Blue Moon

Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child.

It's a random universe, but once in a blue moon things turn out just right.

In a nameless city, two rival criminal gangs are competing for control. But they hadn’t counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch.

Reacher is trained to notice things.

He’s on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... hoping to get rich quick.

As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in.

The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher’s offer to help him home. He’s vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble.

What hold could the gangs have on the old guy? Will Reacher be in time to stop bad things happening?

The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure.

Past Tense

Jack Reacher plans to follow the autumn sun on an epic road trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn’t get far. On a country road deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been - the town where his father was born. He thinks, what’s one extra day? He takes the detour.

At the very same moment, close by, a car breaks down. Two young Canadians are trying to get to New York City to sell a treasure. They're stranded at a lonely motel in the middle of nowhere. It’s a strange place … but it’s all there is.

The next morning in the city clerk's office, Reacher asks about the old family home. He’s told no one named Reacher ever lived in that town. He knows his father never went back. Now he wonders, was he ever there in the first place?

So begins another nail-biting, adrenaline-fuelled adventure for Reacher. The present can be tense, but the past can be worse. That’s for damn sure.

The Midnight Line

Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It’s tiny. It’s a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher’s a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it.

Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she’s OK, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing.

He’s still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me, and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don’t get in his way.

No Middle Name: Jack Reacher Short Story Collection

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. 

A brand-new novella, TOO MUCH TIME, is included, as are those previously only published in e-book form: SECOND SON, JAMES PENNEY’S NEW IDENTITY, GUY WALKS INTO A BAR, DEEP DOWN, HIGH HEAT, NOT A DRILL and SMALL WARS. Added to these is every other Reacher short story that Child has written: EVERYONE TALKS, MAYBE THEY HAVE A TRADITION, NO ROOM AT THE MOTEL and THE PICTURE OF A LONELY DINER.

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.
 

Night School

It’s 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he’s off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind.

Two other men are in the classroom—an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there.

Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor—a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: “The American wants a hundred million dollars.”

For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: If they don’t get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism.

From Langley to Hamburg, Jalalabad to Kiev, Night School moves like a bullet through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities, and new and terrible enemies, as Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law.

Make Me

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover.

He expects to find a lonely tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing private investigator, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people.

Reacher’s one-day stopover turns into an open-ended stay…

Personal

Jack Reacher walks alone.

Someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president but failed to kill him. The suspected sniper has serious skills and is a hard man to find. Reacher tracked him down once and put him in jail. Now he's asked to hunt him again, and put him away permanently. 

Tracking the shooter will take Reacher from France to England after a killer with a treacherous vendetta. He'll need to uncover who did the hiring and what's behind the assassination attempt before executing his orders.

Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the only man who can find him.

The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.
 

Never Go Back

After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had.

Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the phone. But the officer sitting behind Reacher's old desk isn't a woman. Why is Susan Turner not there?

What Reacher doesn't expect is what comes next. He himself is in big trouble, accused of a sixteen-year-old homicide. And he certainly doesn't expect to hear these words: 'You're back in the army, Major. And your ass is mine.'

Will he be sorry he went back? Or - will someone else?
 

A Wanted Man

When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly-set, freshly-busted nose, patched with silver duct tape - it isn't easy to hitch a ride.

But Reacher has some unfinished business in Virginia, so he doesn't quit. And at last, he's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. But within minutes it becomes clear they're all lying about everything - and then they run into a police roadblock on the highway.

There has been an incident, and the cops are looking for the bad guys ... Will they get through because the three are innocent?Or because the three are now four? Is Reacher just a decoy?

With his signature Swiss-watch plotting and heart-thumping suspense, A Wanted Man shows Lee Child at his sublimely skilful best.
 

The Affair

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base.Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier?

Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.The county sheriff is a former U.S. Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Is the Pentagon stonewalling her? Or doesn't she really want to find the killer?

The adrenaline-pumping, high-voltage action in The Affair is set just six months before the opening of Killing Floor, and it marks a turning point in Reacher's career. If he does what the army wants, will he be able to live with himself? And if he doesn't, will the army be able to live with him? Is this his last case in uniform?
 

Worth Dying For

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?

 

61 Hours

Winter in South Dakota. Blowing snow, icy roads, a tired driver. A bus skids and crashes and is stranded in a gathering storm.

There’s a small town twenty miles away, where a vulnerable witness is guarded around the clock. There’s a strange stone building five miles further on, all alone on the prairie. There’s a ruthless man who controls everything from the warmth of Mexico.

Jack Reacher hitched a ride in the back of the bus. A life without baggage has many advantages. And crucial disadvantages too, when it means facing the arctic cold without a coat. But he’s equipped for the rest of his task. He doesn’t want to put the world to rights. He just doesn’t like people who put it to wrongs.

The heartstopping new thriller starring today’s most admired action hero.

Gone Tomorrow

'Noone kicks butt quite as entertainingly as Lee Child does'- Kirkus Review

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.

But now Reacher is confronted by a situation so disturbing and deceptive that the truth eludes him. Has he painted targets on the good guys’ backs

Nothing To Lose

***BOOKS BY LEE CHILD SELL AT ONE PER SECOND ***

"Child is the master of the revenge fantasy...a relentlessly thrilling puzzle, the best adrenalin-fuelled escapism" - The Miami Herald

"Electrifying...Bad Luck and Trouble unfolds with the simple immaculate logic that makes this series utterly addictive" - Janet Maslin

“The invicible Reacher is as irrestitible as ever" - The Sunday Telegraph

Two small towns in 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 redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except bloody-minded curiosity.

What is the secret the locals seem so keen to hide? A hard man is good to find. Ex-military cop Reacher is today's most addictive hero. Now he pulls on a tiny loose thread, to unravel conspiracies that expose the most shocking truths. Because, after all, Jack Reacher has nothing to lose.

Bad Luck And Trouble

***A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN HARDBACK AND PAPERBACK***

"The best thriller writer in the business"
Janet Maslin, New York Times

“Arguably today’s finest thriller series”
Publishers Weekly starred review

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get.

So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be deadly serious. The Special Investigators always watched each other's backs. Now Reacher must put the old unit back together. Someone has killed one of them, and he can't let that go.

The Hard Way

THE TENTH IN THE OUTSTANDING JACK REACHER SERIES

*** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***

*** A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ***

'The best thriller writer of the moment' - Janet Maslin, New York Times

'Arguably today’s finest thriller series' - Publishers Weekly starred review

'The best thriller writer in the business' - The Boston Globe

Late at night in a New York café, army-cop-turned-drifter Jack Reacher orders coffee in a foam cup so that he can move on at a moment’s notice. He owns nothing, carries less. He has never met a female colleague he can’t seduce, or a case he can’t solve.

But now Reacher is confronted by a situation so disturbing and deceptive that the truth eludes him. Has he painted targets on the good guys’ backs?

One Shot

***A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***

*** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***

*** 20TH MOST BORROWED TITLE FROM UK LIBRARIES 2005/ 2006 ***

A lone gunman unleashes pandemonium when he shoots into a crowd of people in a public plaza in Indiana. Five people are killed in cold blood, shot through the head. But he leaves a perfect trail of evidence behind him, and soon the local police chief tracks him down. After his arrest, the shooter's only words are, 'Get Jack Reacher for me.' What could possibly connect this psychopath and the wandering dropout ex army cop? Critics call Lee Child's thriller series 'addictive', so here is our annual, much-longed for, Reacher fix.

'Hot, indomitable… knockout.’New York Times

'The thing about Lee Child’s books is that you can’t put the damn things down.‘ Independent on Sunday

'Reacher sees justice done while kicking commendable amounts of ass ... Intricate plotting makes for an engrossing read.' Arena

The Enemy

** 4 WEEKS AT NUMBER 2 IN THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LIST **

** THE ENEMY RIDES HIGH ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST **

Two Special Forces soldiers—the toughest of the tough—are taken down one at a time. Top military commanders are being rotated from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. And somewhere in the vast, world-wide fortress of the U.S. Army, Jack Reacher—an investigator for the 110th Special Unit—is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can ever have: elite Delta Force commandos.

But Reacher won’t quit. He embarks on a quest that leads from the ragged edges of a U.S. Army base to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he did not know he had. And to a final meeting with his dying French-born mother, who divulges to her son one last, astounding secret.

Reacher is questioning everything he once believed…about his family, his career, and his loyalties…

Persuader

‘Persuader is ballsy, dynamic and not for the faint-hearted.’ - Daily Mirror

Undercover – by far the loneliest and most vulnerable way to work. But Jack Reacher volunteers for the mission without a moment’s hesitation. Because this time it’s personal.

Eleven days of planning produce a stunning eight second sting that carries him straight to the heart of enemy territory on Maine’s rugged Atlantic coast. As soon as he gets there, he realises that nothing is what it seems. What exactly is filtering into the country through Portland’s docks? Who will help and who will betray?

The clock starts ticking…

Two days there would be dangerous. Three would be lethal. Four would be suicidal.

But Reacher’s still there after five…

Without Fail

*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 2 BESTSELLER ***

How does the United States Secret Service protect the President and Vice President? And how can it know it’s doing the very best job it can? One newly promoted female team leader has a breakthrough idea:she will hire an outsider to act the part of an assassin and probe the weak points of her complex operation. An old boyfriend’s brother seems like an obvious candidate. She knows him only by reputation – and that reputation is fearsome. His name is Jack Reacher.

He takes the job, but only because he senses there is more to her request than a simple desire for perfection. He senses real danger in the background and he won’t leave his brother’s friend vulnerable. He finds serious weaknesses everywhere – and then is told of a macabre series of letters addressed to the Vice President-elect. The first reads: ‘You are going to die&rsquo.

Reacher has no doubt it will prove to be a true prediction – unless he can take a makeshift team through a thicket of bizarre and terrified witnesses in a desperate race against time.

Echo Burning

US & UK PUBLISHERS PAY OVER $1 MILLION FOR RIGHTS TO LEE CHILD’S FIFTH JACK REACHER THRILLER

In the Texan desert Reacher hitches a ride from a young woman. She’s rich and elegant with a beautiful little girl. But she’s tense and very frightened. She tells him a horrific tale of beatings, abuse and humiliation. Her husband is a monster. And she wants him dead.

She pleads with Reacher to take care of it. He’s no assassin…but he’s prepared to help her in any other way he can.

Until the husband turns up dead. And Reacher finds out every single thing she’s told him is a lie. It was an attempt to exploit him in the worst possible way. Or was it?

What if she’s the only person in Echo County telling the truth? What if she’s being set up to take the fall for something far more sinister? Some terrible secret worth killing for? The tiny Texas backwater is a tangled mess. Lawyers can’t help. Somebody needs to set things straight. Who better than Jack Reacher?

Running Blind / The Visitor

***A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BEST-SELLER***

***A NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLER ***

*** A WHSMITH NUMBER 1 BEST-SELLER ***

One woman. Then two. Then three. Then four…

Their promising military careers cut short by vicious sexual harassment, they’re living alone with their ruined dreams. Then they’re dying alone, one by one. It’s serial homicide. A killer with an agenda is on the loose. He’s walking into their houses, even though they’re alert, even though they’ve been warned.

Just like a welcome visitor. He’s leaving absolutely nothing to find except one horrifying, taunting clue in each location. The FBI Serial Crimes Unit moves into action. They have the resources. They have the techniques. Their computer searches come up with a name.

That name is Jack Reacher. They ask him to help them. They back up their request with a little harassment of their own. So help them he does… but in his own way, as only he can, with results that terrify them all.

Tripwire

*PUTNAM PAY $1.2 MILLION FOR THE US RIGHTS TO LEE CHILD'S THIRD JACK REACHER THRILLER*

*** A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***

Hook Hobie owes the whole of his life to a secret nearly thirty years old. His freedom, his status, his wealth. Everything. So he takes steps to protect that secret.
He has early-warning systems in strategic locations, dormant, waiting. He detects an investigator on the outer fringe. The investigator disappears. Hobie relaxes. But the investigator's client is a determined young woman. She recalls a name from her father's service days. That name is Jack Reacher.

Reacher has just a few days to tear along the trail. And at the centre of the web sits Hook Hobie, ready and waiting for him, the toughest opponent Reacher has ever faced.

Die Trying

*** WINNER OF THE WHSMITH THUMPING GOOD
READ AWARD ***

A Chicago Street in bright sunshine. Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere, meets an attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches. Naturally he stops to offer her a steadying arm, and they turn together – to face twin handguns held level and motionless and aimed straight at their stomachs.

Chained to the woman, locked in a dark, stifling van racing 2,000 miles across America. Reacher needs to know who he’s dealing with. The kidnappers are saying nothing and his companion claims to be Holly Johnson, FBI Agent. She’s fierce enough and tough enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote, hostile destination, they will need to act as a team and trust each other, pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds of other at stake.

Killing Floor

THE FIRST JACK REACHER THRILLER

***A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***

***WINNER OF THE BOUCHERCON ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST MYSTERY NOVEL AND WINNER OF THE BARRY AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL***

***FILM RIGHTS SOLD TO PARAMOUNT PICTURES IN A SEVEN FIGURE DEAL***

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter, just passing through.

He is in Margrave, Georgia, for less than half an hour when four policemen, shotguns in hand, arrive to arrest him for murder. All Jack knows is that he didn't kill anybody. Not in their town. And not for a long time.

Reacher's Rules: A Guide to Life according to Jack Reacher

My name is Jack Reacher. No middle name, no address. People mess with me at their own risk.

Rule #1. When in doubt, drink coffee.
Rule #2. Never volunteer for anything.
Rule #3. Don’t break the furniture.
Rule #4. Only one woman at a time.
Rule #5. Be on your feet and ready.
Rule #6. Show them what they’re messing with.

REACHER’S RULES covers everything from travelling light, cracking codes, handling weapons, conquering your deepest fears and understanding women.

Jack Reacher is a former US Army Military Police major. Since leaving the Army, the authorities have not been able to locate him, although his name crops up from time to time in investigations into murders, terrorism and other breaches of law. Last seen hitchhiking out of Nebraska…