ISBN: 9780399142536
Release Date: 17 Mar 1997
Average rating: (read by 86 members)

Categories: Crime & mystery

From its chilling opening page, you know 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 easiest suspect is Jack Reacher - an outsider, a man just passing through. But Reacher is not just any drifter. He is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. He has lived with and hunted the worst: the hard men of the American military gone bad. When authorities learn the first victim was someone from Reacher's past, and he cannot convince them of his innocence, his patient self-defense becomes a raging crusade of revenge. With two cops who believe in him - a thoughtful black detective and a woman named Roscoe - he closes in on a ruthless conspiracy hiding behind Margrave's rural charm. But closing in on him is a team of killers so careful and efficient they are almost invisible. Step by step, the two teams circle - waiting to see which will be the first to walk onto the killing floor.

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castlecat7
Rated it 1 months ago
This is the first Jack Reacher novel and if you've not yet discovered Lee Child you have a thrill in store. All are excellent.

JackM
Rated it 4 months ago
A really good book, such a great lead character that really pushes the story along. I look forward to reading many more of Lee Child's books.


amandacraig
Rated it 4 months ago
The first and in many ways best Jack Reacher thriller. Like Durrenmatt's The Visit crossed with a Clint Eastwood movie. Superb.

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