A 2011 World Book Night selection.

 Meet Jack Reacher.  If you are a woman you’ll fall in love, if a man you’ll want to emulate him – he’s great.  He’s a tough, ex-military cop of no fixed address and strangely you’ll feel you need to get to know him – which is great for there are a lot of books - right up to the latest, 61 Hours, with its most extraordinary ending.  So meet Jack Reacher and then really get to know him.  Killing Floor is the first book in the phenomenal bestselling Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. It introduces Reacher for the first time, as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode.  Trained to think fast and act faster, he is the perfect action hero for men and women alike.

A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...

‘I fell in love with Jack Reacher as a character when I first read early material of this very first thriller by Lee Child – here was a hero for our time,  trained to think fast and act faster, a strong, silent, pragmatic and ruthless righter of wrongs who also had his tender side and was therefore equally appealing to a woman like me as he was to my male colleagues: although the proofs of every new Reacher thriller are instantly snapped up, this first book remains  a favourite of so many people at Transworld for the past fifteen years, and I can honestly say that everyone who works here takes pride in the way Lee has since broken through into the superleague of thriller writers.' Marianne Velmans, Publishing Director at Transworld

Our Editorial Guru, Sarah Broadhurst, has suggested others book and authors that would be perfect for you to read next or to pass on the recommendation - so your gift will keep on giving enjoyment. Her selections for this title are:  Stephen Leather, Gerald Seymour, Tom Cain.

Synopsis

Margrave is a no-account little town in Georgia.  Jack Reacher jumps off a bus and walks fourteen miles in the rain to reach it, an arbitrary detour in search of a dead guitar player.

But Margrave has just had its first homicide in thirty years. And Reacher is the only stranger in town.  So he is thrown into jail.  As the body count mounts, only one thing is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

Reviews

‘Lee Child's tough but humane Jack Reacher is the coolest continuing series character now on offer’ - Stephen King

‘Races along, spattering blood and body parts on the way’ – Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers.  His novels consistently achieve the number one slot in hardback and paperback on bestsellers lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and are translated into over forty languages.  His debut novel, Killing Floor, was written after he was made redundant from his television job in Manchester, and introduced his much-admired maverick hero, the former military cop Jack Reacher.  Born in Coventry, he now lives in America. More books by this author Author 'Like for Like' recommendation