"Jack Reacher ... meets terror with a shrug, tragedy with the tiniest flick of jaw-muscle and copes with hours of brutal confinement by doing intricate mental arithmetic..." Sunday Express
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A Chicago street in bright sunshine. Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere, meets an attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches, alone. Naturally he stops to offer her a steadying arm and then they turn together—to face twin handguns held level and motionless and aimed straight at their stomachs.
Chained to the woman, locked in a dark, stifling van racing 2,000 miles across America, Reacher needs to know who he's dealing with. The kidnappers are saying nothing and his companion claims to be Holly Johnson, FBI agent. She's fierce enough and tough enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote, hostile destination, they will need to act as a team and trust each other, pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds more at stake.
Putnam hardcover July 1998
Jove mass-market paperback May 1999 0515125024
Berkley trade paperback May 2005 0425206211
Bantam hardcover April 1998
Bantam paperback March 1999 0553505416
Brilliance Audio August 2004 Unabridged 1593555598 / CD 1590865162
Nova Audio Books April 1999 Abridged 1567402968
REVIEWS
[Jack Reacher] is, quite simply, the best companion any woman could have on a dangerous journey.
I was turning the pages so quickly in an effort to keep up with the twists and turns of the fastest plot I've come across in ages. For this novel really is what most publishers claim all their thrillers are: it's unputdownable. The action is so fast there's hardly time to breathe and the whole ends with a nailbiting race against time to save thousands of innocent people from a brutal mass murderer. This is a truly brilliant romp of a book with a real feel-good factor.
—Broadway Ham & High
An engrossing tale of shoot-outs and deceptions, big bangs and big bluffs—with a taste of romance thrown in—winds its way to a spellbinding end. With its fast-moving plot and a body count even higher than Killing Floor, Child proves he is worth of being ranked alongside the very best of American thriller writers. The strange thing is: he's English—you'd never know it.
—Bradford
Jack Reacher is an ex-military policeman, the sort who meets terror with a shrug, tragedy with the tiniest flick of jaw-muscle and copes with hours of brutal confinement by doing intricate mental arithmetic.
—Sunday Express
Die Trying brings back the redoubtable yet romantic hero Jack Reacher, whose fast-paced misadventure begins on a bright summer Chicago street... Cunning and explosive, it's a thumping good read.
—Time Out Magazine
This tightly plotted thriller has extraordinary detail and a hero who's likeable despite his tough, cocky, been-there-got-the-T-shirt attitude.
—Newport
