A novella about America and Shepley from the bestselling novel, Beautiful Disaster. America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-- Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas could mean the next step, or the end of everything
Jack Reacher hunts the most elusive and intelligent killer he has ever faced in the latest in "one of the best new series in thriller fiction"( Publishers Weekly ). People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for 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... So begins Running Blind , the electrifying new novel in the acclaimed series featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact they once worked for the military. And they knew Jack Reacher. How and why these women are in danger completely baffles the elite FBI team working the case. There is no trace evidence. There are no links between the victims. Their bodies have no fatal wounds. And the killer has entered their homes and exited again like a summer breeze. Are these the perfect crimes? There is only one certainty: there is a new kind of killer out there, one so calm, cautious, and careful that even the brilliant Reacher is left running blind. "[Lee Child's novels] bring us not only bang-on suspense but an insightful look into how humans work." -- Houston Chronicle
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • The inspiration for season three of the hit streaming series Reacher! “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 brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise. Trying to rescue an agent whose time is running out, Reacher enters a crime lord’s waterfront fortress. There he will find a world of secrecy and violence—and confront some unfinished business from his own past.
En mars 1997, quand une femme de militaire est assassinee derriere un bar dans une petite ville du Mississippi, Jack Reacher fait encore partie de l armee. Infiltre, il enquete au sein de l unite suspectee dans la base toute proche. Mais il derange, a tel point qu il finit par douter du bien-fonde de sa mission et de l integrite des hommes qui l entourent. Certains seraient-ils prets a tout pour etouffer l affaire ? Doit-il obeir a la hierarchie ou jouer la carte de la verite ? Un dilemme de taille. Livre fondateur de la serie, Mission confidentielle revele pourquoi Reacher est devenu ce qu il est, ce loup solitaire sans attaches. Un precieux prequel suintant la testosterone et puant la cordite. Un thriller jouissif. Philippe Blanchet, RollingStone . Dote d un vrai sens du rythme et de l action, un page-turner avec le petit supplement d ame qui fait les bons romans. Hubert Prolongeau, Marianne ."
"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.
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.
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?
Good girl Abby Abernathy is resistant to the charms of college Lothario, Travis Maddox, so he tricks her into his life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain celibate for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis' apartment for the same amount of time.
In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'. For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are planning something big. Jack Reacher is fresh off a secret mission and a big win. The Army pats him on the back and gives him a medal. And then they send him back to school. It's a school with only three students: Reacher, an FBI agent, and a CIA analyst. Their assignment? To find that American. And what he's selling. And to whom. There is serious shit going on, signs of a world gone mad. 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.
Cinque minuti: tanti sono bastati al direttore del personale della fabbrica dove James Penney ha lavorato per diciassette anni a licenziarlo. Diciassette anni di vita contro cinque minuti, e ora Penney è un uomo senza lavoro e senza speranza. Gli restano solo sei settimane di paga e la sua amata Firebird rossa. E allora l’unica soluzione che gli sembra possibile è dar fuoco alla casa e scappare sulle strade d’America con l’auto. Via dalla fabbrica che l’ha tradito, via dalla banca, dai debiti, da una vita senza soddisfazioni. Un gesto di protesta, l’unico in una vita di sopportazione e obbedienza. Quello con cui Penney però non ha fatto i conti è il caldo del deserto del Mojave, che in poco tempo spinge le fiamme a bruciare anche le case dei vicini. E ora Penney è ricercato dalla polizia per incendio doloso. Lui e la sua Firebird rossa, in fuga sulla California Highway Patrol. Ma la strada di Penney è destinata a incrociarsi con quella di un uomo pericoloso, un giovane capitano della polizia militare alto e muscoloso il cui nome è destinato a diventare leggenda: Jack Reacher. Un incontro che potrebbe essere la salvezza o la rovina di Penney...
