He laid him back, squealing and gasping and writhing on the dull paintwork, then turned to the other three guys. In the town's fading motel bar he overhears a drunk doctor's refusal to attend a victim of domestic abuse. This work is a crossover between the Jack Reacher and Butterfield Institute series, the latter with M. High Heat" with the American paperback and Kindle editions of Never Go Back, "Everyone Talks" with the UK edition of Never Go Back, "Not a Drill" with the American paperback of Personal, and "The Fourth Man" with the Australian paperback of Past Tense. The Belfast Telegraph on the Jack Reacher books: "2012 marks a landmark year for Lee Child, whose Jack Reacher thrillers have now sold in excess of 60 million copies worldwide.

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He targets a quartet of high-powered Army political liaison officers—all of them fast-track women on their way to the top. On 14 November 2018, Child announced that he made a deal with Skydance Television and Paramount Television to produce a Jack Reacher series based on Child's novels. He finds out that she is attorney Jodie Garber, daughter of General Leon Garber, Reacher's recently deceased mentor and surrogate father in the Army. Reacher and the woman are thrown into a dark van and taken 2,000 miles across America, completely unaware why they were kidnapped and where they are going.

Walking along the street, Reacher sees Francis Xavier Quinn, a man who should be dead, as he was responsible for the murder of two of Reacher's colleagues ten years ago. Reacher, enlisting the help of an ex-FBI private investigator, uncovers clues that might lead to a rescue, learning about the director's mysterious past in the process.

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It seemed better that he exited the stage while the books were still hitting the bestseller list on the strength of the Lee Child name than to turn out bad ones. Reacher is tasked with finding out the person responsible for taking a long-distance shot at the French President, one of the suspects being a man Reacher tracked down once and put in jail sixteen years back for murder.It is said one of his novels featuring his hero Jack Reacher is sold somewhere in the world every nine seconds. According to his bosses, it's a zero-danger mission, but Reacher knows that things are rarely what they seem.

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Son of Sam couldn't see Chrissie and leaves, but not before Reacher gets a good look at his posture and mannerisms. In the introduction to the short story "Good and Valuable Consideration," it is mentioned that while creating his "Nick Heller" series character, Joseph Finder borrowed many cues from the Jack Reacher series. And he's about to find a big one, on a deserted Arizona road, where a Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. So, when I had the opportunity to snag an advance copy of Better Off Dead from the publisher, I jumped at the chance.This story was also included as a small book with the Blu-ray release of the movie Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, released February 2017 in the US. And he’s about to find a big one, on a deserted road in Arizona, where a car has crashed into the only tree for miles around. Yet all of this—plausible plot or not, Pulitzer-level prose or not—won't mean much to readers just looking for an exciting escape.