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Book Reviewed by:A decade post-military, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no phone, no ties, and no address. But now members of his old team are being killed and when someone targets Jack Reacher's team they’d better be ready for what comes right back at them!
From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent
free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of
ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one.... And on the streets of
Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by
a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in
Lee Child’s explosive new 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.
A decade postmilitary, Reacher has an ATM card and the clothes on his back—no
phone, no ties, and no address. But now a woman from his old unit has done the
impossible. From Chicago, Frances Neagley finds Reacher, using a signal only the
eight members of their elite team of army investigators would know. She tells
him a terrifying story—about the brutal death of a man they both served with.
Soon Reacher is reuniting with the survivors of his old team, scrambling to
raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is
growing darker by the day. The deeper they dig, the more they don’t know: about
two other comrades who have suddenly gone missing—and a trail that leads into
the neon of Vegas and the darkness of international terrorism.
For now, Reacher can only react. To every sound. Every suspicion. Every scent
and every moment. Then Reacher will trust the people he once trusted with his
life—and take this thing all the way to the end. Because in a world of bad luck
and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they’d better be
ready for what comes right back at them
Child's writing style continues to get tighter and more powerful. Little time is wasted on peripheral chat, keeping the plot firmly moving forward. Child offers supremely satisfying, intelligent action - a must read for existing fans and a great starting point for newcomers...continued
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Lee Child was born in the exact geographic center of England, in the heart of the industrial badlands. The sort of place where minor disputes were settled with box cutters and bicycle chains. He's got the scars to prove it. But he survived, got an education, and went to university where he spent most of his time in the university theater; after which he went to work for Granada Television in Manchester. Over eighteen years he was involved with more than 40,000 hours of the company's program output. He also ...
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