Two lonely towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher never turns back. It's not in his nature. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets is big trouble. So in Lee Child’s electrifying new novel, Reacher—a man with no fear, no illusions, and nothing to lose—goes to war against a town that not only wants him gone, it wants him dead. It wasn’t the welcome Reacher expected. He was just passing through, minding his own business. But within minutes of his arrival a deputy is in the hospital and Reacher is back in Hope, setting up a base of operations against Despair, where a huge, seething walled-off industrial site does something nobody is supposed to see . . . where a small plane takes off every night and returns seven hours later . . . where a garrison of well-trained and well-armed military cops—the kind of soldiers Reacher once commanded—waits and watches . . . where above all two young men have disappeared and two frightened young women wait and hope for their return. Joining forces with a beautiful cop who runs Hope with a cool hand, Reacher goes up against Despair—against the deputies who try to break him and the rich man who tries to scare him—and starts to crack open the secrets, starts to expose the terrifying connection to a distant war that’s killing Americans by the thousand. Now, between a town and the man who owns it, between Reacher and his conscience, something has to give. And Reacher never gives an inch.
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"This was the first Reacher novel I read.It was a few years ago and it hooked me. My aunt had recomended these as something to read while I was on the road. Since then I have read and listened to quite a few and this is still one of my favorites. Still can't see Tom Cruise as Jack though. Really?"
— James (4 out of 5 stars)
“Colossal. Earthshaking. Stupendous…Jack Reacher is one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape.”
— New York Times“Explosive and nearly impossible to put down.”
— People“Do yourself a favor and get hooked on this series.”
— Cleveland Plain Dealer“At the stage of his career when many other suspense writers fumble for new ideas or settle on ho-hum, repetitive story lines, Child still cranks out thrillers that you simply can’t put down.”
— Miami Herald“With his powerful sense of justice, dogged determination, and the physical and mental skills to overcome what to most would be overwhelming odds, Jack Reacher makes an irresistible modern knight-errant.”
— Publishers Weekly“As always, Child constructs sentences like a flurry of jabs, before delivering a knockout punch of a climax.”
— Kirkus Reviews" Not nearly the best of the Reacher series, but still enjoyable. "
— Aaron, 2/16/2014" I started out really enjoying this book, and quickly lost steam. It reminded me too much of the first Reacher novel, and I was disappointed by Reacher's behavior throughout, especially at the end. Not enough to make me stop reading the Reacher books, but not encouraging. "
— Deb, 2/14/2014" Love the Jack Reacher series. They are such page turners. "
— Rebecca, 2/14/2014" Not really my favorite reacher. bcause it was longer than the other ones. it was pretty good though. And it gave me enough suspense "
— Taylor, 2/6/2014" Hooray, the hero is a strong silent type who's 'code' generally means finding hypocritical reasons to beat the shit out of people. There's also this weird thing where everyone else acts like an idiot but in carefully decipherable ways so the hero can put it all together like a jigsaw puzzle. Oh, and there's a strong and attractive female cop warning him to keep out of trouble. Will they or won't they? Will he leave town at the end to continue his drifter ways? Will every single bloody material object be described in a level of detail that you're basically reading a pornography of stuff? I suspect if you read any other Reacher book you could answer these questions. I will not be. "
— Benjamin, 2/4/2014" Really not the best work of Lee Child. Must be a fill gap novel by the author or hurried over by the publisher to make the deadline. "
— Somyajeet, 1/27/2014" It ain't summer without the annual Reacher. I particularly enjoyed his kicking of six asses at once in this episode. "
— Greenolv, 1/23/2014Lee Child is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Jack Reacher series and the complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have sold in one hundred territories. Two blockbusting Jack Reacher movies have been made so far, based on his novels. He is the recipient of many awards, including the CWA’s Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction, the International Thriller Writers’ ThrillerMaster, and the Theakstons Old Peculier Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction Award. He is a native of England and a former television director.
Dick Hill was one of the most awarded narrators in the business. We was named by AudioFile magazine as a Golden Voice and also as a Voice of the Century. He earned several of the prestigious annua Audie Awards for Best Narration and thirty-four AudioFile Earphones Awards. In addition to narrating, he both acted in and wrote for the theater. He passed away in 2022.