Lee Child

Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 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…

Without Fail: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2003 Barry-Novel nominee
• 2002 Steel Dagger shortlist
• Score: 12.53

With each new book, more and more join the chorus of praise for “one of the most original and daring heroes in suspense fiction” (The Providence Journal-Bulletin), Lee Child’s ex-military cop Jack Reacher.

In Without Fail, Reacher is approached by a Secret Service agent who needs a favor. “I want to hire you to assassinate the Vice President of the United States,” she asks. She is the newly appointed head of the VP’s security detail and wants Reacher to try to penetrate her team’s shield. He has the skills and the stealth, and no one knows him.…

The Enemy: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2005 Barry-Novel winner
• Score: 10.55

Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is a turning point. One case. One messy, tangled case that can shatter a career. Turn a lawman into a renegade. And make him question words like honor, valor, and duty. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.

New Year’s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The world is changing. And in a North Carolina “hot-sheets” motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it.…

Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2008 Anthony-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.58

From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night…. In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex–army investigators is being hunted down one by one…. And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher—soldier, cop, hero—is pulled out of his wandering life by a code that few other people could understand. From the first shocking scenes in Lee Child’s explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged like a knife into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends…and is on its way to something even worse.

One Shot: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2006 Macavity-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.56

Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, from the world he lives in—no phone, no address, no commitments–ex–military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, Reacher’s arrival will change everything—about a case that isn’t what it seems, about lives tangled in baffling ways, about a killer who missed one shot–and by doing…

Persuader: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2003 Steel Dagger shortlist
• Score: 6.53

Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner.

An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments.

And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever.

But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished business.

Ten years ago, a key investigation went sour and someone got away with murder. Now a…

Running Blind: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

• 2001 Barry-Novel nominee
• Score: 6.51

People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Suppose you knew the winning numbers for the lottery. What would you do? You would run to the store. You would mark the numbers on the play card. And you would win. Same for the stock market. Same for basketball or the horses or anything. Same for killing people…

So begins Running Blind, the electrifying new novel in the acclaimed series featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher.

Women are dying. Women who have nothing in common except the fact they once worked for the…