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All is not well in Margrave, Georgia. The sleepy, forgotten town hasn't seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned. An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The eas...

People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers in the lottery? What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark the numbers on the play card. And you would win. Same for the stock market. Same for basketball or the horses or anything. Same for killing people. Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact that they once worked for the military. And th...

In Tripwire, Reacher is settling into lazy Key West when his life is interrupted by a stranger who comes looking for him. When the stranger turns up beaten to death in the Old Town cemetery - fingertips removed - Reacher knows whomever the man was working for is not a friend. Reacher follows the trail to New York, where he confronts the people who dispatched the dead man: an elderly couple still mourning an all-American son lost in Vietnam, an...

Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up.She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So ...

Jack Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. "I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States, " she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP's security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team's shield. He has the skills and the stealth and no one knows him. How else can she be sure her protection is truly effective? What she doesn't tell Reacher - but what he soon disco...

Jack Reacher.The ultimate loner.An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family ... without possessions... without commitments.And without fear. Which is good, because trouble -big, violent, complicated trouble - finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once...not ever.But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man w...

Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child's New York Times bestselling series. Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he's kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to an unknown destination for an unknown purpose, they're at the mercy of a...

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This anthology features a group of 13 debut crime/mystery/suspense authors whose books were published 2007. The graduating class includes such rising stars as Robert Gregory Browne, Toni McGee Causey, Marcus Sakey, and others.

Two small towns in the middle of nowhere: 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 ...

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Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child's electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn't the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing ...

Jack Reacher torna a casa. O per lo meno al luogo più simile a una casa che un uomo senza legami e senza radici come lui abbia mai avuto. Dalle nevi e dal gelo del South Dakota arriva fino in Virginia, per raggiungere il quartier generale della 110ª Unità della polizia militare. È lì che ha prestato servizio come maggiore, prima di scegliere una vita libera lungo le strade d'America, al servizio della giustizia. Un viaggio nel passato, ma anch...

Un uomo cammina da solo nella notte di New York, illuminata da migliaia di luci artificiali. Un uomo, un ex poliziotto militare, un lupo solitario, forse un eroe: Jack Reacher. Per lui anche un gesto semplice come bere un caffè in un locale può segnare l'inizio di un'avventura. Qualcosa attira infatti la sua attenzione dietro la vetrata del bar: strani movimenti intorno a una Mercedes parcheggiata lungo il marciapiede. Gesti impercettibili, ma...

Bolton, South Dakota. Un penitenziario federale circondato dai ghiacci ma incendiato dalla tensione. Mancano 61 ore al processo più importante mai avvenuto da quelle parti e c'è una testimone da proteggere. Janet Salter è un'innocente bibliotecaria in pensione, ma ha visto qualcosa che non avrebbe dovuto vedere e ora la sua vita è in pericolo. Forse per questo tutta la polizia del luogo è schierata al suo fianco. L'ultima cosa di cui Bolton ha...

Gripping and suspenseful . . . Child ratchets up the suspense to new heights."-The Denver Post Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs-and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brillian...

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Hitting shelves just before Lee Child's wildly anticipated new hardcover, comes the mass market paperback of the #1 Reacher thriller that's leaving everyone breathless. Child ratchets up the tension minute by minute, leading up to the most talked-about cliff-hanger in suspense today.

Jack Reacher is back. The countdown has begun. Get ready for the most exciting 61 hours of your life. #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's latest thriller is a ticking time bomb of suspense that builds electric tension on every page. Sixty-one hours. Not a minute to spare.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 standi...