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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.

Exit Strategy

(Jack Reacher 7)

Persuader

(Jack Reacher 29)

In Too Deep

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Safe Enough

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Jack Reacher, Book 28

The Secret

(Jack Reacher 3)

Tripwire

(Jack Reacher 11)

Bad Luck And Trouble

No Plan B

(Jack Reacher 2)

Die Trying

Reacher's Rules: Life Lessons From Jack Reacher

(Jack Reacher 26)

Better Off Dead

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Killing Floor

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The Sentinel

(Jack Reacher 24)

Blue Moon

(Jack Reacher 23)

Past Tense

A Jack Reacher short story

The Fourth Man

A Jack Reacher Short Story

The Christmas Scorpion

Too Much Time

Two Jack Reacher short stories

James Penney's New Identity/Guy Walks Into a Bar

Deep Down (A Jack Reacher short story)

High Heat: (A Jack Reacher Novella)

Not a Drill (A Jack Reacher short story)

(The new Jack Reacher short story)

Small Wars

The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Stories

No Middle Name

Second Son: (Jack Reacher Short Story)

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A Jack Reacher short story published as an individual ebook, now also available in the new complete Jack Reacher short story collection, No Middle Name. 
 
Ever wondered what early experiences shaped Reacher's explosive career as butt-kicker supreme, the one-man guided-missile battler for justice? Lee Child looks back on an incident in his hero Jack Reacher's teenage years as the younger son of a tough career US Marine, on a faraway military base in the Pacific. 
 
'The coolest continuing series character now on offer' Stephen King

A Jack Reacher short story about our hero as a teenager, now also available in the new complete Jack Reacher short story collection, No Middle Name.

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.

Second Son: (Jack Reacher Short Story)

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