Product Description

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher returns in a gutsy novel of heart- stopping action...

When a mysterious woman is kidnapped by a politically motivated fringe group and taken to their compound, Jack Reacher must help her escape with her life--from the inside out...

"Tough, elegant and thoughtful."--Robert B. Parker

"Opens with a bang."-- Chicago Tribune

"Engrossing." --Rocky Mountain News

"Riveting...paced with taut, evocative prose." --Greg Iles, author of Mortal Fear

Lee Child is "a suspense writer to be reckoned with." (Chicago Tribune)

"Sensational."--Tom Savage, author of The Inheritance

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3789 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-28
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.21" h x 5.10" w x 6.87" l, .72 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 448 pages

From Amazon.com
Television writer Lee Child's otherwise riveting first thriller, Killing Floor, was criticized by some reviewers because of an unconvincing coincidence at its center. Child addresses that problem in his second book--and thumbs his nose at those reviewers--by having his hero, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher, just happen to be walking by a Chicago dry cleaner when an attractive young FBI agent named Holly Johnson comes out carrying nine expensive outfits and a crutch to support her soccer-injured knee. As Holly stumbles, Reacher grabs her and her garments--which gets him kidnapped along with her by a trio of very determined badguys. "He had no problem with how he had gotten grabbed up in the first place," Child writes. "Just a freak of chance had put him alongside Holly Johnson at the exact time the snatch was going down. He was comfortable with that. He understood freak chances. Life was built out of freak chances, however much people would like to pretend otherwise." Lucky for Holly--whose father just happens to be an Army general and current head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, thus making her a tempting target for a bunch of Montana-based extremists--Reacher still has all the skills and strengths associated with his former occupation. And Child still knows how to write scenes of violent action better than virtually anyone else around. --Dick Adler

From Library Journal
Jack Reacher is in both the wrong and the right place at the same time when FBI Special Agent and daughter of the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Holly Johnson is abducted from a Chicago street. It is the wrong place because Reacher, a former army major drifting around the country, is kidnapped as well. It is the right place because only he has the instincts to foil the complex, deadly plan of the kidnappers, a Montana militia group headed by a charismatic, brilliant, but psychotic leader. Child's tale, very well read by Dick Hill, engrossingly portrays Reacher's efforts to manipulate the captors; the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of the FBI, the army, and the White House; and the many unexpected roadblocks thrown in his path. Child devotes too much time, however, to the predictable rantings of the militia. Recommended for public libraries.?Michael Adams, CUNY Graduate Ctr., New York
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
Listening to the voice of Dick Hill, one doesn't doubt that the powerful Jack Reacher has just retired from the Military Police. He booms as he reluctantly relates the winning of dozens of "damn medals" while he and fellow kidnap victim Holly get acquainted. Hill seems strained in the female voice, so Reacher is more drawn to Holly than the listener can be. He does far better at giving the overweight militia commander a high-pitched, whiny voice listeners can despise. Add FBI agents, politicians and cult members and a gripping crisis created by Child and Hill. R.N. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine