Annal:1998 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
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Results of the Anthony Award in the year 1998. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel
- 1998 Anthony-1st Novel winner
- 1998 Barry-1st Novel winner
- 1998 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- Score: 26.48
From its chilling opening page, you know all is not well in Margrave, Georgia. The sleepy, forgotten town hasn’t seen a crime in decades, but within the span of three days it witnesses events that leave everyone stunned.
An unidentified man is found beaten and shot to death on a lonely country road. The police chief and his wife are butchered on a quiet Sunday morning. Then a bank executive disappears from his home, leaving his keys on the table and his wife frozen with fear. The easiest suspect is Jack Reacher—an outsider, a man just passing through. But Reacher is not just any drifter. He is a tough ex-military policeman, trained to think fast and act faster. He has lived with and hunted the worst: the hard men of the American military gone bad. When authorities learn the first victim was someone from Reacher’s past, and he cannot convince them of his innocence, his patient self-defense becomes a raging crusade of revenge.
With two cops who believe in him—a thoughtful black detective and a woman named Roscoe—he closes in on a ruthless conspiracy hiding behind Margrave’s…
