"Child's tough but humane Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer." Stephen King, EW
US paperback
UK paperback
Up close and personal. When Jack Reacher witnesses a suicide on a Manhattan
subway, he knows that there is more than meets the eye. Soon he's in deep, trying to unearth a dark secret
for which both the feds and Al-Queda are willing to kill to keep from being revealed. Even in a city of eight
million, a lone wolf like Reacher tends to stand out, and before long he is being hunted from all sides—which
is exactly what Reacher wants.
Delacorte hardcover May 2009
Bantam UK hardcover April 2009 9780593057056
Random House Large Print May 2009 9780739328460
Random House Audio CD (unabridged, Dick Hill) May 2009 9780739365915
Random House Audio CD (abridged, Dick Hill) May 2009 9780739340714
Random House UK Audio CD (Kerry Shale) April 2009 9781846571602
Bantam US eBook May 2009 9780440338550
REVIEWS
"No one kicks butt as entertainingly as Reacher."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Mr. Child is so good at what he does."
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"A compulsive page-turner head-and-shoulders above most of today's thriller writers."
—Omaha World Herald
"Child's writing is both propulsive and remarkably error-free, and he's expert at ratcheting up the tension...
the bad guys are always telling him, 'Stay away from this,' 'You're out of your depth' and the ever-popular 'You
got lucky.' You want to scream at them, 'This is Jack Reacher for pity's sake, he'll eat you for breakfast!'
He will, you know, and that's why we keep coming back for more."
—Los Angeles Times
"Like his hero Jack Reacher, Lee Child seems to make no wrong steps."
—The Associated Press
"Reacher is not easy to stop, even when the odds are 19 to 1, as they appear to be in the all-stops-out,
bloodsplattered finale—a brilliant set piece that hits home with the impact of a Reacher head butt...
Child grounds his hero’s hard body and hard-drive brain in believable detail, and he sets the action against a
precisely described landscape (this is a superb New York novel, offering, among other things, a virtual
user’s guide to the subway). If you’re a reader whose pulse pounds when a top-notch thriller writer hits his
stride, and if you’re not afraid to watch the bullet hit its target, then it’s a safe bet that you’re already a
Lee Child fan."
—Booklist, starred review
"All good thriller writers know how to build suspense and keep the pages turning, but only better ones deliver
tight plots as well, and only the best allow the reader to match wits with both the hero and the author.
Bestseller Child does all of that in spades... [He] sets things up subtly and ingeniously, then lets Reacher use
both strength and guile to find his way to the exciting climax."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"[T]he ever-resourceful and vengeful Reacher takes on nearly a score of the bad guys in an exciting climax to an
enthralling book that is as satisfying as its predecessors. Highly recommended."
—Library Journal, starred review
"[A] wild, gut-wrenching bloodfest through the glamorous and gritty streets of New York City. The suspense
comes as fast as an uptown express train. The climax leaves you breathless and begging for more."
—George Hackett, Contributing Editor, Newsweek
"This is pure, escapist, fun, kick-butt fiction... Jack Reacher is so competent, so capable, so willing to open
a can when a can needs to be opened, that it's a totally cathartic read! ... Who needs pasty vampire boys when
you can read about that?"
—Matron Down Under blog
