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Jack Reacher arrives in a small American town called Despair, adjacent to Hope! Made welcome by the powers in charge, he joins up with a woman police officer to find out what is happening at a large metal recycling plant outside town … and then the fun begins. Jack Reacher is ace, charismatic and astute with a strong moral sense, a very likeable hero indeed. If you haven’t met him yet you must. Men want to emulate him, women fall for him. I have never met anyone who doesn’t love him. If you are new to him (so what kept you so long?) then be warned, you’ll get hooked and you have eleven backlist titles to indulge in.
Comparison: Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen Leather.
Reviewed by Sarah BroadhurstSarah Broadhurst spent her early working life in the book trade in both retail and wholesale until the arrival of children forced her to look for freelance work she could do from…
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Two small towns in 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 redneck deputies who want to run him
out of town.
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Two small towns in 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 redneck deputies who want to run him
out of town.
Mistake. They're picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a
big man, and he's in shape. No job, no address, no baggage. Nothing, except
bloody-minded curiosity. What is the secret the locals seem so keen to
hide?
A hard man is good to find. Ex-military cop Reacher is today's most
addictive hero. Now he pulls on a tiny loose thread, to unravel conspiracies
that expose the most shocking truths. Because, after all, Jack Reacher has
nothing to lose.
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'A cert to be a number one bestseller.....A version of western, of course: the drifter who comes to town, sorts out the bad guys, and moves on. ..He makes what he does seem simple. If it is, though, it's strange that nobody else has managed it so well.' David Sexton, Evening Standard
'Gripping and addictive...Reacher's stripped-down life is echoed by Lee Child's lean and spare prose.' Irish Independent
'A new Jack Reacher novel arrives as the year's first red-hot beach book...the success of these books rests partly on the big, hulking shoulders of their charismatic hero...one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape.' New York Times
'Follows in the great Philip Marlowe pulp tradition,nuanced with a dash of Rambo and Bruce Willis...Reacher is a moody, modern outsider figure, one of the great antiheroes...a liberal intellectual with machismo, and arms the size of Popeye's.' Independent
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About Lee Child
Lee Child is one of the world’s leading thriller writers. He was born in Coventry, raised in Birmingham, and now lives in New York. It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. His books consistently achieve the number-one slot on bestseller lists around the world and have sold over one hundred million copies. Lee is the recipient of many awards including Author of the Year at the 2019 British Book Awards. He was appointed CBE in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours.
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The 2013 Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger was awarded to Lee Child.
Members of the CWA vote for the Diamond Dagger award-winner, which celebrates an author with an outstanding body of work in crime fiction.
Peter James, chair of the CWA, said: “I am delighted that the CWA has chosen Lee Child as this year's recipient. Lee is one of the few British crime-thriller authors to have become a global brand name; he is also an extremely charming and open person and a tireless promoter of our genre.”
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