Because this soldier's son is on his way into the darkness, where he finds a tangled drama of desperate desires and violent death and a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed. With his French-born mother dying, and divulging to her son one last, stunning secret, Reacher is forced to question everything he once believed about his family, his career, his loyalties and himself. And he's taking a young female lieutenant with him on a deadly hunt that leads them from the ragged edges of a rural army post to the winding streets of Paris to a confrontation with an enemy he didn't know he had. Army, Jack Reacher, an ordinarily untouchable investigator for the 110th Special Unit, is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have.īut Reacher won't quit. According to a report from The Guardian, Child, 65 (whose real name is James Grant), is ready for retirement. And somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Lee Child, the mega-popular, New York Times bestselling author, is done writing Jack Reacher books. Top military commanders are moved from place to place in a bizarre game of chess. Two Special Forces soldiers, the toughest of the tough, are taken down, one at a time. Child’s first novel, Killing Floor released in 1997 went on to win the Anthony. Within hours the general's wife is murdered hundreds of miles away. Lee Child has written a staggering 26 novels for the Jack Reacher series, published between 19. Within minutes Jack Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. It was a time of huge change and upheaval.

In that aforementioned TV career, as well as my day job, I was the union organizer for the last couple of years. And in a North Carolina 'hot-sheets' motel, a two-star general is found dead. Lee Child Illustration by Jillian Tamaki. Author Lee Child has now written 26 books based on the adventures of Jack Reacher, a mysterious ex-army major who wanders through the U.S. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. But in every cop's life there is a turning point. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. Winner of the 2005 BookBrowse Ruby Award for Most Popular Book in Category

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