Another heartstopping page turner from the number one bestseller, starring Jack Reacher.
Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world, and are published in over one hundred territories. He is the recipient of many prizes, most recently the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction. Jack Reacher, the first Jack Reacher movie starring Tom Cruise, was based on the novel One Shot, and the second is Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.
'In the space of less than five years, Child has established
himself as one of Britain's most successful commercial
novelists...Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy
ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the
page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the
mega-sellers. He is that good.'
*Daily Mail*
'Reacher is a hero in the old Wild West stle: a fearless and
capable loner, who lives by his own set of morals and is proud
never to have killed a man who didn't deserve it...The author is in
complete control of his complicated plot and has produced another
real pageturner'
*Sunday Telegraph*
'Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real
page-turner'
*Sunday Telegraph*
'If you like thrillers of the bang-wallop variety, with a nice bit
of plotting thrown in, this is the one for you'
*Irish Times*
'Big, bruising actioner...Child's great strength lies in spelling
out exactly how explosive things are made to happen...Cathartic
stuff, expertly delivered'
*Literary Review*
Child's Jack Reacher series just keeps on getting better. This fifth adventure (after Running Blind) finds the ex-military cop in the parched desert of west Texas. While hitchhiking, he is picked up by a beautiful woman named Carmen Greer, an act that plunges him into a maelstrom of deceit, cruelty, and murder. Sloop, Carmen's abusive husband, is due to be released from prison, and she tries to persuade Reacher to kill him. He refuses but is concerned enough about her well-being to hire out as a ranch hand at the Greers' remote ranch, where he finds a strange, bigoted family hostile to Carmen and her young daughter. Within days of his return, Sloop is shot dead and Carmen arrested. To defend her, Reacher hires a newly minted lawyer, who, is female, gay, and vegetarian. Together they unravel the mystery, leading to an explosive, nail-biting climax during a chase through a thunderstorm. Highly recommended. [A BOMC, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Doubleday Book Club selection.] Fred Gervat, Concordia Coll. Lib., Bronxville, NY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
'In the space of less than five years, Child has established
himself as one of Britain's most successful commercial
novelists...Complete with crackling fast dialogue, an edgy
ambivalent plot, and the capacity to make his readers turn the
page, this feels like Child's breakthrough book into the
mega-sellers. He is that good.' -- Geoffrey Wansell * Daily Mail
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'Reacher is a hero in the old Wild West stle: a fearless and
capable loner, who lives by his own set of morals and is proud
never to have killed a man who didn't deserve it...The author is in
complete control of his complicated plot and has produced another
real pageturner' -- Susanna Yager * Sunday Telegraph *
'Plenty of twists and plenty of excitement...another real
page-turner' * Sunday Telegraph *
'If you like thrillers of the bang-wallop variety, with a nice bit
of plotting thrown in, this is the one for you' * Irish Times *
'Big, bruising actioner...Child's great strength lies in spelling
out exactly how explosive things are made to happen...Cathartic
stuff, expertly delivered' * Literary Review *
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