Genre
Thriller
Setting and Context
Margrave, Georgia
Narrator and Point of View
Killing Floor is told through Jack Reacher's point of view
Tone and Mood
Conspiratorial, thrilling, violent, mysterious, and conniving
Protagonist and Antagonist
Jack Reacher and his team/the Kliner family
Major Conflict
The major conflict revolves around Reacher's attempts to clear himself of murder charges (and find out who murdered people) and his attempts to stop a counterfeiting ring.
Climax
When Reacher goes to the warehouse
Foreshadowing
Hubble being alive is foreshadowed by Reacher and his interactions in prison.
Understatement
The lack of intelligence of some of the people surrounding Reacher is occasionally understated by author Lee Child.
Allusions
To history (particularly the history of Hitler and the Nazi party, racism, and the Aryan brotherhood) and to religion (many of the characters in the book are religious and reference religion), to previous thriller novels (which this book draws from), as well as to business.
Imagery
Child uses very descriptive language to paint a vivid picture of Georgia, saying it had "heavy, damp red Earth. Very long and straight rows of low bushes in fields. Peanuts, maybe. Belly crops, but valuable to the grower," for example.
Paradox
Reacher was able to see that he could have gotten out of his arrest at the diner, but chooses not to be arrested.
Parallelism
Reacher and his brother Joe's lives are often paralleled in the book.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Boys = members of the police force
Personification
N/A
