'd hardly stepped foot in America, to sound like. Also his portrayal of a feminine voice (Roscoe), well quite frankly, I found it insulting. Like a comedy example of a typical woman's voice.
Sorry. I'll stick to the books in future.

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ehhh

good story line. But I cannot stand the constant "I said" "she said" "he said"

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