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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.

Reacher 30

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Die Trying

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No Middle Name

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The Visitor

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Without Fail

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Persuader

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The Enemy

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One Shot

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The Hard Way

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Nothing To Lose

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Gone Tomorrow

(Jack Reacher 14)

61 Hours

(Jack Reacher 15)

Worth Dying For

(Jack Reacher 16)

The Affair

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A Wanted Man

(Jack Reacher 18)

Never Go Back

(Jack Reacher 19)

Personal

(Jack Reacher 20)

Make Me

The Midnight Line

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Marks a real departure for Lee Child, who homes in on two hot issues (US military veterans with mental or physical scars, and a related social plague currently in the news) ...Alongside this topicality is a poignancy that was lacking in earlier books.

Each year Lee Child comes up with another Reacher. Each year I lap it up. Love it...Best one for a while...there is something subversive as well as page-turning...The sentences are short, but that doesn't mean the thinking is small....I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page, at putting me in the thick of it all.

I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child….It is as good as they always are. I read every single one.

Addictive...Child's trademark staccato-style delivers all-action excitement as well as a sombre message about the hypocrisy of the US war on drugs.

An eccentric but winning blend of the serious and the playful, this modern western resembles a collaboration between the Coen brothers and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

The one that breaks your heart...Reacher has a reputation to live up to: drifter, loner, knuckles the size of walnuts, etc...[ yet has] more emotional heft than anything Child has written before.

A timely, affecting, suspenseful and morally complex thriller. In fact, it’s one of the best thrillers I’ve read this year.

Lee Child is showing no sign of flagging with this latest outing....You'll read this one in a single evening.

A contemporary version of the knight in shining armour: to Lee Child's many readers, Reacher is a mythic figure.

Lee Child is the master of plotting...full of action and adventure.. This is Child's most emotional book to date. There are issues concerning family loyalty,wounded veterans, disfigurement, the opioid explosion, and the habits of drug dealers...This is not just a good story; it is a story with a purpose and a message.

(Jack Reacher 22)

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
Read by award-winning narrator Jeff Harding. 
 
**NOW A MAJOR PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ALAN RITCHSON** 
 
Jack Reacher is having a bad day. 
 
It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. 
Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. 
 
All he wants is to find the woman. 
 
He'll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. 
If she's ok, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. 
 
Best advice: stay out of his way. 
 
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be listened to in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me. 
 
 
‘Jeff Harding’s [...] narration captures Reacher’s character perfectly [...] you have to savour every minute.’ The Sunday Times 
 
©2017 Lee Child (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks

Can you wait for the return of Reacher in 2017? Jack Reacher is back, in a new chilling, deadly adventure.

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.

Random House presents the audio edition of The Midnight Line: (Jack Reacher 22) by Lee Child, read by Jeff Harding. 
 
Jack Reacher takes an aimless stroll past a pawn shop in a small Midwestern town. In the window he sees a West Point class ring from 2005. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher's a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. 
 
Reacher tracks the ring back to its owner, step by step, down a criminal trail leading west. Like Big Foot come out of the forest, he arrives in the deserted wilds of Wyoming. All he wants is to find the woman. If she's OK, he'll walk away. If she's not ... he'll stop at nothing. 
 
He's still shaken by the recent horrors of Make Me, and now The Midnight Line sees him set on a raw and elemental quest for simple justice. Best advice: don't get in his way. 
 
'Each year Lee Child comes up with another Reacher. Each year I lap it up. Love it... Best one for a while... there is something subversive as well as page-turning... The sentences are short, but that doesn't mean the thinking is small... I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page, at putting me in the thick of it all.' - The Times 
 
'I just read the new Jack Reacher novel by Lee Child... It is as good as they always are. I read every single one.' - Malcolm Gladwell 
 
'Addictive... Child's trademark staccato-style delivers all-action excitement as well as a sombre message about the hypocrisy of the US war on drugs.' - Metro 
 
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Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me. 
 
And be sure not to miss Reacher's newest adventure, no.26, Better off Dead! ***COMING SOON and AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW***

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