"Personal"
Jack Reacher walks alone.
Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president.
Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heart-stopping, nail-biting book in Lee Child's No. 1 bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London.
The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.
Meet Lee Child.
The Hard Way (May 2006) was my introduction to Jack Reacher, Lee Child's protagonist. Reacher left home at 18, graduated from West Point. Performed 13 years of Army service, demoted from Major to Captain in 1990, mustered out with the rank of Major in 1997.Audio highlights of "The Hard Way"
Here is the voice behind "The Hard Way." Dick Hill, a golden voice
"This is escapist literature at its best with action that rivets and images that stay burned in the mind's eye long afterward."
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
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His answer: I really can't help it. I live in America. I travel a lot. I see stuff everywhere. And it makes an impression. Is the research easy? Sure it is. It's about as easy as getting a suntan in southern California. All you have to do is move to the U.S., and ideas and facts and stories rain on you. Sometimes you have to crouch and cradle your head just to fend them off.
"Killing Field," the first Lee Child novel with Jack Reacher is a thriller. Wish I had read it first, but it wasn't ruined for me by being out of order.
Welcome to Margrave, Georgia—but don't get too attached to the townsfolk, who are either in on a giant conspiracy, or hurtling toward violent deaths, or both.
All [Jack Reacher novels] are ripping yarns, but since this is the first, it seems the logical place to start.... Killing Floor wins awards for Best Corrupt Southern Town in a Summer Novel and Best Exploding Warehouse.
— Stephen King (yes, THAT Stephen King), Entertainment Weekly
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The action doesn't give you too much time to catch your breath, and you sure don't want to put the book down, except to extend the pleasure of reading about one of the most unique characters in mystery fiction. —Deadly Pleasures Magazine
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge and an order to move on. They're picking on the wrong guy. Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide? With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town, hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose? Audio excerpt of "Nothing to Lose" opening
Listen to "Tripwire"
Reacher's lazy anonymity in Key West is shattered by a stranger who comes to town searching for him but ends up dead. Following the man's trail back to New York, he finds a bewildered, elderly couple still mourning an all-American son lost in Vietnam, a woman Reacher couldn't forget, and a most vicious opponent.
A savage snowstorm and a tour bus crash land Reacher in the middle of South Dakota—unprepared. For the snow, that is. But he’s ready, as only he can be, to risk his life to protect a courageous witness. If she’s going to live long enough to testify, she needs his help. There's a killer headed straight for her and he'll be in town soon...or maybe he’s already there...
Listen to the opening here.
Did Reacher survive the explosive ending of "61 HOURS"
How could you doubt him? Now he's hoofing it through Nebraska to Virginia to see the new CO of the 110th Special Unit. She'll have to be patient because Reacher's just met victims of the Duncan family and before long he'll make up his mind to show those three badass brothers and wife-beating son why you shouldn't interrupt a man on his way to meet an intriguing woman with a very sexy voice.
One Secret Service mandate is to protect the Vice President; they're the best at doing just that. Or so they think. When Reacher is hired to test their assumption, he doesn't know he's not the only one after the VP. But these killers who want the VP dead don't know about Reacher either, and that may be their only mistake. An interesting switch with Reacher working with an old female buddy from the military and his brother's former girlfriend. Lots of intrigue in Washington D.C. This is my new favorite -- lots of dips and turns until a happy ending. Sorry to ruin it for you, but you'll still enjoy the ending.
When Jack Reacher witnesses a suicide on a Manhattan subway, he knows that there is more than meets the eye. Soon he's in deep, trying to unearth a dark secret for which both the feds and Al-Queda are willing to kill to keep from being revealed. Even in a city of eight million, a lone wolf like Reacher tends to stand out, and before long he is being hunted from all sides—which is exactly what Reacher wants.
"Echo Burning"
When a gorgeous, desperate housewife opens the door of her air-conditioned car to Reacher when he's hitchhiking in the high heat of a Texas sun, they end up taking the ride of their lives. Reacher wound through a maze of puzzling experiences to prove that his benefactor was what she said she was.
Walking along the street, Reacher sees a man who should be dead. Ten years before, that man murdered someone important to Reacher and got away with it. Should Reacher contact the police and let them sort it out? That isn't something Reacher has much patience for. No-wait justice, that's our guy.
Listen to an excerpt from "Persuader"
"One Shot"
"Pure, escapist gold...Reacher has amazing powers of deduction, a serious conscience and the occasional touch of tenderness. It's a wildly improbable mixture, one that can't be beat."
The New York Times
"The Affair"
In 1997, a dead woman was found behind a bar outside Fort Kelham, MS. The murderer could be a local or a soldier, so the Army sent one of their best men to investigate. A real superstar. That man wasn't Jack Reacher.
This is a prequel, set in 1990 before the events of Killing Floor. Reacher's still an MP, still a company man, still held to a strict code of ethics. When a general is found dead in a sleazy motel in North Carolina, it opens up a real can of worms. And while Reacher looks for answers, he could discover he's not such a company man after all.
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"Running Blind"
THE INSIDE STORY on why "Running Blind" has a second title in the UK. In this magnificent and utterly ingenious thriller, Reacher once again saves the day, proving that he is a unique hero, capable of holding his own in any situation. Running Blind confirms that Lee Child is more than capable of challenging the established names currently writing in this genre. |
"A Wanted Man"
Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia.
An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there.
All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat—to both sides at once.
In Lee Child’s white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.
"Never Go Back"
Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had.
Reacher is there to meet—in person—the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone.
But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.
When threatened, you can run or fight.
Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs.
Combining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces—and makes him question who he is, what he’s done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road.
