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Jack Reacher is a former major in the US Military Police who, since leaving the army, has drifted round the wide open spaces of America, hitchhiking or on buses, wherever the whim takes him. He has no permanent address, no job, no family ties, no car, no luggage, no mobile phone, no credit card - all he carries with him is a folding toothbrush. 
Reacher is never looking for trouble, but somehow trouble always find him. He is the ultimate hero for our troubled times, with a keen moral compass and sense of justice, even if he is often prepared to take the law into his own hands: he says he doesn't want to put the world to rights, he just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.

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Too Much Time

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The Midnight Line

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The Visitor

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Echo Burning

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Without Fail

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Persuader

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The Enemy

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The Hard Way

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Nothing To Lose

(Jack Reacher 13)

Gone Tomorrow

(Jack Reacher 14)

61 Hours

(Jack Reacher 15)

Worth Dying For

(Jack Reacher 16)

The Affair

(Jack Reacher 17)

A Wanted Man

(Jack Reacher 18)

Never Go Back

(Jack Reacher 19)

Personal

(Jack Reacher 20)

Make Me

(Jack Reacher 21)

Night School

One Shot

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Hot, indomitable... knockout

The thing about Lee Child's books is that you can't put the damn things down

Child's strengths are fast-moving dialogue and gripping action sequences ... The excitement lasts from the first to the final page

The Jack Reacher series of thrillers...are all hugely exciting, and knowledgeable about weapons and technology. They exude a powerful sense of right and wrong ... We've seen him as a right of wrongs and always as God's gift to women

Lee Child is often mistaken for a US writer, so skilfully and enthusiastically has he embraced the idiom of the American thriller ... One of the genre's finest practitioners

Reacher sees justice done while kicking commendable amounts of ass ... Intricate plotting makes for an engrossing read

First-rate thriller, with the imperturbable Reacher meting out his brand of justice to the villains

(Jack Reacher 9)

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Six shots. Five dead. 
 
A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: 
 
Get Jack Reacher for me. 
 
Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the noble Reacher to this psychopathic killer? 
 
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Although the Jack Reacher can be read in any order, One Shot is the 9th in the series. 
 
 
© Lee Child 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2009

Jack's back!  In another taut, cool, sexy pageturner from the master, Lee Child.

Lee Child (Author) Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards including Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours. Kerry Shale (Reader) Kerry Shale has performed his acclaimed one-man shows in the UK and around the world. TV credits include Cracker and Sharpe's Rifles. Recent films include 102 Dalmatians and Max. Audiobooks include Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. He has won three Sony Awards for radio acting and writing and won Male Performer of the Year at the 2004 SWPA Audiobook Awards.

Now filmed as the blockbuster movie 'Jack Reacher', starring Tom Cruise. 
 
Six shots. Five dead. 
 
A heartland city thrown into terror. But within hours the cops have it solved. A slam-dunk case. Apart from one thing. The accused gunman refuses to talk except for a single phrase: 
 
Get Jack Reacher for me. 
 
Reacher lives off the grid. He's not looking for trouble. But sometimes trouble looks for him. What could connect the ex-military cop to this psychopathic killer?

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