Die Trying
- 434
- Pages
- about 8 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Die Trying” is a dependable Jack Reacher thriller: a kidnapping, a conspiracy and a hero who is never out of his depth. Readers who want action and momentum get both, in a book made for travel and long evenings. Some readers find it less of a puzzle than the first Reacher novel and feel that the stretches between the big scenes drag.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Die Trying is the second novel in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 1998 by Bantam Press in the UK and by Putnam in the US. It is written in the third person.
Reading order · Jack Reacher
Full order & progress →- Killing FloorStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - Die TryingThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - Tripwire
7.57.5 / 10 - Running Blind
7.67.6 / 10 - Echo Burning
7.67.6 / 10 - Without Fail
7.77.7 / 10 - Persuader
7.77.7 / 10 - The Enemy
7.87.8 / 10 - One Shot
8.08.0 / 10 - The Hard Way
7.87.8 / 10 - Bad Luck and Trouble
7.97.9 / 10 - Nothing to Lose
7.57.5 / 10 - Gone Tomorrow
7.97.9 / 10 - 61 Hours
7.87.8 / 10 - Worth Dying For
7.97.9 / 10 - The Affair
7.97.9 / 10 - A Wanted Man
7.77.7 / 10 - Never Go Back
7.77.7 / 10 - Personal
7.77.7 / 10 - Make Me
7.77.7 / 10 - Night School
7.77.7 / 10 - The Midnight Line
7.77.7 / 10 - Past Tense
7.87.8 / 10 - Blue Moon
7.67.6 / 10 - The Sentinel
7.67.6 / 10 - Better off Dead
7.37.3 / 10 - No Plan B
7.67.6 / 10 - The Secret
7.67.6 / 10 - In Too Deep
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 526 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 78% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Thriller average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 23 | 4% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 14 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 489 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Die Trying?
It has 434 pages — longer than 51% of the ranked books in Thriller.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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Same shelf — Thriller — with scores between 7.5 and 7.6, closest to this book.
