The introduction of Jack Reacher, a resourceful ex-military cop, sets the stage for a gripping thriller in a small Georgia town plagued by its first murder in decades. Arriving in Margrave while investigating a dead musician, Reacher quickly finds himself the prime suspect in a growing body count. As he navigates the dangerous situation, his skills and instincts come into play, showcasing his resilience against a backdrop of tension and intrigue. This first installment of the bestselling series promises relentless action and suspense.
Jack Reacher Series
Jack Reacher is a thriller series that follows a former military policeman who finds himself in dangerous situations. Reacher is known for his ability to solve complex mysteries and fight against evil. Each installment presents a new story where Reacher seeks to uncover the truth and bring criminals to justice. The series is thrilling and action-packed, perfect for thriller enthusiasts.
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Die trying
- 548 pages
- 20 hours of reading
A Chicago Street In Bright Sunshine. Jack Reacher, Strolling Nowhere. An Attractive Young Woman, Struggling On Crutches. Naturally He Stops To Offer Her A Steadying Arm. And Then He Turns Around To See A Handgun Aimed Straight At His Stomach.Locked In A Dark, Stifling Van Racing Across America, Chained To The Woman, Reacher Needs To Know Why He S There. The Kidnappers Are Saying Nothing.The Woman Claims To Be An Fbi Agent.She S Tough Enough To Be One. But At Their Remote Destination, Will Raw Courage And Cunning Be Enough To Overcome The Hopeless Odds?Full Of Non-Stop Action And Gritty Suspense, Die Trying Is A Tightly Plotted Thriller Starring One Of The Most Exciting Action Heroes In Today S Fiction, The Redoubtable, Romantic, Footloose Former Army Cop, Jack Reacher.
Tripwire
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
"Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florid, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girly says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead, with his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past?" -- back cover.
The Visitor
- 501 pages
- 18 hours of reading
"Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were acquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they're both dead. Both were found in their own home, naked, in a bath full of paint. Both apparent victims of an army man. A loner, a smart guy with a score to settle, a ruthless vigilante. A man just like Jack Reacher."--Cover.
Echo Burning
- 571 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Jack Reacher Six Foot Five And Dangerous.Adrift In The Hellish Heat Of Texas.Moving Like A Shark In The Water.Looking For A Lift Through The Vast Empty Landscape.A Cadillac Stops.A Ride, But With A Hitch.A Pretty Young Woman, Alone.Her Husband S In Jail.When He Comes Out, He S Going To Kill Her.Her Family S Hostile, She Can T Trust The Cops, And Lawyers Won T Help.Reacher Is Her Last Option.Will This Be The First Time He Says No - To A Lady In Distress?
Without Fail
- 560 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Jack Reacher walks alone.No job, no ID, no last known address.Doesn t want to be found.But he never turns down a plea for help.Especially from a woman.Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher
Persuader
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Ex-military cop Jack Reacher gets caught in the middle of an off-the-books FBI drug investigation when he spots an old nemesis--believed to be dead for ten years--alive and well in Boston and his attempts to tap into his old resources for help brings the federal agents to his door
The Enemy
- 592 pages
- 21 hours of reading
An elite military cop, Jack Reacher was one of the army's brightest stars. He is on the case after a general is found dead, and within hours the general's wife is murdered.
One shot
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man claims: You got the wrong guy. After that, all he ll say is: Get Reacher for me
The Hard Way
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Late At Night, A New York Café. Jack Reacher Orders Coffee In A Cup Made Of Foam, Not China. So He Can Move On At A Moment S Notice. He Owns Nothing, Carries Less. He Has Never Met A Woman Who Said No. Or A Case He Couldn T Solve.But Now Reacher Faces A New Case So Disturbing That The Truth Eludes Him. He Has To Sweat The Details And Work The Clues. Doing It The Hard Way. Until What Started On A Busy New York Street Explodes Three Thousand Miles Away, In The Sleepy English Countryside. With Reacher Striding Alone In The Shadows. Armed And Dangerous.
Bad Luck and Trouble
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
From the first shocking scenes in Child's explosive novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends and is on its way to something even worse.
Nothing to lose
- 560 pages
- 20 hours of reading
It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see ... where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later ... where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops --the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded--waits and watches ... where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair--against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him--and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that's killing Americans by the thousand.
Gone Tomorrow
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they're nervous. By definition they're all first-timers. Riding the subway in New York at two o'clock in the morning, Reacher knows the twelve giveaway signs to look out for. Watching one of his fellow-passengers, he becomes sharply aware: one by one, she ticks off every bulletpoint on his list. So begins the new heartstopping new thriller starring today's most admired action hero, the gallant and enigmatic loner Jack Reacher.
61 hours
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces--and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.
Worth dying for
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
Featuring Jack Reacher, hero of the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise, in an explosive follow-up to the cliffhanger ending of 61 Hours. Has Jack Reacher finally met his match? 61 Hours ended with Reacher trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible. Even for him. Was that really the end of the road for the maverick loner? Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write - a heart-racing page-turner no suspense fan will want to miss.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER “A veritable tour de force . . . brilliantly executed and deliciously plotted.”—The Washington Times Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends. Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission— and turn him into a man to be feared.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! “The indomitable Reacher burns up the pages.”—USA Today Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And a hitchhiker with a broken nose. An hour behind them, the FBI descends on an old pumping station where a man was stabbed to death—the knife work professional, the killers nowhere to be seen. All Jack 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, in which nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. “Furious action . . . [Lee] Child keeps the pacing swift and the surprises rolling. . . . [A] feverishly thrilling series.”—The Miami Herald “Smart, breathless . . . [with] one of the best female characters in the whole Reacher series.”—The New York Times “Subtle and nuanced [with] seductive writing and irresistible plot twists.”—Newsweek
Never go back
- 544 pages
- 20 hours of reading
NOW FILMED AS THE SECOND JACK REACHER MOVIE, STARRING TOM CRUISE Drop-out military cop Jack Reacher has finally hitch-hiked his way to Virginia. His destination, the closest thing to a home he ever had: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th Military Police. Reacher has no real reason to be here, except that he spoke to the new commanding officer on the phone. He liked Major Susan Turner's voice. But now he's arrived, she's disappeared, and things are getting weird. Accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide and co-opted back into the army, Reacher says nothing. But he's sure as hell thinking of a way out. 'Reacher is a man's man, a loner, a renegade crusader for justice...on the top of his form' Sun 'Bone-crunching, joint-popping... a man of steel' Evening Standard
Personal
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
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 heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one 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.
Make me
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a…
Night School
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine.
The Midnight Line
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
"Reacher rides the bus north from Milwaukee. At a comfort stop in Wisconsin dairy country he takes a stroll. Among the cheap junk in a pawn shop window he notices a West Point class ring for sale. It's tiny. A woman cadet's ring. Why would she pawn it? Reacher knows what Serena Sanderson must have gone through to get it. He fights through a biker gang and a South Dakota gangster, following the trail of the ring to the emptiness of Wyoming, in search of Major Sanderson. Is she ok?"-- Provided by publisher
Past Tense
- 504 pages
- 18 hours of reading
JACK REACHER NEVER LOOKS BACK . . . UNTIL NOW. 'There's only one Jack Reacher. Accept no substitutes.' - Mick Herron. The present can be tense . . . A young couple trying to get to New York City are stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. Before long they're trapped in an ominous game of life and death. But the past can be worse . . . Meanwhile, Jack Reacher sets out on an epic road trip across America. He doesn't get far. Deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. But when he arrives he is told no one named Reacher ever lived there. Now he wonders- who's lying? As the tension ratchets up and these two stories begin to entwine, the stakes have never been higher for Reacher. That's for damn sure. _________ Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, Past Tense is the 23rd in the series. And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.27, No Plan B! ***OUT NOW***
Blue moon
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
This is a random universe, Reacher says. Once in a blue moon things turn out just right. This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal turf war between rival Ukrainian and Albanian gangs. Reacher has to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks, the thugs, and the assassins. He teams up with a fed-up waitress who knows a little more than she's letting on, and sets out to take down the powerful and make the greedy pay. It's a long shot. The odds are against him. But Reacher believes in a certain kind of justice ... the kind that comes along once in a blue moon.
The sentinel
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Jack Reacher gets off the bus in a sleepy no-name town outside Nashville, Tennessee. He plans to grab a cup of coffee and move right along. Not going to happen. The town has been shut down by a cyber attack. At the centre of it all, whether he likes it or not, is Rusty Rutherford. He's an average IT guy, but he knows more than he thinks. As the bad guys move in on Rusty, Reacher moves in on them . . . And now Rusty knows he's protected, he's never going to leave the big man's side.
Reacher, a drifter, encounters FBI agent Michaela Fenton, who is searching for her missing twin brother linked to dangerous criminals led by the elusive Dendoncker. Despite suspicions about Fenton's secrets, Reacher offers his help, knowing that failure could be fatal in this high-stakes game.
No Plan B
- 464 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Lee and Andrew Child nail it again with NO PLAN B
The Secret
- 399 pages
- 14 hours of reading
The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the US. These deaths look like accidents and don’t appear to be connected. Until one body – the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window – generates some unexpected attention.That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who promptly calls for an inter-agency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the Army's representative.Reacher may be an exceptional soldier, but sweeping other people's secrets under the carpet isn't part of his skill set. As he races to discover the link between these victims, and who killed them, he must navigate around the ulterior motives of his new 'partners'. And all while moving into the sight line of some of the most dangerous people he has ever encountered.His mission is to uncover the truth. The question will Reacher bring the bad guys to justice the official way . . . or his way?
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No middle name
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Jack 'No Middle Name' Reacher, lone wolf, knight errant, ex military cop, lover of women, scourge of the wicked and righter of wrongs, is the most iconic hero for our age. This is the first time all Lee Child's shorter fiction featuring Jack Reacher has been collected into one volume.Read together, these twelve stories shed new light on Reacher?s past, illuminating how he grew up and developed into the wandering avenger who has captured the imagination of millions around the world.The twelve stories include a brand new novella, Too Much Time.The other stories in the collection are- Second SonJames Penney's New IdentityGuy Walks Into a BarDeep Down, High HeatNot a Drill Small WarsAll of which have previously been published as ebook shorts. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written- Everyone TalksMaybe They Have a TraditionNo Room at the Motel The Picture of the Lonely Diner
