Lee Child

Teräksinen toimintasankari Jack Reacher jälleen keskellä vaarallista seikkailua.Baltimorelaisessa kahvilassa nuori mies hipaisee Jack Reacheria ohimennen, ja myöhemmin Reacher löytää taskustaan viestilapun: "Auta minua." Arvoituksellinen avunpyyntö tempaisee hänet vaarallisiin tilanteisiin ja odottamattomiin käänteisiin. Kuka kahvilan nuori mies on, ja miksi hän tarvitsee apua? Saatuaan totuuden selville Reacher panee pahantekijät maksamaan.Lee Childin ja Andrew Childin huippusuositusta trillerisarjasta on tehty tv-sarja ja elokuvia.

Legendaarinen toimintasankari Jack Reacher on pahemmassa pulassa kuin koskaan ennen.Reacher havahtuu yksin pimeässä, pahasti loukkaantuneena. Hänet on sidottu, kaikki hänen tavaransa ovat kadonneet, eikä hän tiedä, miten on paikkaan päätynyt. Viimeisimpänä hän muistaa liftanneensa autoon, joka suistui tieltä. Vangitsijat olettavat Reacherin olevan onnettomuudessa kuolleen kuskin rikoskumppani. He hoitavat hänet kuntoon aikomuksenaan saada hänet puhumaan. Reacherilla on kuitenkin muita suunnitelmia - hän aikoo panna vangitsijat maksamaan.Lee Childin yhdessä veljensä Andrew'n kanssa kirjoittamasta huippusuositusta trillerisarjasta on tehty niin tv-sarja kuin elokuviakin.

Legendaarisen Jack Reacherin luonut Lee Child saa tällä kertaa lukijasta niskaotteen rikostarinoilla.Henkivartija yrittää suojella poliitikon upporikasta tytärtä kidnappaukselta Rio de Janeirossa. Aseman nokkelin poliisi tekee työuransa kellarin pölyisessä arkistohuoneessa. Huumekuriirista palkkamurhaajaksi ylennyt mies tilittää oluen äärellä murheitaan tuntemattomalle. Armoton tappaja huolii uhreikseen vain roistoja.Reachereista tuttu vähäeleinen tyyli ja odottamattomat käänteet eivät anna lukijalle armoa. Vangitsevan rouheissa tarinoissa ihmiskunta näyttää parhaat ja hirvittävimmät kasvonsa.”Lee Childin teos. Miksi ihmeessä jättäisit sen lukematta?” - Karin Slaughter

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher "Reacher gets better and better. . . . This is the] craftiest and most highly evolved of Lee Child's electrifying Reacher books."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times A bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she's going to live long enough to testify, she'll need help. Because a killer is coming to Bolton, a coldly proficient assassin who never misses. Reacher's original plan was to keep on moving. But the next 61 hours will change everything. The secrets are deadlier and his enemies are stronger than he could have guessed--but so is the woman he'll risk his life to save.

THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child… ‘It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?’ Karin Slaughter ‘I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page’ The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling? Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential reading for anyone trying to write or understand fiction. Child teaches us how these stories still shape our minds and behaviour in an increasingly confusing modern world, and with his trademark concision and wit, demonstrates that however civilised we get, we’ll always need heroes.

WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD… ‘It’s Lee Child. Why would you not read it?’ Karin Slaughter ‘I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page’ The Times In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human. He demonstrates how hero stories continue to shape our world – arguing that we need them now more than ever. From the Stone Age to the Greek Tragedies, from Shakespeare to Robin Hood, we have always had our heroes. The hero is at the centre of formative myths in every culture and persists to this day in world-conquering books, films and TV shows. But why do these characters continue to inspire us, and why are they so central to storytelling? Scalpel-sharp on the roots of storytelling and enlightening on the history and science of myth, The Hero is essential reading for anyone trying to write or understand fiction. Child teaches us how these stories still shape our minds and behaviour in an increasingly confusing modern world, and with his trademark concision and wit, demonstrates that however civilised we get, we’ll always need heroes. Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, James Patterson and David Baldacci!

With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen. But Martin also reaches out to Child’s legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in Make Me; he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a “lightweight”; and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher. This compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.

With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in Manhattan, the filming of Never Go Back in New Orleans, all the agony and ecstasy of the creative process and the sheer hard work of selling a bestseller. They go on the road together, from TV studios to bookstores, from Harvard to Stockholm, amid literary conferences and gunshows, rivalries and reviews ranging from adulatory to murderous. We meet fellow writers like Stephen King and David Lagercrantz and Karin Slaughter, and dissect the latest novel from Jonathan Franzen. But Martin also reaches out to Child’s legion of readers in America and around the world. He tracks down a woman in Texas whose name appears in the home invasion scene in Make Me; he goes up a mountain in Montana in search of the only reader who thinks Reacher is a “lightweight”; and he talks to obsessive fans from Europe to South Africa who find salvation or consolation in the colossal form of Jack Reacher. This compelling account of life on the road with Lee Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Lee Child returns with a gripping powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" (The Washington Post).Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not? So begins a harrowing journey that takes Reacher through the upper Midwest, from a lowlife bar on the sad side of small town to a dirt-blown crossroads in the middle of nowhere, encountering bikers, cops, crooks, muscle, and a missing persons PI who wears a suit and a tie in the Wyoming wilderness. The deeper Reacher digs, and the more he learns, the more dangerous the terrain becomes. Turns out the ring was just a small link in a far darker chain. Powerful forces are guarding a vast criminal enterprise. Some lines should never be crossed. But then, neither should Reacher. BONUS: Includes a sneak peek of Lee Child's novel Past Tense.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher Never Go Back is a novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had. Reacher is there to meet--in person--the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But it isn't Turner behind the CO's desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about. When threatened, you can run or fight. Reacher fights, aiming to find Turner and clear his name, barely a step ahead of the army, and the FBI, and the D.C. Metro police, and four unidentified thugs. Combining an intricate puzzle of a plot and an exciting chase for truth and justice, Lee Child puts Reacher through his paces--and makes him question who he is, what he's done, and the very future of his untethered life on the open road.

Get to know Jack Reacher in the first six thrillers in Lee Child's #1 New York Times bestselling series--now available in a box set. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO Jack Reacher is the most compelling hero in action and suspense today--hailed by Stephen King as "the coolest continuing series character now on offer" and a household name for legions of fans who can't get enough of Lee Child's #1 bestsellers. Once an elite military cop, Reacher is now a man with no phone, no address, and no ties anywhere. He wanders the land and lives in the moment--a cool-headed righter of wrongs who can't let the bad guys get away with anything. This box set includes the first six Jack Reacher novels: KILLING FLOORDIE TRYING TRIPWIRERUNNING BLINDECHO BURNINGWITHOUT FAIL

Get to know Jack Reacher in the first three thrillers in Lee Child's #1 New York Times bestselling series--now available in a box set. DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO Jack Reacher is the most compelling hero in action and suspense today--hailed by Stephen King as "the coolest continuing series character now on offer" and a household name for legions of fans who can't get enough of Lee Child's #1 bestsellers. Once an elite military cop, Reacher is now a man with no phone, no address, and no ties anywhere. He wanders the land and lives in the moment--a cool-headed righter of wrongs who can't let the bad guys get away with anything. This box set includes the first three Jack Reacher novels: KILLING FLOORDIE TRYING TRIPWIRE

A masterpiece of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child - Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher "The truth about Reacher gets better and better."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that don't add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat--to both sides at once. In Lee Child's white-hot thriller, nothing is what it seems, and nobody is telling the truth. As the tension rises, the twists come fast and furious, keeping readers guessing and gasping until the explosive finale.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES - Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher A heart-racing page-turner that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown "Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer."--Stephen King, in Entertainment Weekly There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska . . . and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades old, that Reacher can't let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone--and it's not just past secrets they're trying to hide. They're awaiting a secret shipment that's already late--and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy. For as dangerous as the Duncans are, they're just the bottom of a criminal food chain stretching halfway around the world. For Reacher, it would have made much more sense to keep on going, to put some distance between himself and the hard-core trouble that's bearing down on him. For Reacher, that was also impossible.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Don't miss the hit streaming series Reacher "High-powered, intricately wrought suspense."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved . . . then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan--by dozens of people with one thing in common: They're all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye. "Propulsive . . . Child is] an expert at ratcheting up tension."--Los Angeles Times "Hold on tight. . . . This novel will give you whiplash as you rabidly turn pages. . . . May be Lee Child's] best."--USA Today

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "High-powered, intricately wrought suspense."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Hold on tight. . . . This novel will give you whiplash as you rabidly turn pages. . . . May be Lee Child's] best."--USA Today New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. And if you think Reacher isn't going to get involved . . . then you don't know Jack. Susan Mark, the fifth passenger, had a big secret, and her plain little life was being watched in Washington, and California, and Afghanistan--by dozens of people with one thing in common: They're all lying to Reacher. A little. A lot. Or just enough to get him killed. A race has begun through the streets of Manhattan, a maze crowded with violent, skilled soldiers on all sides of a shadow war. For Jack Reacher, a man who trusts no one and likes it that way, the finish line comes when you finally get face-to-face and look your worst enemy in the eye. "Propulsive . . . Child is] an expert at ratcheting up tension."--Los Angeles Times "A top-notch thriller."--Booklist (starred review) "Edgy . . . thoroughly engrossing."--The Miami Herald

Teräksinen toimintasankari Jack Reacher jälleen keskellä vaarallista seikkailua. Baltimorelaisessa kahvilassa nuori mies hipaisee Jack Reacheria ohimennen, ja myöhemmin Reacher löytää taskustaan viestilapun: "Auta minua." Arvoituksellinen avunpyyntö tempaisee hänet vaarallisiin tilanteisiin ja odottamattomiin käänteisiin. Kuka kahvilan nuori mies on, ja miksi hän tarvitsee apua? Saatuaan totuuden selville Reacher panee pahantekijät maksamaan. Lee Childin ja Andrew Childin huippusuositusta trillerisarjasta on tehty tv-sarja ja elokuvia.

Teräksinen toimintasankari Jack Reacher hengenvaarallisen salaisuuden jäljillä. Jack Reacher saa arvoituksellisen kutsun tapaamiseen kenraali Susan Turnerin kanssa Washingtonissa. Turner tarvitsee apua häneltä, mieheltä jota on lähes mahdoton tavoittaa. Vaarallinen ketjureaktio on käynnistynyt, ja vain Reacher voi pysäyttää sen. Reacher seuraa heikkoja johtolankoja läpi pääkaupungin varjojen. Kun totuus alkaa hahmottua, Reacher tekee sen, minkä osaa parhaiten: pysäyttää pahantekijät hinnalla millä hyvänsä. Lee Childin ja Andrew Childin huippusuositusta trillerisarjasta on tehty tv-sarja ja elokuvia.

The heart-pounding new Jack Reacher thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child. Washington DC. General Susan Turner needs help from the only guy she knows will get the job done right. Finding Reacher won't be easy. He's a wanderer. His trail will be faint. But it won't be impossible either. Reacher gets an invitation: a meeting with the general. Unnamed general, unnamed agency. Not the most attractive offer. But he's curious. Buckle up for a ride like no other...