"Child is the master of the hardboiled revenge fantasy... A relentlessly thrilling puzzle, the best adrenaline- fueled escapism..." Miami Herald
US hardcover
June 3, 2008
UK hardcover
March 24, 2008
Two small towns in the middle of nowhere Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them,
nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can't find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee.
What he gets are four hostile locals, a vagrancy charge and an order to move on.
They're picking on the wrong guy.
Reacher is a hard man. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing at all, except hardheaded curiosity. What are the
secrets that Despair seems so desperate to hide?
With just one ally—a mysterious woman cop from Hope—and many enemies, Reacher goes up against a whole town,
hunting the rich man at its core, cracking open his terrifying agenda, asking the question: Who has the edge—a man
with everything to gain, or a man with nothing to lose?
Delacorte hardcover June 2008 9780385340564
Bantam UK hardcover March 2008 9780593057025
Random House Large Print June 2008 9780739327906
Random House Audio CD (unabridged) June 2008 9780739365892
Random House Audio CD (abridged) June 2008 9780739340691
Random House UK Audio UK March 2008 9781846571091
Bantam US eBook June 2008 9780440337805
REVIEWS
"The year's first red-hot beach book.... Colossal. Earthshaking. Stupendous.... Reacher's minimalist
character is perfect.... One of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape."
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"What is it that makes these action-fantasies so satisfying? [W]e find ourselves responding on a deeply
emotional, archetypal level...Reacher lets us experience what it would be like, just once, to slap every
last one of the fools aligned against us upside the head and then, pausing only to pack our toothbrush,
hit the highway."
—Booklist, starred review
"With his powerful sense of justice, dogged determination and the physical and mental skills to overcome what
to most would be overwhelming odds, Jack Reacher makes an irresistible modern knight-errant."
—Publishers Weekly
